At 10:36 AM -0500 11/15/02, William H. Magill wrote:
If you want to develop for Unix(tm), I would recommend using a platform like Tru64 Unix, as it will teach you what Standards really mean. Just because it was developed and runs on Sun, usually means it won't run anywhere else. AND
Not to start a battle. But standards (especially in the Unix space) have never mattered as much as market share. And I've served on my share of standards boards. The main issue is that they seldom specify enough to do anything useful. By the time it's a standard everyone's already using some new technology that isn't a standard yet--and is implemented differently on different platforms. I think one of the big benefits of Open Source has been the resulting defacto standardization of Unix. Sure, you could implement a different variation of the same technology--but why bother.
I do all my Unix development on my Powerbook. It's been a god-send. I can work anywhere, and I get the Mac GUI side of things that I've been using for years, along with all the Unix stuff I've been using for even longer.
Currently, most of my code ends up actually deployed on Linux or FreeBSD systems. Although I intended to migrate my Linux servers to MacOS X eventually--it's just much easier to keep upgraded and backed up.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
