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Author How many distros anyway?

2004-07-04, 5:52 pm

How many distros of Unix exist these days anyway?
Jerry Feldman

2004-07-04, 5:52 pm

On 4 Jul 2004 18:46:28 -0000
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> How many distros of Unix exist these days anyway?

A very quick count I just took shows well over 200.

The major distros, SuSE, Red Hat & Fedora, Mandrake, GenToo, Debian,
Slackware, are fairly stable.

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jpd

2004-07-04, 5:52 pm

On 2004-07-04, Jerry Feldman <gaf-noSPAM@blu.org> wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2004 18:46:28 -0000
><Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
>
> A very quick count I just took shows well over 200.
>
> The major distros, SuSE, Red Hat & Fedora, Mandrake, GenToo, Debian,
> Slackware, are fairly stable.


Except that none of them are unix.


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Jerry Feldman

2004-07-04, 5:52 pm

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:03:21 +0000 (UTC)
jpd <read_the_sig@do.not.spam.it> wrote:

> On 2004-07-04, Jerry Feldman <gaf-noSPAM@blu.org> wrote:
>
> Except that none of them are unix.

That is true.
There is FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD as free Unixes. Then there is Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX, and Irix as major commercial Unix systems.
(There is also SCO, but they are now a pariah of the industry).
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Jerry Feldman <gaf-nospam-at-blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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