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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5027 comp.os.linux.misc:33891 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.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!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!news.maz.net!cls.net!lemis!grog From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Message-ID: <D2svLv.HA6@lemis.de> Organization: LEMIS, Feldatal, Germany Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 09:27:30 GMT References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <LEWIS.95Jan14120836@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> <3f986l$m20@agate.berkeley.edu> <LEWIS.95Jan16094343@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> Lines: 42 In article <LEWIS.95Jan16094343@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu>, Lewis <lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> wrote: > In article <3f986l$m20@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >> In article <LEWIS.95Jan14120836@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu>, >> Lewis <lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> wrote: >>> 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. >> Sigh. Another happy SCO user who's never actually tried to any >> serious *development* on it.. SCO Open Death Trap - just say >> NO! :-) > > Actually, I'm not a happy SCO user. The only thing I can see going > for it is that if you follow the docs, you can get things working > pretty quickly. They must have improved it a lot since the version of ODT I got. I did *something* not quite the way it was in the overly detailed book (the kind that shows you *every single* menu and tells you which selection to make), and it suddenly disintegrated into component parts, each requiring activation keys that I didn't have. It certainly took me longer to install than Linux or myriad BSD variants. > I've never developed anything in it, and I never ever > want to. Good thinking. I have, and it's a royal pain. Yes, the documentation is far superior to any free UNIX documentation, but the best thing going for SCO is that there are commercial applications available for it. Get Linux or BSD to execute them, and SCO will have very little going for it. > Development? On SCO? I'm not crazy! I _like_ working under Linux. Sometimes you're forced to... I did my time on XENIX. -- Greg Lehey LEMIS grog@lemis.de Schellnhausen 2 Tel: +49-6637-919123 36325 Feldatal Fax: +49-6637-919122 Germany