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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!news.interactive.net!onyx.interactive.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Mauritz <ritz@interactive.net> Subject: Re: FBSD Future... X-Nntp-Posting-User: ritz Sender: news@interactive.net (System Administrator) Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <Dz681I.9M2@interactive.net> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <53kr8l$pkt@newsbr.eunet.fr> X-Trace: 845137205/9924 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: onyx.interactive.net Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 16:20:06 GMT Frederic MARAND <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote: :)le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: :)>Well,I see that the expected release of 2.2 has been pushed back from :)>late summer '96 to first quarter '97,quite a jump,and I wonder what :)>more there is to it past Walnut Creek's desire to keep the CDROMs :)>semi-annual. :)Remember SCO now offers a free license of its Open Server for :)personal, study, research. :)I think this will probably diminish the needs of many FreeBSD/Linux :)users to get these OSes: only people really wishing to tinker with :)kernel code will stick to the really free OSes. Most people run them :)to get unix apps running, not for the sake of debugging kernels. Not so fast (literally). There's also the folks that want/need to meet some set of minimum performance criteria. SCO is an absolute slug. I really don't care if it can run WordPerfect out of the box if it's faster to run it using my 486 laptop running Win 3.1. Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@interactive.net | finger/mail info@interactive.net OR IBS Interactive, Inc. | http://www.interactive.net/