HP-UX is described as 'Is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984. Recent versions support the HP 9000 series of computer systems, based on the PA-RISC instruction set' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to HP-UX for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best HP-UX alternative is Ubuntu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HP-UX are Debian, Manjaro Linux, openSUSE and FreeBSD.