Any unix people here?

[BurnItDwn]

to all the people who say Unix is not Linux, go learn a real Unix blablabla ....
You are complely correct, they are like apples and oranges.

However, if you learn one, you can pick up on the others with great ease. Comparing an Apple to an Orange is a lot easier then comparing an Apple to a mutant Porcupine.

Kinda like with high level languages, if you learn C you can easily learn Fortran and/or Pascal ... etc. They are different but there are a lot of similarities.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Kinda like with high level languages, if you learn C you can easily learn Fortran and/or Pascal ... etc. They are different but there are a lot of similarities.

Naturally. But if you get a job as a C programmer, and you want to do some practicing at home, you would probably want to practice in C and not Java, even though it's similar.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Kinda like with high level languages, if you learn C you can easily learn Fortran and/or Pascal ... etc. They are different but there are a lot of similarities.

Naturally. But if you get a job as a C programmer, and you want to do some practicing at home, you would probably want to practice in C and not Java, even though it's similar.

Very true ...

But some things, like getting used to ksh, getting used to vi, etc ... can be done in pretty much all flavors or linux & unix.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: fs5
linux != unix

its simular on user level. I used Fedora at work Solaris X-86 at school. When I am using command line I cant tell the difference unless I am installing software.

 

[freegeeks]

in the end its always the same

1)its a friggin file in /etc you have to edit to get something working ...
2)if you use man, go directly to the examples, don't bother with all the other crap

 

[ultimatebob]

What version of "unix" are you using? Solaris? AIX? FreeBSD? HP-UX? Something else?