Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Apr 2009 19:54 UTC
Even though the old-world UNIX operating systems, like IRIX and HP-UX, have been steadily losing ground to Linux for a long time now, they do still get updated and improved. HP-UX 11i v3 is supposed to get update 4 tomorrow, with a host of new features that won't excite you if you're used to Linux, but they're still pretty useful for HP-UX users.
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I hate to say this, because I love BSD (and was an active contributor to NetBSD). But if you look at marketshare, Linux already finished off the BSDs. There were times (up to, say 2001-2002) where most of the BSDs had an edge over Linux in many departments, were in the media limelight and up till 2000 it also had relatively many users (those were the days when IIRC Apache or Sendmail explicitly recommended to run their software on top of BSD rather than Linux, and when FreeBSD was still used on many webservers according to netcraft). In recent years the edge and media attention seems to have evaporated. There's still chance that BSD will be significant in embedded devices, but even there it doesn't seem have have as much momentum as Linux.
Very few people use market share to decide if they're going to use an OS or not. What was that? Linux was supposed to be "on the desktop" 5 years ago? 8 years ago? When is it coming? Exactly. Everything I've seen is still horrible. I'd rather hack off my left arm than be tortured with the horrible mess that is Linux.