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HPC GUY:
this may sound odd, but where can i download unix?

Calum:
it does sound a bit odd, as faras i know you cannot download unix. as far as i know it is no longer supported and is a proprietary system. the closest you might get is downloading one of the BSDs.

HPC GUY:
DOH!

voidmain:
Calum is pretty much on the mark there but which flavor of UNIX are you interested in? BSD is probably the *only* UNIX that you can download for free. You used to be able to download Solaris x86 from Sun for free. I think you can still download it but not for free, you might have to give them a credit card number and be charged $20-$40, not sure about the current license.  

Most other UNIXes only run on specific hardware and you would purchase it with that hardware. Also SCO runs on x86 but that is not free either. I'm not sure what the current going rate is on that, they may also have ISO downloads.

But seriously, the differences between a "certified" version of UNIX and Linux are few.  In fact there are probably more differences between two different "certified" versions of UNIX than there are between any one certified version of UNIX and Linux. So I suggest you either get BSD or Linux, or both.

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

HPC GUY:
well.. i really wanted to take a look at the unix in its purest form, i have redhat here at work and im looking at lycoris on a my experimental machine at home which had redhat, but i going back to it. but i thought unix would be cool to try, just for kicks, im trying to learn all that i can about Oses.

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