Unix, 40 years anniversary, already

frenchn00b · 12-16-2009, 11:34 AM

http://www.flickr.com/groups/unix/

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Happy 40th Birthday UNIX! Celebrate 40 years of the UNIX system and win a classic license plate http://bit.ly/1wsWYl #unix@40 - http://twitter.com/villega...

, would you be interested?

UNIX or LINUX?
- well, Debian !

frenchn00b · 12-16-2009, 11:37 AM

LINUX licence plate is better, no?
- How can we get those ones : gnu linux

- or Debian but it doesnt exist on the market.

smeezekitty · 12-18-2009, 08:10 PM

Lol @ 40 years.

frenchn00b · 12-19-2009, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by smeezekitty

Lol @ 40 years.

UNIX is the earliest beginning of slackware. Come on

Slack 1.0, Slack 3.1 ... was long time

I recall:

Code:

chmod +S myfile

unSpawn · 12-19-2009, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by frenchn00b

UNIX is the earliest beginning of slackware.

Sure I can understand if ppl like to keep up the whole "cool by association" myth but I'd thought the recent major UNIX thread already established that Linux by design, standards, philosophy ain't UNIX?..

brianL · 12-19-2009, 05:56 AM

GNU's Not Unix.

smeezekitty · 12-19-2009, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL

GNU's Not Unix.

Well it is very close. Further, Linux is not officially GNU.

cantab · 12-19-2009, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by unSpawn

Sure I can understand if ppl like to keep up the whole "cool by association" myth but I'd thought the recent major UNIX thread already established that Linux by design, standards, philosophy ain't UNIX?..

On the contrary, designwise Linux and GNU are very much based on Unix.

In the UK, you can't just have any old plate. L1 NUX and L7 NUX both exist, but are not for sale at present. (You also wouldn't be allowed to have them on a car older than 1993; the plate indicates a date, and must not make the car look newer than it is). I don't think there is any way to get an approximation of 'unix' on a UK plate.

sundialsvcs · 12-21-2009, 08:29 PM

(groan...) 40 years, and I have seen all of them and then some.

Suddenly, I feel old. Bleah. Sux.