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Re: SCO Unix vs. Linux



Meir Litmanovich wrote:

> > Does any one have experience with SCO Unix and can compare it to Linux
> > on similar platforms? Any information will be appreciated, especially
> > URLs to such comparisons or benchmarks.

> I don't have such experience in SCO ,but as I understand from proffesional
> talks on this topics at russian newsgroups (relcom.fido.ru.unix ) the
> best way you can do to SCO is to apply an BRM patch "rm -rf / " :-) .
> And put Linux on it's place . As I know there are no Netscape there ,no

1. There *IS* Netscape, better than Linux' version (fully dynamic,
etc.).
   All the other Netscape products (e.g. proxies, servers) are available
   too, contrary to Linux.

> normal C compiler until you'll compile by yourself GCC and so on ...

2. There is a built-in compiler, which is very good (although it was
   developed by Microsoft (!!!) ). It is faster than gcc, and the
   generated code is cleaner. There is a debugger too, and other
   development aides.

> Also ,as you may-be know Linux is able to run most of SCO'ish programs .
> So ,you can choose ...  ;-) .

3. In spite of the comments I had to fix here, Linux is much better
   than SCO. SCO's niche is for:

   a. People who look for a very (too?) stable UNIX.
   b. People who need a specific commercial application which is
      available only under SCO (and there are many, and only some
      of them can be run under Linux).
   c. Software houses which need SCO for porting purposes (like me...).
   d. People who need a commercial UNIX (army, etc.), and Solaris
      and/or Caldera are not suitable for them (BTW: there is a
      freeware SCO too, limited to 2 user and only for edu etc.).
   e. People who need an easy installation (only on standard conf!).

When the installations of all my OSs (Linux, Solaris, SCO, Win95) will
be completed, I'll summarize the pros and cons of them. I don't think
SCO will gain high results...

P.S.  When you run "rm -rf / ", please ignore warnings like "Could not
      remove /bin/rm and/or /unix", etc.    :-)

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