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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:34687 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1689 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes References: <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Apr16.162749.29973@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Followup-To: alt.dev.null Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Linux box and AmPR node Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 01:44:53 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr17.014453.59677@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 38 WARNING: Unix religious war! Followups are sent elsewhere! In article <1993Apr16.162749.29973@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes: >In article <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes: >>SCO Unix has been recommended to me as "the best" of the commercial >>systems, by a few folks. > > I had the pleasure of using this this product last summer, and >have slowly come to the conclusion that anybody who finds this a superior >product has either never used ANY other UNIX before, is high, or finds >AIX a close second. Thank you. I'd been wondering what drugs his informant was doing :-) Mind you, my background is almost exclusively System V --- and the SVR3.1 systems I worked with for several years before encountering SCO "Unix" were far, far better than that purported SVR3.2. Not to mention far more compatible with both System V and (to a limited extent: no networking with it) BSD software. (Unfortunately, it predated POSIX, so there was no compatibility there.) Nicely packaged, expensive spam is still spam, folks.... :-) > Never before have I used a UNIX so lacking in features, so annoying >to use (even for a SVR? system), and so difficult to get the hang of. As far as "annoying to use", that's clearly a matter of one's experience. I started with System III and moved on to System V when it came out; SunOS4 has been a real "trip", and I'm looking forward to our installing Solaris 2.1 so the system will behave as God intended :-) :-) :-) [and I say again for the humor-impaired: :-) ] Let's leave the *ix religious wars to the small- brained, shall we? ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org It's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell... Linux: the FREE 32-bit operating system, available NOW. Why waaaaaait for NT?