Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15
by umanwizard on Thursday April 10, 2025 @01:09PM
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What exactly do you mean by "UNIX"? Commercial UNIX vendors other than Apple have basically a rounding error from 0% of market share.
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Yet IBM, Oracle, HP and POSIX RTOS vendors keep enough customers happy with that rouding error.
Are you from 2001? Sorry, but Apple at servers' market it's non-existent. RH and Canonical make tons of money thanks to being THE platform of the ubiquituous internet. Support is not free.
Are you calling Linux a UNIX? I mean GNU/Linux is certainly a UNIX-like system, but aren't "UNIXes" typically used to refer to operating systems which stem from AT&T's UNIX, such as the BSDs and Solaris and HP-UX and the like? GNU's Not UNIX after all
Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15
by johnisgood on Thursday April 10, 2025 @04:16PM
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I have good memories associated with OpenSolaris. Oracle ruined it.
I have not tried OpenIndiana, however.
GNU isn't Unix as NT isn't Win32.
Gnu promotes Unix, but also promotes Emacs on top. NT can run Win32 on top of it, but there's far more than Win32 with NT systems. Just get ReactOS and open the NT object explorer under explorer.exe.
Far more advanced than Windows 95/98.
Win32 is an API, while UNIX, NT and GNU are all operating systems made by AT&T, Microsoft and the GNU Project respectively. I agree that the GNU operating system isn't the UNIX operating system, and I agree that the NT operating system isn't the Win32 API, but I have no idea what comparison you're trying to draw.
It almost sounds like you think UNIX is an API like Win32, and that GNU is an operating system which "implements UNIX" like NT is an operating system which "implements Win32"? Are you confusing UNIX with POSIX?
GNU was made to replace UNIX, not to promote it.
No, I'm not confusing Unix with POSIX, but POSIX today superseded old Unix.
What I mean both NT and GNU enhanced and modernized their own subsystems.
Even OpenBSD is not as 'pure Unix' as Unix V7.
Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15
by umanwizard on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:31PM
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Gnu/Linux and UNIX are not the same thing. Yes I understand that RHEL and Ubuntu are popular.
Apple is not a UNIX vendor. They checked off enough of a compliance list to pass in the legal and marketing sense, but in any real practical sense it's not usable as a UNIX system. It's not designed to serve anything. Most of it is locked down and proprietary. No headless operation, no native package manager, root is neutered... and so on. It's not UNIX.