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AIX is not dead yet.

SCO died by self inflicted gunshot wounds.

Weirdly, it stops there for a looooooooooong time

Eventually will be just BSD

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

2025: Linux

Well there is also macos

Qnx Unix still technically kicking

but why was mematic used if GIMP was used?

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