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AIX is not dead yet.

I use hpux everyday. Mostly it still runs what it needs to run and the hardware for the most part is a tank so you don't have to think about it.

When it breaks it's the most infuriating thing in the world. All the hardware is bespoke and obsolete, old unix is maddening coming from modern Linux, it's a nightmare but kind of fun at the same time. My only hope that HP will open source it at the end of the year.

There are a lot of hobby Unix-like OS's however. I don't see the point in most of them, but still.

You also forgot macOS. It's a shitty "UNIX-certified" OS though.

While much of the Unix family has died, (especially in the System V family) there is an old one surviving and a few new additions being added.

Solaris is still alive, and from it was forked illumos. Meanwhile BSD has spawned its own family made up of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD, but also MacOS and Playstation. Other systems that appeared without any prior history like Linux include Redox OS and SerenityOS.

With that being said, the Unix family has noticeably shrunk, and the System V family is very much in danger of going extinct, with only the Solaris branch looking like it will survive the next year. If the System V family goes extinct, it would make the BSD family the only surviving branch descended from the original Unix.

SCO died by self inflicted gunshot wounds.

SCO crashed and burned in part because they tried to sue multiple Linux providers claiming that they owned all the rights to certain pieces of code that they'd contractually leased from IBM, and that IBM giving code to Linux distributors violated the terms of their agreement with IBM. It was a lawsuit that dragged on for over a decade and a half--I think that it's still going--and it's bled SCO of tens of millions of dollars ,esp. since they've lost nearly every single claim they've made.

Linux was not muscled like that in 1991 - it's first, barebones kernel was released in September of that year.

I remember installing Linux on a 90MHz 486 in the mid 90s and it barely ran X server with a simple window manager. And if the machine was turned off while Linux was running, you might not be able to boot again.

Linux now, however, is unrecognizeably better.

Out of all those I only ever used Solaris and the most polite thing I can say is: I have no nostalgia for that time.

I liked OpenSolaris, you could order a free CD from their website and they’d post it, even internationally.

Irix is missing. It was quite cool at the time. (Well, its desktop was).

Redox OS is a little baby sprout of grass on the very right

SerenityOS has some relevance and its new.

I used Solaris today. I've never been on BSD.

If you lament the death of AT&T Unix, blame IBM.

I spent so much time working with Solaris, in a weird way I kinda miss it

Actually Solaris is still squirming while the first shovels of dirt are being heaped on.

Well there is also macos

They may be dead, but we still have some amazing alternative OS's that exist that, as far as I'm aware, are still being updated. First thing that came to my mind was AROS ( Amiga Research Operating System that had to change the name to AROS Research Operating System ).

I personally don't use it since I don't use Amiga software, but it's still really cool. Under no circumstances would I recommend it as a daily driver because any software based around Amiga is purely hobby at this point, but it's still cool to check out.

Qnx Unix still technically kicking