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1. 💀💀💀 :0080: c̷̨̢̛̲̼̞̞͓̹͚̗̼͓͚͖͒̔̓̃̈̋̂́̏̆̐̐̈́̉͘͜ȑ̴̫͔͂̌̔̆̓͛͗́͐̍̃́̆ÿ̷̤̺̳̖͖͚͈́̄́͌͒͂͊͗̄̔̚p̶̢̧͇̞̯͍͇̤̖͖̙̫̪͋̏̃̃͗̎͜͝t̶͖̉̽̐̇i̴̭̜̼͖̬̽̀͆̃̓̂̚͝ͅc̸̡͙̪͎̫͚̫̘̱͚͔̫̣̣̒̃̋͜͝ 💀💀💀 :verified: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 07:47:03 JST 💀💀💀 :0080: c̷̨̢̛̲̼̞̞͓̹͚̗̼͓͚͖͒̔̓̃̈̋̂́̏̆̐̐̈́̉͘͜ȑ̴̫͔͂̌̔̆̓͛͗́͐̍̃́̆ÿ̷̤̺̳̖͖͚͈́̄́͌͒͂͊͗̄̔̚p̶̢̧͇̞̯͍͇̤̖͖̙̫̪͋̏̃̃͗̎͜͝t̶͖̉̽̐̇i̴̭̜̼͖̬̽̀͆̃̓̂̚͝ͅc̸̡͙̪͎̫͚̫̘̱͚͔̫̣̣̒̃̋͜͝ 💀💀💀 :verified:
   It didn’t, really. By the time Linux arrived to the scene (late 90s, early 2000s), Unix was already dead.
   • mental meltdown (netdoll@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 07:47:02 JST mental meltdown

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     @newt Yes and no. While the largest part of the decline of commercial Unix was consolidation around the big players (NT, Sun), Linux ate the bottom out of the market from very early on and most of the SysV people eventually made their way over there to the point where in a very real sense it *did* kill every commercial Unix operating on the commodity end of the market (first Coherent and most PC SysV OEMs, then UnixWare, then BSDi and x86 Solaris)
   • 💀💀💀 :0080: c̷̨̢̛̲̼̞̞͓̹͚̗̼͓͚͖͒̔̓̃̈̋̂́̏̆̐̐̈́̉͘͜ȑ̴̫͔͂̌̔̆̓͛͗́͐̍̃́̆ÿ̷̤̺̳̖͖͚͈́̄́͌͒͂͊͗̄̔̚p̶̢̧͇̞̯͍͇̤̖͖̙̫̪͋̏̃̃͗̎͜͝t̶͖̉̽̐̇i̴̭̜̼͖̬̽̀͆̃̓̂̚͝ͅc̸̡͙̪͎̫͚̫̘̱͚͔̫̣̣̒̃̋͜͝ 💀💀💀 :verified: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:04:06 JST 💀💀💀 :0080: c̷̨̢̛̲̼̞̞͓̹͚̗̼͓͚͖͒̔̓̃̈̋̂́̏̆̐̐̈́̉͘͜ȑ̴̫͔͂̌̔̆̓͛͗́͐̍̃́̆ÿ̷̤̺̳̖͖͚͈́̄́͌͒͂͊͗̄̔̚p̶̢̧͇̞̯͍͇̤̖͖̙̫̪͋̏̃̃͗̎͜͝t̶͖̉̽̐̇i̴̭̜̼͖̬̽̀͆̃̓̂̚͝ͅc̸̡͙̪͎̫͚̫̘̱͚͔̫̣̣̒̃̋͜͝ 💀💀💀 :verified:

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     @netdoll big unixen died mostly due to the companies behind them being retards with no regard for the market trends. Until the .com boom, most deployments were large scale enterprise systems, and the traditional unix business model was based around that, and this was the road to nowhere.
     
     Mind you, those UNIX systems still exist and are supported. AIX had a release just three months ago. HP-UX had one last may. You can even still find a job being a unix admin, albeit with some luck.
     mental meltdown likes this.
   • mental meltdown (netdoll@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 14:21:51 JST mental meltdown

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     @joey @newt They're true but only as far as commodity Unix. Linux completely killed the market for all competitors on x86 white box hardware sans the BSDs and NT, and most of the workstation lines that the big iron Unices were tied to became casualties of the Itanic push which eventually cemented Linux as the victor there too except for HP which used it as intended to run the proprietary operating systems they either developed internally or that they acquired from former competitors (Sun and IBM never truly bought into it which is why their respective products survive in various guises, if just barely).
   • tree life (joey@stereophonic.space)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 14:21:52 JST tree life

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     @netdoll @newt
     
     I really don't know about the UNIX is dead stories that pop up here and there. Those overpriced workstations are thankfully history but the operating systems have always been in use.
   • mental meltdown (netdoll@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 17:34:20 JST mental meltdown

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     @newt @joey So did Digital and SGI but that didn't stop them from taking the course they did anyway. It wasn't so much that Sun or IBM had the CPUs in and of themselves, more that the political will existed within both companies to keep them alive (which IBM could afford to do due to being absolutely massive and Sun did out of pride)
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     @netdoll @joey Sun and IBM both had their own CPUs (SPARC and POWER respectively), so they didn't really need to. But then again, both Solaris and AIX aren't terribly popular these days. AIX never really had any presence outside of very niche enterprise segment, and Solaris was killed of by Larry Ellison right after Sun acquisition.
   • mental meltdown (netdoll@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 17:38:16 JST mental meltdown

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     @newt @joey Sun actually did much of the development work on GNOME 2 so this doesn't surprise me at all. Workstation Solaris essentially died with the rise of Linux and NT but they kept pushing it as a server OS right up to the bitter end (and of course the indefinite afterlife it has thru illumos)
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     @netdoll @joey to be fair, Sun ended up just copying Linux in the later 2000s, including shipping GNOME as a default UI. I even remember Toshiba selling laptops with pre-installed Solaris. Didn't really help.