Today we host an interview with Christophe de Dinechin, Software Architect in HP-UX (Software business unit, Infrastructure Solutions). Most of you already know HP-UX, the leading "traditional" UNIX today feature-wise (second only to Solaris in Unix market-share, mostly competing with AIX). With Christophe we discuss HP-UX's competition, the other... 5 OSes HP supports with its various products, the Itanium platform and more.
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If GNU not do anything well, why HP/UX packaged Open Source applications? HP/UX have a better Web server than Apache (I know that is not GNU but is Open Source)? This friend doesn't use GCC?
He uses 'GNUs' to refer to the GNU/Linux operating systems (and also BSD's, etc...) and not to GNU applications like gcc and what have you. Read and understand.
If GNU not do anything well, why HP/UX packaged Open Source applications? HP/UX have a better Web server than Apache (I know that is not GNU but is Open Source)? This friend doesn't use GCC?
He uses 'GNUs' to refer to the GNU/Linux operating systems (and also BSD's, etc...) and not to GNU applications like gcc and what have you. Read and understand.