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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:39:54 GMT
>> On 15 Oct 1996 11:31:05 GMT, borjam@well.com (Borja Marcos) said:
BM> Frederic MARAND (fgm@osinet.fr) wrote:
BM> : le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:
BM> : Remember SCO now offers a free license of its Open Server for
BM> : personal, study, research.
BM> : I think this will probably diminish the needs of many FreeBSD/Linux
BM> : users to get these OSes: only people really wishing to tinker with
BM> : kernel code will stick to the really free OSes. Most people run them
BM> : to get unix apps running, not for the sake of debugging kernels.
BM> Humm. I don't think so. Free OSs are MUCH better than the
BM> majority of the commercial offering. (Just compare OS/2 or Windows 95
BM> to a free OS...)
I agree. I installed the free SCO and was very dissapointed. Both
Linux and FreeBSD are much nicer and more efficient. Linux in
particular has many more drivers for all kinds of hardware.
SCO was able to make my Pentium with 48MB RAM and fast SCSI-2 feel
really slow.
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