Live Free Or Die


UNIX is 40 years old… where has the time gone. OK, so my first interaction with UNIX was in the early eighties, and being used to VAX VMS, it all seemed rather counterintuitive. ‘vi’ (pronounced ‘v’-'i’, not ‘vi’ – as I was very quickly corrected) was alien beyond belief compared to EDT… you could lose everything with one miss placed keystroke, or more usually one missed ‘ESC’. As an OS, the more you did with it, the more it could do… and it’s still around us today, its just people don’t realise it as ‘UNIX’ has disappeared and we now talk OS X, RedHat, SUSE and so on.

Anyway… The Open Group has commissioned a re-run of the classic ‘Live Free Or Die’ UNIX license plates, and there’s even a photo competition for those who feel inclined to take pictures of the license plate in-the-wild. Pictures to uniximages@unix.net, and you can see those submitted on Flickr.

Happy Birthday UNIX.

Guy Bunker

November 27, 2009 | Filed Under Miscellaneous 

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