From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 15:55:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25503 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:55:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25487 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04283; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:24:25 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA73390; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:24:25 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990105102424.Z70886@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:24:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jack Winslade , Quintin Oliver Cc: freebsd@netsys.hn, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD References: <199901041637.QAA29532@cywub.sitel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199901041637.QAA29532@cywub.sitel.com>; from Jack Winslade on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:37:36AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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