13 engineers on Hacker News describe using HP-UX first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I started in the industry when you were born, with IRIX, HPUX (horrible) and Solaris.”
regret · production · zeruch · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Well I've been on a boat that used NT4 for stupid office tasks and HP-UX somewhere in the actual Combat Control System. Guess which one shit the bed”
regret · production · mpyne · 2013-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had moved most customers off Solaris, HP-UX and AIX over to Linux out of cost optimizations”
neutral · production · LinuxBender · 2025-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our programs on some HP-UX shared server and displayed the pixels on those terminals over a 1 Mb/s LAN. No glitches.”
neutral · personal · pmontra · 2023-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our Oracle on HP/UX estate got eaten by SQL Server 7.”
neutral · production · unxdfa · 2023-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used AIX, HP-UX, OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) and RHEL. We use it because there's a support contract”
neutral · production · csours · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was completely infuriating and one reason we migrated to HPUX.”
neutral · production · ianmcgowan · 2022-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were all using Solaris, HP-UX and Aix boxes when real money was at play.”
neutral · production · pjmlp · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been logged into the odd BSD, AIX and HP-UX machine before.”
neutral · personal · doubled112 · 2021-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“until 2005 I only used Aix, HP-UX and Solaris in production.”
neutral · production · pjmlp · 2021-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using unices for over 20 years now (first was ultrix, then truos, sunos, solaris, hpux, aix, linux, netbsd, freebsd, osx)”
neutral · production · 20 yr · GFK_of_xmaspast · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using Vim since the mid-nineties, in things like SunOS and HPUX.”
neutral · personal · coldtea · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run AIX/Linux/HP UX/IBM TPF.”
neutral · production · joshbaptiste · 2013-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?