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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!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: rdd@access4.digex.net (R. D. Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc, Subject: Re: What does the user community think? Date: 9 Mar 1997 02:55:03 -0500 Organization: Society for the Obsolescence of Obsolescence Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5ftqcn$hqm@access4.digex.net> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access4.digex.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:36266 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36758 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6258 comp.sys.sgi.misc:28955 In article <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net>, N Shaw <admin@net5.net> wrote: >We are totally a SGI & SUN house. > >I am trying out BSDI, freeBSD and SCO OS5 to see if it is feasible to >run on the INTEL platform. > >In my opinion SCO seems to be the best of the lot. Well, if you like paying extra for things that you should never, ever, have to pay extra for, like a C compiler, basic networking utilities, text processing utilities, AND if you like to work with a flavor of UNIX that began life as a piece of rubbish from Microsoft AND like to use a flavor of UNIX which is just downright peculiar, then, well, I guess that SCO is the one for you. :-) I've got some clients using SCO, and it suits their needs, mostly because there is some proprietary software that they need to run on it. However, for pleasantness of use, I'd have to say that FreeBSD and SunOS are nicer to use than many others, such as SCO, Slowaris and Linux. -- R. D. Davis http://www.access.digex.net/~rdd rdd@digex.net, rdd@mystica.uucp Computer preservationist. Many types of Home telephone: 1-410-744-7964 unwanted older computer systems disassembled, Work telephone: 1-410-744-4900 removed for free (locally) and preserved.