From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 21:54:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA14627 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA14619 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:54:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA01534; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:56:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:56:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709170456.WAA01534@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co CC: chat@freebsd.org, Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin In-Reply-To: <341EDD76.51EB@asme.org> References: <341EDD76.51EB@asme.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson asked: % So, FreeBSD is a good choice for the BSD4.4 type, a point I have sometimes % made to computer science students. But what's a good SVR4 choice--any % free ones? Any versions of Linux that qualify? Pedro Giffuni S. replied: > I guess that would be SCO's "Free" Unixware. Linux is POSIX, but is it > really SVR4? (I doubt it). Not really -- you won't learn about the SVR4 service controllers, used amongst other things for tty logins and printers, for instance. This is one of the nastiest, ugliest areas of SVR4 administration, too. Has SCO finally released the Free UnixWare? Last time I checked, they had the free license to SCO OpenServer, but that is SVR3.2 with lots of hacking and gratuitous changes by SCO; not quite the same. All in all, UnixWare wasn't a bad little system when being sold by UniVel, it was just that FreeBSD was so much better, and so much cheaper. ;^) Still a bargain if you wanted to learn (or write code for) SVR4. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com