Unix is literally the most important operating system (specification) family on the planet. Even bigger than M$ Windows. You’ve got all the Android phones, all the Apple iPhones, macOS, FreeBSD and all the GNU/Linux distributions. Unix-like installed base is by far the largest of any on the planet.
This was most likely posted by a kid who just thinks Unix is “old” Linux and doesn’t understand the roots of what it actually means in terms of computing.
I haven’t yet read the article, but it may well be a comparison for which Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris can be united under the Unix umbrella as systems with monolithic kernels and similar conventions. Of course FreeBSD is much cooler than Linux and Solaris is much cooler than FreeBSD, but we get what we get.
Unix? Come on, really?
What is Unix in 2024?
Unix is literally the most important operating system (specification) family on the planet. Even bigger than M$ Windows. You’ve got all the Android phones, all the Apple iPhones, macOS, FreeBSD and all the GNU/Linux distributions. Unix-like installed base is by far the largest of any on the planet.
Don’t forget… The internet basically runs on it too :D
…and Netflix… And… And… and…
This was most likely posted by a kid who just thinks Unix is “old” Linux and doesn’t understand the roots of what it actually means in terms of computing.
I haven’t yet read the article, but it may well be a comparison for which Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris can be united under the Unix umbrella as systems with monolithic kernels and similar conventions. Of course FreeBSD is much cooler than Linux and Solaris is much cooler than FreeBSD, but we get what we get.
I think any modern unix-like operation systems: bsd based,linux based,haiku,minix and other else hundred branches.
dont forget darwin aka MacOS
And iOS, making Unix one of the largest operating systems on the planet
Basically mac os and ios is actually same thing both use darwin kernel same graphical stack.
That would be Minix 3, I think, because it runs in (yes, in) all modern Intel CPU’s.
and with one word, the conversation becomes deeply political.
Oh yeah, I forgot about management engine
One of?
I’m going with the largest, by a huge margin. Unix and it’s descendents run everything. Even MS uses it for some things.
Unix has been around since 1969-ish, that’s 20 years before NT.
And I’ve use NT every day since it came out.
I don’t consider Linux based os’s Unix, which takes most servers and android out of the running. Unix might still be bigger, idk