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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.cic.net!condor.ic.net!news.sojourn.com!cancer.vividnet.com!nntp.uac.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD Future... Date: 12 Oct 1996 13:00:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <53o4pf$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <53kr8l$pkt@newsbr.eunet.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) wrote: > Remember SCO now offers a free license of its Open Server for > personal, study, research. This apparently wouldn't help Louis much: he runs a commercial enterprise, so it doesn't make any difference to him. > 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. Believe it or not, while i debug kernels every now and then at home, i usually don't do this on my machines at work. (Almost) all of them run FreeBSD, however. And yep, my last experience with the SCO box i gotta setup for a customer on the supported HP Vectra <something> machine wasn't that good either -- the machine jammed each time i hit the CapsLock key. Now being a kernel hackers person, i basically know _why_ they jammed (it's a very well-known problem), but alas!, without kernel sources for the SCO, no luck. (The customer abandoned SCO later, and went Winlose NT.) So go figure... Or look at my .sig. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)