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From: lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu (Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 16 Jan 1995 14:43:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 14 Jan 1995 19:20:53 GMT

In article <3f986l$m20@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <LEWIS.95Jan14120836@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu>,
>Lewis <lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu> wrote:
>>It is, and it's very nice, and all.  I just spent last night
>>re-installing an SCO system for a client, and it's not all that bad,
>>really.  No, really.  The administration tools are reasonable, and if
>>you follow the documentation closely, everything is reasonably easy.
>Sigh.  Another happy SCO user who's never actually tried to any
>serious *development* on it.. SCO Open Death Trap - just say
>NO! :-)

Actually, I'm not a happy SCO user.  The only thing I can see going
for it is that if you follow the docs, you can get things working
pretty quickly.  I've never developed anything in it, and I never ever
want to.

Also, everyone currently connected with the system isn't happy with
the fact that it's there.  It's what they have, it works, that's about
it.  They had the system crash, and needed someone to get it working.
I just happened to be the only person that knew anything about unix
that they knew about.

>[I worked on the SCO port of Lotus NOTES - I've done my time! :-)]

Development?  On SCO?  I'm not crazy!  I _like_ working under Linux.

--
Lewis Tanzos - lewis@ds9.lesn.lehigh.edu - ljt3@lehigh.edu