Q&A: All these are Unix ( AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UNIX and TRUE64 ) Products?
Question by raju g: All these are Unix ( AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UNIX and TRUE64 ) Products?
I have a doubt on Unix products,please can any one tell me the following tools are Unix products (AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UNIX and TRUE64 )?
OR Please give me the list of Unix products ?
Best answer:
Answer by David P
List of Unix Variants
Most are no longer available.
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Compaq Non-Commercial Tru64 UNIX Home Page
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Acorn RISCiX
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Alliant FX/8 with Concentrix 4.1
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Altos 486, 586, or 986 with XENIX 3.0
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Altos ACS68000 with Unix System III R2
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Amdahl mainframes with UTS 2.4 and UTSV 5.2.6b
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Amdahl mainframes with Unix System V R5.2.6
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Apollo workstations with Aegis 9.7 and with DomainOS SR10.0 and 10.4
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Apple Macintosh with A/UX
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Apple Powerbook with MachTen 2.1.1.D
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AT 3B2 and 3B20 systems with Unix System V R2
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AT 6300 PLUS with Unix System V R2
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AT 6386 WGS Unix PC with Unix System V/386 3.2
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AT PC 7300 UnixPC (3B1) System V R3.51m
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Atari Falcon with MiNT
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Atari ST with MINIX ST 1.5
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BeBox with BeOS DR7
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Bull DPX/2 with BOS/X
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Bull Escala and other RS/6000 compatibles with AIX
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Charles River Data Systems Universe with UNOS 9.2
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Commodore Amiga with Unix System V R4
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Commodore Amiga with MINIX 1.5.10
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Concurrent (Masscomp) computers with RTU 4.0 through 6.0
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Convergent Technologies MiniFrame with CTIX System V R3
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Convex C1 and C2 with Convex/OS 8.x and 9.x
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Convex 3240, C220, and C240 with ConvexOS V10.x
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Cray supercomputers with UNICOS 6.1 through 8.0and with CSOS 1.0
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DEC Alpha, DECstation, and or PC with with OSF/1 versions 1 through 3
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DEC Alpha with Digital Unix 3.2 through 4.0
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DEC Alpha with Linux
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DEC PDP-11 with 2.4, 2.9, 2.10, and 2.11 BSD
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DEC VAX with 4.1BSD, 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno, 4.3BSD-Networking/2
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DEC VAX with ATT Bell Labs Unix 7th Edition
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DEC VAX with ATT Bell Labs Research Unix 10th Edition
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DEC VAX with ATT System V R3
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DEC VAX with ULTRIX 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.x
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DECstation with Berkeley Sprite
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DECstation with MACH 2.6
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DECstation with ULTRIX 4.2 through 4.5
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Data General AViiON 88K with DG/UX 4.3 through 5.4.3
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DIAB DS90 with DNIX 5.2 and 5.3
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Dolphin Server Technology Triton 88/17 with Dolphin Unix System V/88 R3.2
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Encore Multimax with UMAX 4.3
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Encore 88K with UMAX V 5.2
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Fortune 32:16 with For:Pro 2.1
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FPS 500 with FPX 4.1
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Harris HCX-2900
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Harris Night Hawk 68K and 88K with CX/UX
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HP-9000 with 4.4BSD
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HP-9000 with HP-UX 5.00 through 10.30
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IBM 370-series mainframes with AIX/370 1.2
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IBM 370-series mainframes with AIX/ESA 2.1
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IBM PS/2 with AIX 1.0 – 1.3
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IBM RS/6000 and Power Series with AIX 3.0 through 4.2
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IBM RT PC with AIX 2.x, ACIS 4.x, and 4.3BSD-Reno
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ICL DRS400 and 400E with System V R3
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ICL DRS3000 and DRS6000 with DRS/NX Unix System V R4;
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Integrated Solutions VS8 with ISI 4.2BSD
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Intel 302 with Bell Tech System V/386 R3.2
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Intergraph Clipper with CLIX
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Luxor ABC-9000 with DNIX
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MIPS Computer Systems with RISC/os UMIPS 4.52
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Modcomp Realstar 1000 with Real/IX D.1
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Motorola Four Phase
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Motorola VME Delta Series with System V/68 R3
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Motorola VME Delta Series with System V/88 R32 and R40
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NCR Tower 1632 with System V R2
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NCR Tower 32 with OS 1.x-2.x
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NCR System 3000 and MP-RAS with System V R4
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NeXT workstations with NeXTSTEP/Mach 1.0 through 3.3
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Nixdorf Targon/31 M15 with TOS 4.0.13
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Norsk Data Uniline 88/17 with System V/88 R3.2
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OkiStation 7300 Series with System V R4
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Olivetti CP 486 with Unix System V R4
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Olivetti LSX 3005 through 3045 with X/OS Unix 2.3 through 3.0;
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Olivetti LSX 5020 with SCO Unix 3.2.2
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PCs with 386BSD (Jolix)
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PCs with ATT Unix System V R3.2
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PCs with BSDI/386 1.0-2.1
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PCs with Dell Unix System V/386 R4.04 issue 2.2
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PCs with DG/UX 5.4
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PCs with ESIX System V R3 and R4
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PCs with FreeBSD 1.0 and 2.0
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PCs with Interactive Systems Corporation System III PC/IX
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PCs with Interactive Systems Corporation 386/ix 1.x and 2.x
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PCs with Interactive Systems Corporation System V/386 R3.2 V2.2-4.0
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PCs with Linux
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PCs with Lynx/386
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PCs with Mark Williams COHERENT/386 4.0 and 4.2
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PCs with MINIX/386
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PCs with Microport SV/AT System V R2
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PCs with Microport 3.0U3 and SVR4.0 V2.2-4.1
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PCs with Mt Xinu Mach386
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PCs with NetBSD
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PCs with NeXTSTEP/486
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PCs with QNX 4.0 through 4.23
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PCs with SCO ODT 1.1 through 3.0
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PCs with SCO Open Server R5.0
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PCs with SCO Unix/386 3.2.x
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PCs with SCO Xenix/286 2.3.3
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PCs with SCO Xenix/386 2.2.x and 2.3.x
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PCs with SunSoft Solaris 1.0 through 2.5.1
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PCs with Trusted Xenix
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PCs with UnixWare 1.0 through 2.1.1
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Perkin-Elmer 3200 series with ATT Bell Labs Unix V7
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Perkin-Elmer 3200 series with ATT System V R3
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Perkin-Elmer 3200 series with Xelos R02
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PFU Compact A Series SX/A TISP V10/E50
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs on Intel, MIPS, SPARC, and 680×0
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Prime EXL7000 or 8000 MIPS RISC/os 4.52
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Pyramid MIS T Series with OSx 4.4 through 5.1a
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Pyramid MIS S and ES Series with DataCenter/OSx
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Sequent Balance or Symmetry with DYNIX 3.x and DYNIX/paratx 1.3, 1.4, and 4.0
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Siemens Nixdorf RM 200 with SINIX 4.52
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Siemens PC-X with SINIX (Intel 80186 cpu)
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Siemens PC-MX with SINIX (Intel 8086 cpu)
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Siemens PC-MX2 and 4 with SINIX (National Semiconductor 32016)
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Siemens PRIMEPOWER with Solaris 8 (SPARC64).
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Silicon Graphics IRIX 3.3 through 6.2
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SINIX on IA-32 platforms
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Solbourne 5E/900 with OS/MP 4.1A
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Sony NEWS with NEWS-OS 4.x
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Sperry 5000 with UTS V and System V R3
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Stardent 1520 Unix System V R3 2.2
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Stratus computers with FTX 2.x
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Sun computers with Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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Sun computers with NeXTSTEP 3.3
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Sun computers with SunOS 3.2 through 4.1.3
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Sun computers with Solaris 1.0 through 2.5.1
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Tandy Model 6000 with XENIX 3.2
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Tektronix 6130 with UTek OS
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UNISYS 640 with CTIX SVR3.2 5.3
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UNISYS S/4040 with CTIX SVR3.2
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UNISYS U6000/65 MP with Unix System V R4
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Unix is not a single operating system. It has many flavors (aka. variants, types, or implementations). Although based on a core set of Unix commands, different flavors have their own unique commands and features, and designed to work with different types of hardware. No one knows exactly how many Unix flavors are there, but it is safe to say that if including all those that are obscure and obsolete, the number of Unix flavors is at least in the hundreds. You can often tell that an operating system is in the Unix family if it has a name that is a combination of the letters U, I, and X.
The following is some of the well-known Unix flavors, with their Company name
AIX by IBM
BSD/OS (BSDi) by Wind River
CLIX by Intergraph Corp.
Debian GNU/Linux by Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
Tru64 Unix (formerly Digital Unix) by Compaq Computer Corp.
DYNIX/ptx by IBM (formerly by Sequent Computer Systems)
Esix Unix Esix Systems
FreeBSD by FreeBSD Group
GNU Herd by GNU Organization
HAL SPARC64/OS by HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
HP-UX by Hewlett-Packard Company
Irix by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Linux by several groups several
LynxOS by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.
MacOS X Server by Apple Computer, Inc.
NetBSD by NetBSD Group
NonStop-UX by Compaq Computer Corporation
OpenBSD by OpenBSD Group
OpenLinux by Caldera Systems, Inc.
Openstep by Apple Computer, Inc.
Red Hat Linux by Red Hat Software, Inc.
Reliant Unix by Siemens AG
SCO Unix by The Santa Cruz Operation Inc.
Solaris by Sun Microsystems
SuSE by S.u.S.E., Inc.
UNICOS by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
UTS by UTS Global, LLC
All the best.
Condensed answer, five of the most relevant *nix OSes in use today:
FreeBSD – www.freebsd.org
Red Hat Linux – www.redhat.com
CentOS (a deriative of RH) – www.centos.org
OpenBSD – www.openbsd.org
Debian Linux – www.debian.org
You can run into royalties and licensing issues using any of the Unix variants. Solaris is truly based on Unix, is now open source and from the same company that wrote Java. Solaris runs best on Sun workstations.
Tru64 was the OS that ran on the old DEC Alpha 64-bit machines. It is derived from Unix.
AIX is the IBM version of Unix and it is OpenSource, still available.
The Linux kernel, originally authored by Linus Torvalds, coupled with the GNU free libraries allows variations of Linux.
HP developes their own brand of Linux. The HP version is also OpenSource.
The commercial version of Linux is RedHat. The same company also offers a free Linux named Fedora.
The business model for OpenSouce Linux is the developers will charge for updates and maintenance.
I know True 64 and HP-UNIX are UNIX, i think AIX is also UNIX. But Linux and solaris are “descendants of unix” if you will.
RJ