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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 6, 2011 19:54 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) by nevets
Parent article: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

There were lots of "PC Unix" OS products out there, with hardware requirements pretty close to those of decent Linux servers.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt

Most of them sank without a splash pretty quickly once you could get stable, supported Linux.


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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 5:02 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

One of those was even called Solaris. :)

Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 11:52 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

I remember them trying out SCO's PC Unix, but it had lots of issues, and could not handle what was needed. Eventually, they switched most of the Unix boxes over to Windows (not Linux).

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