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reply to stateq2

Re: [Poll] *nix OS of choice

said by stateq2:

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said by Johnny:

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said by jcallari:

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Ah... Mac OS X is doing well.

John

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We always win these things.

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you do understand that linux is winning....don't you?

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said by Johnny:

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said by stateq2:

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said by Johnny:

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said by jcallari:

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Ah... Mac OS X is doing well. :)

John

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We always win these things.

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you do understand that linux is winning....don't you?

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That's like adding Nader's votes to Gore's. We could list Mac OS X Server, Darwin for PPC, and Darwin for x86 also, and add those together....

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All linux distrobutions == Linux

therefore....

Linux == currently leading this poll

reply to Liontaur
Try this... :-)

#!/usr/bin/ksh
print "Which is your favorite *nix OS? Hint - Solaris"
read ans
while [ $ans != "Solaris" ] ;do
  print "$ans Sucks! Try again..."
  read ans
done
print "Good, you are learning."

reply to stateq2

said by stateq2:

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said by Johnny:

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said by stateq2:

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said by Johnny:

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said by jcallari:

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Ah... Mac OS X is doing well.

John

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We always win these things.

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you do understand that linux is winning....don't you?

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That's like adding Nader's votes to Gore's. We could list Mac OS X Server, Darwin for PPC, and Darwin for x86 also, and add those together....

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the people that own the versions you listed, voted for Mac OS X/Darwin....in other words, they are already added together. I've used nearly every linux distrobution listed, and 99% of teh time, the only major difference is w/ the package management....whatever distro you use, linux is linux. I don't know why you fail to see that. Hell, gentoo alone has alomost 50% of the osx votes. there are HUNDREDS of LINUX distrobutions. the reason for that is because it's FREE and OPEN. people have the freedom to cutomize it w/ scripts and such, but at the end of the day, we all can compile a LINUX kernel, and use it. here's some info that many fanboys don't(refuse to) realize....

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netwosix forgotten

reply to orinoco

said by orinoco:

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It is somewhat surprising how RedHat/Fedora is no longer the dominant distribution here. It seems that Gentoo/Slackware have replaced RedHat/Mandrake as the majority.

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reply to Liontaur
Solaris cause it pays the bills!

said by homergreg:

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Solaris cause it pays the bills!

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In a few years I'll be voting for AIX because it will pay the bills! I just dumped my knowledge of a very, very ancient Raytheon mainframe and packed in Solaris between my ears, going as far as getting my SCSA, then my work decides that they are going to dump Sun and go with IBM on their next system!
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Yeah. We had a few customers decide to go the AIX route. Should be interesting. IBM is supposedly looking to phase out AIX in favor of Linux - morphing the one into the other.

Then again, SGI thought they would combine IRIX and UniCOS into something called Nexis. That never really panned out. Wonder if they'll merge IRIX and Linux. They already port a lot of IRIX code into Linux...

-tom
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"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't."
"That's only 2 types of people, moron"

reply to Microsoft Fanboy
That would fall under other if you must make a selection on the poll.
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reply to DA OH


Okay,

#!/usr/bin/ksh
print "Which is your favorite *nix OS? Hint - Solaris"
read ans
while [ $ans != "Solaris" ] ;do
print "$ans Sucks! Try again..."
read ans
done
print "Good, you are learning."



/bin/ksh: syntax error: `do' unexpected

I always do the unexpected, but why does this say this?

I am normally regarded well for my syntax...

-M
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If the nurturing teats of justice must be covered because she will suckle us with the sweet milk of compassion, what then is law?

said by yazdzik:

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Okay,

#!/usr/bin/ksh
print "Which is your favorite *nix OS? Hint - Solaris"
read ans
while [ $ans != "Solaris" ] ;do
print "$ans Sucks! Try again..."
read ans
done
print "Good, you are learning."



/bin/ksh: syntax error: `do' unexpected

I always do the unexpected, but why does this say this?

I am normally regarded well for my syntax...

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Thanks, tom. RIght as always, it was a case of case.
Best,
M

reply to nixen

said by nixen:

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I think you typo'ed something. That code block works perfectly fine for me. Well, perfectly fine for the exception of being case sensitive. I'm prone to fits of laziness. If I can't be bothered to capitalize Solaris, this code block will give me the same answer for "solaris" as it does for "Linux" (etc.) It should probably be made case insensitive.

-tom

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#!/usr/bin/ksh
print "Which is your favorite *nix OS? Hint - Solaris"
read ans
ans=`echo $ans | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
while [ $ans != "solaris" ] ;do
  print "$ans Sucks! Try again..."
  read ans
  ans=`echo $ans | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
done
print "Good, you are learning."

reply to Liontaur

Re: [Poll] *nix OS of choice(OT)

reply to Liontaur

Re: [Poll] *nix OS of choice

Someone posted a link in the Mac forum.
I think many of the ATM people ask UNIX questions in the ATM forum since there are UNIX people there as well.

reply to Liontaur
OS-X is my favourite, too bad I can't afford a Mac at the moment

The favourite that I use is FreeBSD

Maybe a little OT but what is darwin like under the covers. What type of file system hierarchy does it utilize? Is there a package management system? Are there binaries available? Does darwin follow the base system philosophy of the bsd's?