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		smcameron on Oct 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD I think of linux as the new SunOS 4.x. I remember back in the day when random crap you got would work fine on SunOS, but was a pain on HP-UX, AIX, or whatever other weird unix you had around. Now linux is like SunOS 4.x was back then.

nineteen999 on Oct 28, 2018 [–]

That's a totally weird way to think of it, since up to SunOS 4.x, it was mostly based on BSD, and afterwards, after being renamed to Solaris, on SysV.

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