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Dang, that was like Greek to me, but I tried. (I'm not very Computer literate beyond operating programs) Reminds me of some simulator work I did years ago, on a Silicon Graphics box sporting Unix. Most stable 3D type work I ever did. Flawless (same type programs you'd use to make todays games). Granted the SG was very spendy at something like 80K per computer. Lockheed had banks of them in a C-130 based gunship trainer. Unix was a pain in the butt to figure out how to do some things, but I did appreciate the comparative stability, at the time. I wonder how it compares to windows, etc. these days.
 
MadMonk said:
Dang, that was like Greek to me, but I tried. (I'm not very Computer literate beyond operating programs) Reminds me of some simulator work I did years ago, on a Silicon Graphics box sporting Unix. Most stable 3D type work I ever did. Flawless (same type programs you'd use to make todays games). Granted the SG was very spendy at something like 80K per computer. Lockheed had banks of them in a C-130 based gunship trainer. Unix was a pain in the butt to figure out how to do some things, but I did appreciate the comparative stability, at the time. I wonder how it compares to windows, etc. these days.
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If Unix drove a car, it would be crashless.
 
vortex said:
How does it compare to Linux?
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It is another variant except that there is no original UNIX code, it was all rewritten. I do like the ZFS file system though.
 
AVB said:
It is another variant except that there is no original UNIX code, it was all rewritten. I do like the ZFS file system though.
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I just reformatted an old laptop to play with a few OS' so I'll give it a try. Thanks!
 
I've been playing around with a Linux variant called Ubuntu, for quite some time. Very nice. When I retire and don't HAVE to use Windows for my work, I might try to totally switch to Linux.
 
George Scott said:
I've been playing around with a Linux variant called Ubuntu, for quite some time. Very nice. When I retire and don't HAVE to use Windows for my work, I might try to totally switch to Linux.
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I like the GUI on Ubuntu.
Feels like winders, but is smooth and error free.
 
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