Re: I was just wondering

Joe Richards [MVP] wrote:

The biggest issues I see with Linux at the moment are GNU which many
corporations are afraid to go near (I work in the Enterprise space and
hear this directly) and the fragmentation in the Linux world which
also scares many people.

The fragmentation issue is a good point. Many of the very senior people in
corporate IT shops can remember getting caught out by the way the UNIX
world fragmented the first time around and (rightly or wrongly) look at
all the distros and arguments over things like KDE vs. Gnome and see it
all happening again.

And telling me "LINUX is not UNIX" as some have done in the past when I've
raised the point is all well and good, but when I can open up a terminal
in Ubuntu and type in 'top' to see which process has hung and then stop
it with 'kill -9' just the same as I can on my Mac, just the same as I
learnt to do on AIX 15 years ago now, I'm thinking it does a good enough
impression of UNIX to bring back those bad memories.


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