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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4820 comp.os.linux.misc:33398 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.CC.Lehigh.EDU!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!lewis From: lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu (Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Date: 14 Jan 1995 17:08:36 GMT Organization: Little, if any Lines: 28 Message-ID: <LEWIS.95Jan14120836@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <D1qzJ6.206@indirect.com> <3eor76$1hm@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3esdao$gjg@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3f7dp6$fgr@NNTP.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu In-reply-to: js1@Microwave2.PH.MsState.Edu's message of 14 Jan 1995 02:43:50 GMT In article <3f7dp6$fgr@NNTP.MsState.Edu> js1@Microwave2.PH.MsState.Edu (Jiann-Ming Su) writes: >I thought SCO UNIX was a real unix for PC's? It is, and it's very nice, and all. I just spent last night re-installing an SCO system for a client, and it's not all that bad, really. No, really. The administration tools are reasonable, and if you follow the documentation closely, everything is reasonably easy. (and no, I did NOT use their system administration shell and it was the first time I had ever touched SCO. They called me because it crashed, and the installer is long since out of business.) The problem is that it costs money. From my standpoint, it costs lots of money. With SCO, you put the money into the OS, and it comes with tools that take care of everything for you, as long as you do it their way. With Linux/*BSD, you put the money into the time that you lose when setting things up by digging through the configuration files by hand, but you can do things any way you want. If you think about it, SCO _can_ be cheaper in the long run, for commercial installations. (Less money spent on people time) Some of us, however, prefer to spend our time mucking with the config files ourselves, and would do it anyway, so it's the other way around. -- Lewis Tanzos - lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu - ljt3@lehigh.edu