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Haven't used any non-Linux stuff in forever, but i have generally fond memories of working on SGI (perl and c/cgi/nsapi at weather channel), Solaris (oracle db and java web apps at riaa), and SCO (java/servlets -- and javascript/netscape/livewire -- at startup confluence software, not atlassian), aix at small energy company, etc. -- the shit was just all over the place.

and it was kind of great. kept things interesting, at a minimum.

once linux and red hat starting gaining real traction in industry, i felt like losing all these high-priced unix distributions was kind of... lame.

i always had this idea, for instance, that working on/with Solaris -- i was driving this high performance _machine_ that was capable of doing almost anything, as long as i was up to the task - the Mercedes of OSs.

losing all those -- i would kind of compare it to how the English language - like the Linux OS - is taking over the world. at the same time that is happening, either as a direct result or something less than that, we're losing all these other languages. ditto biodiversity loss. ditto city gentrification / sameness / sterility. it feels wrong / unhealthy.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-languag...

what i'm saying is i miss the days of BeOS. :)