Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:17:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990618070811.11109A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.3.96.990618070811.11109A-100000>