Question

Research 10 current flavors of Unix and Linux available today. Review who uses those flavors and for what purpose. Consider reviewing both enterprise, Windows-like, and home flavors. Complete the following table. Keep your product to two pages. ALL SOURCES MUST BE CITED PER THE RUBRIC OR POINTS WILL BE DEDUCTED. This extends to any information that YOU did not compose.

Answer 1

(1)AIX - developed by IBM for use on its mainframe computers

(2)BSD/OS - a commercial version of BSD developed by Wind River for Intel processors

(3)HP-UX - developed by Hewlett-Packard for its HP 9000 series of business servers

(4)IRIX - developed by SGI for applications that use 3-D visualization and virtual reality

(5)QNX - a real time operating system developed by QNX Software Systems primarily for use in embedded systems

(6)Solaris - developed by Sun Microsystems for the SPARC platform and the most widely used proprietary flavor for web servers

(7)Tru64 - developed by Compaq for the Alpha processor

(8)Linux - the most popular and fastest growing of all the Unix-like operating systems

(9)FreeBSD - the most popular of the BSD systems (all of which are direct descendants of BSD UNIX, which was developed at the University of California at Berkeley)

(10)NetBSD - features the ability to run on more than 50 platforms, ranging from acorn26 to x68k

OpenBSD - may have already attained its goal of becoming the most secure of all computer operating systems

Darwin - the new version of BSD that serves as the core for the Mac OS X