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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    While much of the Unix family has died, (especially in the System V family) there is an old one surviving and a few new additions being added.

    Solaris is still alive, and from it was forked illumos. Meanwhile BSD has spawned its own family made up of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD, but also MacOS and Playstation. Other systems that appeared without any prior history like Linux include Redox OS and SerenityOS.

    With that being said, the Unix family has noticeably shrunk, and the System V family is very much in danger of going extinct, with only the Solaris branch looking like it will survive the next year. If the System V family goes extinct, it would make the BSD family the only surviving branch descended from the original Unix.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Oh, and Minix still exists.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    No love for temple os 😒

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Temple OS wasn't Unix-like.

    Also it gets way too much attention as is IMO. Its the only hobby OS project people know about, purely because 4chan turned its mentally ill creator into a meme.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    OP rewrite this meme...right now! TempleOS or ban.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

    Actually Solaris is still squirming while the first shovels of dirt are being heaped on.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Redox OS is a little baby sprout of grass on the very right

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Which is BSD with a paint job and kiddy gloves

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    Aww, I miss Solaris.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I used Solaris today. I've never been on BSD.

    If you lament the death of AT&T Unix, blame IBM.

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

    Out of all those I only ever used Solaris and the most polite thing I can say is: I have no nostalgia for that time.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Qnx Unix still technically kicking

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    They may be dead, but we still have some amazing alternative OS's that exist that, as far as I'm aware, are still being updated. First thing that came to my mind was AROS ( Amiga Research Operating System that had to change the name to AROS Research Operating System ).

    I personally don't use it since I don't use Amiga software, but it's still really cool. Under no circumstances would I recommend it as a daily driver because any software based around Amiga is purely hobby at this point, but it's still cool to check out.

    [–] [email protected] 99 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Linux was not muscled like that in 1991 - it's first, barebones kernel was released in September of that year.

    I remember installing Linux on a 90MHz 486 in the mid 90s and it barely ran X server with a simple window manager. And if the machine was turned off while Linux was running, you might not be able to boot again.

    Linux now, however, is unrecognizeably better.

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I remember someone here made a detailed list of how lots of the early linux FOSS stuff was essentially ripoff of unix software lol. I think XFCE was originally a knockoff of CDE or something with XForms. Now it's the de facto performance DE and the default on Kali.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

    KDE’s name was a direct rip off of CDE’s name

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

    XFCE's old panel was a distinct mimic of CDE's. I liked it..

    But now CDE is open source and NsCDE gives you the same look with a highly customised fvwm config if you don't want to stick to the Motif universe.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

    2030: Plan9

    [–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I liked OpenSolaris, you could order a free CD from their website and they’d post it, even internationally.

    [–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I still have one of those! πŸ˜†

    Didn't use it too much, tho. Never installed it on bare metal, only in a VM, and back in those days I was in my distro-hopping phase (I was discovering Arch), so I tested it and quickly forgot about it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    Thanks for digging it up and sharing the photo! It's nostalgic seeing this

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

    We ran OpenSolaris as our NFS server for several years on ASUS Xeon servers. zfs was a big part of that. Ilumos is still alive and keeping the OpenSolaris world going in a small way.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

    Ubuntu did that too for a while. I had a kubuntu cd.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    but why was mematic used if GIMP was used?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

    Probably the format had the watermark already baked in

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Why are there only five headstones and two characters in the second panel when there are eight operating systems in the first panel?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    GNU Hurd is technically alive, just horribly obsolete.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

    The ghost doesn't get a gravestone

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

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