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[[!meta title="u2u: unix 2 unix"]]
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## unix 2 unix
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the "bring unices together" technical and social project
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## Motivation
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There are many different Unix versions ("Unices") out there today.
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As a
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<a href="http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/foss/the-term-foss/">FOSS</a>
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developer I interact with many different developers, who, like me, use many
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different versions of Unix.
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Many parts of each Unix are beeing reinvented over and over again, which is not
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bad in general (things are beeing improved).
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The question is:
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<b>Why should one Unix not use the advantages another Unix has?</b>
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The other motivation is to reduce the gap between different Unices: So
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a Unix admin can easily use and hack for Unix B, if she only knows Unix A.
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Thus, if she creates a cool feature for Unix A to speedup the boot process
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to last only 0.5 seconds, she can submit it to developers of Unix C to Z.
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## Ideas
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There are already many ongoing efforts in this direction (see below
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for examples), but this is a different idea: It's a platform for Unixers
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<ul>
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<li>to exchange their ideas and code,
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<li>to improve their Unix,
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<li>to share cool ideas,
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<li>to propose standards to be used among Unices,
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</ul>
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<i>independently of the Unix (they|you) are using!</i>
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<p>As most Unixers like easy to use interfaces, I chose to create
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a new <a href="http://l.schottelius.org/mailman/listinfo/u2u">mailing list</a>
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(just because I think that newsreaders suck more than MUAs).
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The difference to existing projects is, that it is <b>not</b> focussed
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<ul>
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<li>on a specific feature,
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<li>a specific version
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<li>or a specific area.
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</ul>
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Nor is the idea of this project to create a
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<ul>
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<li>feature rich, fast development (<b>Linux</b>),
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<li>everywhere running (<b>NetBSD</b>),
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<li>fast (<b>FreeBSD</b>),
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<li>secure (<b>OpenBSD</b>)
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<li>and commercially supported (<b>Solaris</b>)
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</ul>
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<i>Unix</i>.
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What this project may possibly be able to do is
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<ul>
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<li>to bring people together,
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<li>to create a spring board into the Unix scene,
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<li>to prevent you from making the same mistakes others did before
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<li>and to let people create real projects somewhere else.
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</ul>
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## Status
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* ***Calling people***
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To make progress and bring Unixers together, there is a need to be known,
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so more people join and discuss their ideas.
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Remember: This website is just a plattform - you're the one who has to act.
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* <a href="http://l.schottelius.org/mailman/listinfo/u2u">Subscribe to the mailing list</a>,
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Otherwise, you may also just
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* blame me for this website,
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* tell me that it is (unecessary|has already been done|<<i>insert flame|praise here</i>>)
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* and then let others know, what cool ideas you've in your mind.
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* Or visit the [archive](http://l.schottelius.org/pipermail/u2u/).
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<!-- ######################################################### -->
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<h2>Examples</h2>
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<P>Some projects I'm aware of, which bring together Unices:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://wiki.x.org/">Xorg</a> - Which Unix does not have it?
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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a> - Although they are not Unix
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<li><a href="http://www.bsd.org/">The BSDs</a> The fast, secure and portable operating systems
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<li><a href="http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/specifications/efsh/">EFSH</a> -
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Nico Schottelius' proposal of a generic easy filesystem hierarchy
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(this is <b>not</b> related to LSB
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<li><a href="http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/linux/cconfig/">cconfig</a> -
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Nico Schottelius' proposal of a configuration format
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</ul>
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Do you know about more projects? I would be happy, if you let me know!
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[[!tag unix net]]
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