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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5046 comp.os.linux.misc:33950 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75788 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!spasun.tpa.com.au!myall.awadi.com.au!muntries!maddinal From: maddinal@awadi.com.au (Mark Addinall) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:21:47 GMT Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3g493bINN7h3@myall.awadi.com.au> References: <3fo52q$lvp@manuel.anu.edu.au> Reply-To: maddinal@awadi.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: muntries.awadi.com.au In article lvp@manuel.anu.edu.au, nathanh@bin.anu.edu.au (Nathan Hand) writes: > Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote: > : As for the others, I haven't personally used unixware, SCO or AIX but > : those who use them tell me that they wish they were running linux... > > Just in case anyone cares: I installed my first attempt at SCO on > a 486DX33 with 16 meg back when Linux 0.96 (0.94?) was all the rage. > The Linux went onto a 386DX33 with 4 meg. Linux took less time to > install, ran faster, had nicer utilities and was stabler. The SCO > box fell over about 1 / day. Linux didnt crash -- I eventually took > Linux off the hard drive for ISC/386 without it crashing. IMO SCO SUX. > > If this is what commercial software gets you gimme freeware Linux > anyday. Even back in the pre-1.0 days it beat commercial unices. hmmmm, in a previous life, a company i worked for had 4 SCO servers in oz and a SCO server in the us and the only time we brought them dowm was to install new product.... linux is cool :-) +----------------------------+--------+---------------------------------------+ |Mark Addinall |Opinions|1. Never share a Foxhole with someone | |Senior Software Engineer | unlike | braver than yourself. | |AWA Defence Industries | ORIONS |2. Your Rifle was made by the lowest | |PH 02 8877 111 | belong | bidder. | |MOB 015 895 977 | solely |3. Teamwork is essential, it gives them| |inet: maddinal@awadi.com.au |to me| them someone else to shoot at ;-) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+