Re:Did Linux kill commercial Unix?
by simonblack on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:27PM
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Judging purely from my own experience, I would say yes. I was a Solaris user from about 1995 until about 2000.
Around about 2000-2001, I bought a new computer with a large (for that time) hard drive that was (IIRC) about 30 gigs. I found that my Solaris x86 was not able to access the whole of that disk due to disk capacity limits in its configuration.
On the off chance, I also tried installing Linux. It had no problems at all in working with that large(!) disk.
(Note: I am trying to remember back roughly 20 years, I may have some numbers wrong.)
That was when I put my Solaris away, ending 10 years of using several commercial unices, and moving across to Linux.
Around about 2000-2001, I bought a new computer with a large (for that time) hard drive that was (IIRC) about 30 gigs. I found that my Solaris x86 was not able to access the whole of that disk due to disk capacity limits in its configuration.
On the off chance, I also tried installing Linux. It had no problems at all in working with that large(!) disk.
(Note: I am trying to remember back roughly 20 years, I may have some numbers wrong.)
That was when I put my Solaris away, ending 10 years of using several commercial unices, and moving across to Linux.