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.
I use hpux everyday. Mostly it still runs what it needs to run and the hardware for the most part is a tank so you don’t have to think about it.
When it breaks it’s the most infuriating thing in the world. All the hardware is bespoke and obsolete, old unix is maddening coming from modern Linux, it’s a nightmare but kind of fun at the same time. My only hope that HP will open source it at the end of the year.
SCO died by self inflicted gunshot wounds.
Unfortunately, I have a very large client whose core business app runs on SCO still. They’re coming up on year 10 on their migration attempt.
Let me guess. A aged purpose built program used for something like inventory and accounting. Built with something like cobol or pascel. With a set of specific feature set that they are unable to or unwilling to pay for a updated rewrite?
The only one of these I never used was AIX. My first unix was Unixware.
There are a lot of hobby Unix-like OS’s however. I don’t see the point in most of them, but still.
You also forgot macOS. It’s a shitty “UNIX-certified” OS though.
In a sense, NextStep is the only one of the old Unix vendors to still have a significant install base.
Its a BSD derivat tho.
Irix is missing. It was quite cool at the time. (Well, its desktop was).
AIX is not dead yet.
Actually Solaris is still squirming while the first shovels of dirt are being heaped on.
I liked OpenSolaris, you could order a free CD from their website and they’d post it, even internationally.
I barely got an opportunity to try out Solaris/opensolaris (honestly I don’t remember which) before Oracle got involved. It gave me the impression of being a no nonsense, get shit done workstation OS. It was clean, it had enough frill that anyone could sit down in front of it and start working, but it wasn’t showy. I wasn’t a business person doing business things, and I was really just looking around for a good office suite on a stable OS that I could make it through college with. I really liked the “this is where work gets done” feel of it.
I still have one of those! 😆
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.
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.
Thanks for digging it up and sharing the photo! It’s nostalgic seeing this
they sent us a big box of CDs to the CS department an uni. ran it as a daily driver for a semester.
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Aww, I miss Solaris.
No love for temple os 😢
OP rewrite this meme…right now! TempleOS or ban.
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.
I didn’t realize the pattern
What other hobby operating systems have a cool hook like TempleOS’s religious thing?
Eventually will be just BSD
Bless your heart.
Amen, freebsd crew represent!
And to anybody throwing shade:
BSD is literally the #1 mobile os, and has been for years, even if the kernel has extra chromosomes.
even if the kernel has extra chromosomes.
Okay, that is a hilarious way of saying those forks are back of the short bus “ssssspecial”.
I actually love the theory of the Mach nanokernel, I just also think Apple went their own way with it, defeating the purpose entirely.
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.
Oh, and Minix still exists.
If you have an Intel based system with AMT, you’re running minix on a 486 and probably don’t know it.
I watch a lot of videos to this day from Bryan Cantrill (Oxide computer) and he’s got some wild stories about the forking of illumos and how difficult it was to essentially “save” Solaris. His company uses their own illumos based distro called heliOS on their oxide computer rack.
Where BeOS?
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NeXTSTEP (and therefore, modern macOS) is a BSD.
I spent so much time working with Solaris, in a weird way I kinda miss it
You can still run Illumos/OpenIndiana, driver support will be spotty though
