Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:24:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jack Winslade <jsw@cywub.sitel.net>, Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com> Cc: freebsd@netsys.hn, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990105102424.Z70886@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901041637.QAA29532@cywub.sitel.com>; from Jack Winslade on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:37:36AM -0600 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990104165116.23312A-100000@orion.smlt.com> <199901041637.QAA29532@cywub.sitel.com>
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On Monday, 4 January 1999 at 10:37:36 -0600, Jack Winslade wrote: >> Is there a "shareware" copy available for SCO UNIX? just that I'll like to >> get to know it better, many other ISP's in our area run it and I'll like >> to give it a try, funny thing though, they were quite busy at Christmas >> :-)) LOL! > > SCO has the reputation of being somewhat unstable. In all fairness to > SCO, I think lots of this has to do with the customer's misconfiguration. Well, I haven't heard of this reputation. > I've seen many SCO installations that were unstable, but were > improved significantly by doing some simple kernel tweaking, > especially in the network area. I've used SCO a lot (XENIX, UNIX System V.3.2 (``Open deathtrap'') and UnixWare). XENIX was a good system in its time (early 80s), but it outlived its time. SCO UNIX (ODT) was too non-standard (we mainly preferred Inactive UNIX). UnixWare was originally Univel, then Novell. All the systems have performance problems, but I didn't find them overly unreliable, with the exception of UnixWare 1.0, but that's more likely to be the number than the name. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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