Oh great and powerful wizards of Unix!

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Oh great and powerful wizards of Unix!

While looking at the computer magazine sections of several major book stores, I noticed several rags about Linux, but not one Unix.
This is indeed a puzzlement, why is this so, oh mighty ones?

Posted on Oct 17, 2005 1:49 PM

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Oct 17, 2005 2:35 PM in response to danuke

Perhaps it is because, for some *puzzling* reason, no one can make a buck advertising in a magazine that has "Unix" in its title.

"What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." (I bard that quote from some other guy.)

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Bill Scott

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Oct 17, 2005 2:46 PM in response to danuke

It has never occurred to me to read computer magazines. They seem to have as much to do with computing as Time and Newsweek have to do with what is actually going on in the world....

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Oct 17, 2005 2:53 PM in response to Bill Scott

Bill,

"ruka moyet ruki", as they say in Russia (but which I have not the glyphs to render properly) - a good way to describe "what is actually going on in the world...". It is a bon mot about the way that one hand washes the other.

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reese_

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Oct 17, 2005 4:58 PM in response to danuke

Also has some to do with the fact that Unix is owned and protected by copywrite law and Linux has a distinctly different legal position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

http://www.linux.org/
http://www.unix.org/

Happy reading 🙂

Reese

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Answer 5

Oct 17, 2005 5:45 PM in response to danuke

danuke,

I used to read this one, but they never had any articles on Irix.
It used to have some interesting articles.

Sys Admin, the Journal for UNIX and Linux systems administrators

Andy

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Bill Scott

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Oct 17, 2005 6:03 PM in response to danuke

they never had any articles on Irix

There is only so much profanity one can write before censorship takes over.

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reese_

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Oct 17, 2005 6:07 PM in response to Bill Scott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars

To borrow a line oft used in reference to another OS. "It keeps us employed." (relace keeps with kept)

Reese

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Answer 8

Oct 17, 2005 6:51 PM in response to Bill Scott

🙂

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danuke Author

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Oct 18, 2005 5:59 AM in response to reese_

me not understand on great wiz uh, erd. there are eleventytwelve different books on unix, so why not mags? I, myself, am having a few of those books, and currently am enjoying Raymond's The Art of UNIX Programming for a pleasant read.

However, it is not that I was wanting a rag, as much as wondering why? Legal eh? I shall have to chase down the links, anchors etc to look at this legal thingy.

trav

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danuke Author

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Oct 18, 2005 6:13 AM in response to Nils C. Anderson

Hi Nils,
Interesting,and over my head, but UNIX Review looks good.
thanks,
trav

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danuke Author

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Oct 18, 2005 6:17 AM in response to Daniel Stein

Morning,
Hummmm
on the one hand ? but on the other hand ?

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danuke Author

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Oct 18, 2005 6:25 AM in response to Bill Scott

ratz!!!
b Unix, Linux, Redhat, Perl, C(whatever), Gnu, . . . Irix??

and the new iMac G5?
more to look up?
will it never end?

Way back in the 60s, 19 that is,18 too for all I know, we had an unpleasant saying that ended with ". . . and let God sort them out."

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reese_

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Oct 18, 2005 11:46 AM in response to danuke

". . . and let God sort them out."

There is a rather large OS developer who would whole enthusiastically agree.
The major problem with choice is you have to make a decision. You appear to have decided on Mac OS (at least in part). This choir would support that decision.
Your topic asked an interesting question. I learned quite a bit in the links I found. Hope to reed more.

Reese

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danuke Author

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Oct 18, 2005 11:57 AM in response to reese_

Well, Apple and I go back to when I got out of the Navy in the ought and seveties and the Apple II. When men were men and floppies - flopped; if you had enough brews, stayed up long enough, and squinted real hard you could see the anykey.
two pong paddle joy sticks, and Wizardry, Adventure and the real Wolfenstein.
kinda miss that sometimes. Now I am finding some of that on Unix, and a whole lot more. whut fun eh? It's almost like finding a mint stash of the entire series of Creative Computing mags along with a few dozen Bionic Toad T-Shirts.

trav

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danuke Author

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Oct 18, 2005 12:08 PM in response to reese_

"I learned quite a bit in the links I found. Hope to reed more."

Wow, I actually did something . . . good?
;^)
trav

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