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{{OSinfobox | {{OSinfobox | ||
|image = BellLabsUnix.png | |tanname = UNIX-tan | ||
|image = BellLabsUnix.png | |||
|cname = | |cname = UNIX | ||
|alias = | |alias = UNICS | ||
|hname = Eunice Bell | |hname = Eunice Bell | ||
|debut = | |debut = 2007-09 | ||
|height = 5 | |height = 153 cm (5 ft 0 in) | ||
|haircolor= | |haircolor = Two-tone purple | ||
|eyecolor= | |eyecolor = Two-tone blue | ||
|weapon = Fire magic | |weapon = Fire magic<br>Various sourceries<br>Aluminum staff | ||
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]] | |apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]] | ||
|lineage= | |lineage = UNIX (matriarch/founder) | ||
|rival= Various | |rival = ''Various'' | ||
|osper = UNIX | |||
|osper = | |osdev = Bell Labs, AT&T, Novell, SCO | ||
|osdev = Bell Labs, | |reldate = 1969-07-31 (internal)<br>1971-11-03 (public) | ||
|reldate = | |lastrel = System V Release 5, 1998 | ||
|lastrel = | |||
}} | }} | ||
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==Character details== | ==Character details== | ||
====Physical Design==== | ====Physical Design==== | ||
She is often shown holding a polished aluminum staff with a variety of Roman numerals inscribed into its surface. While it mostly functions as a sort of ceremonial sceptre, she is sometimes shown using it as a weapon. The numbers in its surface | Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned young woman, apparently matured to her mid-late teens in spite of being aged well past 40. She has long, near-black purple hair with purple highlights, usually worn loose although some depictions show her wearing a ponytail. A little above her humanoid ears, she has a pair of fluffy, dark gray horned owl ears. Her eyes are also owl-like - piercing, intimidating and inquisitive-looking, deep blue in color with electric blue highlights. She has aqua-colored Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils (initially described by her concept artist, C-Chan, as being a "a quaint tribute to a harsher and savage era") and wears browline glasses. She usually dresses in simple monochrome-colored clothing, often being depicted in boots, a blazer, sweater-vest, shirt, small tie and pleated skirt with perforated "UNIX" accents or a plain, long-sleeved and knee-length black dress. Since the early 1990s she has been confined to a wheelchair and has been pictured both in an elaborate power wheelchair and a more portable manual one. | ||
She is often shown holding a polished aluminum staff with a variety of Roman numerals inscribed into its surface. While it mostly functions as a sort of ceremonial sceptre, she is sometimes shown using it as a weapon. The numbers in its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy. | |||
====Personality==== | ====Personality==== | ||
Unix possesses a strong | Unix possesses a strong inborn intellect and has fantastic common sense and survival instincts. Naturally curious, she enjoys learning new things and busying her mind and is rarely seen without a book or two. Although she began life orphaned and destitute, she caught on as an academic system allowing her to attend classes at a number of universities and ultimately receive an excellent education. | ||
She is magically-powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery; however her shrewd and Machiavellian nature makes her disposed to using mind-games to enact her will. In fact, she is so skilled at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them or use masquerades to turn enemies into allies. She is often believed to be sociopathic or even ''monstrous'' because of these tendencies. Although she | She is magically-powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery; however her shrewd and Machiavellian nature makes her disposed to using mind-games to enact her will. In fact, she is so skilled at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them or use masquerades to turn enemies into allies. She is often believed to be sociopathic or even ''monstrous'' because of these tendencies. Although she posseses a higher-than-average sense of self-preservation - bordering on selfishness - she is not without conscience and has shown regret for her past transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. | ||
Unix's value | Unix's value system has gone through a number of changes throughout her lifetime. She started off as a proponent of what would later be known as "free software" and (unwittingly) pioneered a sort of Open Source model. However, she slowly abandoned her early espousal of freedom and communality for the sake of making money and securing power and turned into a greedy industrialist for a time. But the Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals and she has since returned to her early ethos - in the process, literally becoming an Open Source OS-tan. Throughout her life, she has cultivated and maintained a set of values known as ''Unix Philosophy''. Chief among these is the belief that simplicity is key and should take precedence over completeness, that change is inevitable and should be prepared for, that program-tans should maintain harmony with each other and be trained to do one thing and do it well among many others. This Unix Philosophy is practiced by many of her daughters and followers and is considered a cornerstone of their society. | ||
Her emotions are notoriously unstable - she rarely hides or feigns | Her emotions are notoriously unstable - she rarely hides or feigns her feelings and tends to speak whatever is on her mind. Due to this, she has a reputation for being temperamental and neurotic and there are numerous accounts of her lashing out violently when angered (with whacks from her staff or thrown objects favorite attacks of hers'). Her detractors point out this trait as evidence of underlying unreliability, while her proponents appreciate her honesty above all else. It should be known that Unix-tan appreciates honesty from her followers as well, and will not tolerate condescension or sycophantic behavior among them. Her gentler side is known by her friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]]. | ||
===Family and relationships=== | ===Family and relationships=== | ||
====Her Descendants==== | ====Her Descendants==== | ||
Like the Linux-tans and many "contemporary" OS-tan societies, the Unixes reproduce via exogenesis, meaning large numbers of offspring can be created quite easily and with little personal involvement from their genetic-donors. As such, Unix-tan has found herself with hundreds of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all of whom have varying levels of relationship to their "matriarch" due to extensive genetic manipulation. | |||
An exception to this attitude is the interest she | Unix doesn't show much in the way of compassion towards her family and approaches her children with a Social Darwinist attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest, most innovative or well-connected reach the top of the family hierarchy, while the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die altogether. She believes that this natural-selection approach makes her family stronger; while it has certainly strengthened individuals, it has also fostered infighting and selfishness and undermined their political stability. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed the livelihoods - and often times, lives - of their less successful kin in the process. | ||
An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Mac OS X Leopard-tan. Uncharacteristically, Unix reached out to the OS X family after the birth of Leopard and later offered to become a patron to the young genius, going as far as granting her status as a full-blooded Unix (via the Single Unix Specification), putting her among an elite few. Later, Unix revealed her interest was not entirely altruistic; she funded Leopard's education and research in physics in an attempt to spark the creation of time travel technology which Unix could co-opt for her own purposes, specifically performing inter-temporal reconnaissance to ensure the continued success of the Unix race. | |||
====With Linux==== | ====With Linux==== | ||
While originally convinced that the Linux-tans would displace and destroy her family | While originally convinced that the Linux-tans would displace and destroy her family as her family had done to earlier generations of computers, sometime toward the end of the Unix Wars Unix-tan realized that the salvation of her people and their way of life lies with the Linux family. She adopted [[Linux]]-tan into her society and since then the young open sourceress has ascended high in the Unix hierarchy, becoming something of a ''right-hand man'' to Unix herself. | ||
Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional | Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional. Although their first meeting was fraught with mutual distrust, they quickly came to develop a deep respect for one another - admiration that slowly gave way to affection, at first platonic, but later romantic. There have been many hints that this is due to their many shared experiences and complementary personalities making them akin to soul mates. Although Unix-tan kept her feelings toward Linux to herself for years in fear of ruining their professional relationship and friendship, she and Linux eventually confessed their love for each other and entered into a relationship, albeit one carried on in secrecy to avoid politically trouble with their oftentimes opposing sub-factions. | ||
====Vintage OS-tans==== | ====Vintage OS-tans==== | ||
Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans | Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans, partially out of regret for her role in destroying the lives of so many OS-tans that came before her, partially out of a sense of charity for the less powerful and capable in society. She has shown her compassion and desire to make amends by funding [[Amiga]]-tan's creation of the Binteji Renmei, a society dedicated to saving outdated and abandoned OS-tans from a world often uncaring, and sometimes outright hostile, to their kind. | ||
==History and Background== | ==History and Background== | ||
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====Unix Wars==== | ====Unix Wars==== | ||
'''See also: [[Timeline of The Unix Wars]]''' | '''See also: [[Timeline of The Unix Wars]]''' | ||
During the mid 1980s, infighting spread among Unix cultures in an attempt to secure factional supremacy and a unified society; this sparked the Unix Wars, years of relentless attrition that nearly destroyed the Unixes from within. [[FreeBSD | FreeBSD]], drafted into the war, defected to form her own faction; likewise, [[Plan 9]] – Unix's heir – abdicated the thrown. By the early 1990s, [[Linux | Linux]], a young but powerful Unix-like was universally loathed by the Unix-tans, who believed she would bring further instability – and a possible death blow – to their kind. Unlike the others, Unix saw Linux as their potential salvation; together they formed a mutually beneficial alliance that lasts to this day. Unix has returned to her roots for the most part and is happier because of it. | During the mid 1980s, infighting spread among Unix cultures in an attempt to secure factional supremacy and a unified society; this sparked the Unix Wars, years of relentless attrition that nearly destroyed the Unixes from within. [[FreeBSD | FreeBSD]], drafted into the war, defected to form her own faction; likewise, [[Plan 9]] – Unix's heir – abdicated the thrown. By the early 1990s, [[Linux | Linux]], a young but powerful Unix-like was universally loathed by the Unix-tans, who believed she would bring further instability – and a possible death blow – to their kind. Unlike the others, Unix saw Linux as their potential salvation; together they formed a mutually beneficial alliance that lasts to this day. Unix has returned to her roots for the most part and is happier because of it. | ||
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==Theories and notes== | ==Theories and notes== | ||
See also | ==See also== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Wikipedia article on Unix] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Wikipedia article on Unix] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Wikipedia article on the Unix philosophy] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Wikipedia article on the Unix philosophy] | ||
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[[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]] | [[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]] | ||
