From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 5:21:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7FB15310; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 05:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id IAA26528; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:21:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA11151; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:17:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:17:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 In-Reply-To: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a > UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I > tried installing it on a machine with two other systems installed. It > failed to install (looped trying to install drivers it didn't need). > When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot > Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on Greg, Now that you've recovered I can wax rhetoical (briefly ;-). I have run UnixWare since day 1 - when Novell bought it from USL. It had bad kernel code in version 1.1 - panic on every shutdown when it couldn't flush dirty pages. SCO cleaned that up but everything that used to be free on UW1.1 is now activated by a licence key and $$$. It's approx $795 to turn on anything (even netscape)... I run 2.1.2 on a production box - at least for now. (Moving to Slackware soon on this box...) The lamest implementation of Unix I've ever seen. Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. An example of clumsiness: the sendmail.cf file that comes stock with 2.1.2 is for OpenServer hence all paths are wrong. And, for whatever reason SCO didn't see fit to build makemap so making a mailertable is tougher than it should be...on and on... I got UW 7 in the mail (kind of like America Online). It makes a lovely ashtray. (And you can rest a pint there as well!) Cheers, Tom ------- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center ------- Thomas Good MIS Coordinator Vital Signs: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 /* Member: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message