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From: aldham@vanbc.wimsey.com (Danny Aldham)
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Subject: Re: Trying to research UNIX OS
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Date: 3 Apr 1996 00:54:24 GMT
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Eigil Krogh Sorenen (eks@aar-vki.dk) wrote:

:Our SCO OS 5 crashes every day so my advice is to take a look at other systems 
:before diciding to change from Linux. 
:My intention was to go the other way and try Linux instead of SCO.

Really? My Linux box crashes everytime I try to run X, with a Trident
video card. Same box has _Never_ crashed with SCO.
I would suggest that I am doing something wrong in Linux, and You 
are doing something wrong with SCO.

Danny Aldham