This is Interesting: Free IT Magazines Home > Archive > Unix questions > July 2004 > How many distros anyway? You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here] 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 wrote: > 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. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 jpd 2004-07-04, 5:52 pm On 2004-07-04, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 4 Jul 2004 18:46:28 -0000 > 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. -- j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l . Jerry Feldman 2004-07-04, 5:52 pm On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:03:21 +0000 (UTC) jpd wrote: > On 2004-07-04, Jerry Feldman 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). -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 Sponsored Links Free braindumps | Software forum | Database administration forum Copyright 2003 - 2006 webservertalk.com