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From: Chris Mauritz <ritz@interactive.net>
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 16:20:06 GMT

Frederic MARAND <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote:
:)le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:

:)>Well,I see that the expected release of 2.2 has been pushed back from
:)>late summer '96 to first quarter '97,quite a jump,and I wonder what
:)>more there is to it past Walnut Creek's desire to keep the CDROMs
:)>semi-annual.
:)Remember SCO now offers a free license of its Open Server for
:)personal, study, research. 

:)I think this will probably diminish the needs of many FreeBSD/Linux
:)users to get these OSes: only people really wishing to tinker with
:)kernel code will stick to the really free OSes. Most people run them
:)to get unix apps running, not for the sake of debugging kernels.

Not so fast (literally).  There's also the folks that want/need
to meet some set of minimum performance criteria.  SCO is an
absolute slug.  I really don't care if it can run WordPerfect
out of the box if it's faster to run it using my 486 laptop
running Win 3.1.

Chris
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