Category talk:Unix software

Sane Organization
In order to standardize the UNIX software listing with the other operating systems, I am creating this category and moving all the previously categorized.

In a sane world, programs that compile and run on *two* or more UNIX-like operating systems (BSD, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, etc.) would be put into this main category, followed by sub-categories for MacOS X, Linux, BSD (for programs that only work on one of those).

The tree would look like


 * Windows — Stuff that only works in Windows
 * Why should this only be used for stuff that only works in Windows? What about, e.g., stuff that runs natively under Unix and under Windows, but not under Mac OS? — Daniel Brockman 03:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * MacOS — Classic and OSX programs that offer *native* Aqua GUIs or otherwise a significantly expanded codebase for OSX support
 * Presumably that's "Mac OS X", not just "Mac OS". Guy Harris (talk) 19:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * UNIX — Stuff that works in *two* or more of the below
 * HP-UX — Stuff that *only* works in HP-UX
 * Linux — Stuff that *only* works in Linux (such as the Linux kernel)
 * Solaris
 * SCO Unix
 * Darwin — Console/daemon applications or apps that require an X11 server that could run on MacOS X's underlying UNIX system but do not have native MacOS X support (e.g. cat and GTK).
 * ...and that presumably don't run on any other UN*Xes (otherwise it'd be "Unix software"). Guy Harris (talk) 19:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * BSD — Stuff that works in *all* BSD distributions
 * FreeBSD — Stuff that *only* works in FreeBSD
 * OpenBSD
 * NetBSD
 * Presumably there could be categories for other UN*Xes, such as AIX, IRIX, etc.. Guy Harris (talk) 19:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Cross-platform — Stuff that works on *all* the major PC operating systems (e.g. apache, php, etc.).
 * What are "all" the major PC operating systems? Presumably that includes Windows and Linux; does it include any of the BSDs, or Solaris?  What about OSes that don't run on standard PCs, such as Darwin/OS X (yeah, yeah, I know, hackintoshes), AIX, etc.? Guy Harris (talk) 19:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Should GNU project software be a subcategory of this one?
See and join discussion at Category talk:GNU project software. --Easyas12c 06:25, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Category for system administration software?
I'm attempting to categorize the article for multitail and while it's entirely possible I'm crazy, I can't find a subcategory that's appropriate for sysadmin software (it would be sysutils in fbsd ports).

I don't feel experienced enough to add a category all on my own. Thoughts?

ryan bagueros &#187; i know en + pt-br + es &#187; talk 01:56, 12 October 2011 (UTC)