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Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea
Ashcrow writes "SCO UNIX has long boasted its 'true UNIX' code base, but is that really the case? A story running at The Jem Report looks into SCO's claims and holds it up to other UNIX variants to try and find validity for SCO's claims." The author has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but worth reading for the comparison of various *nix's.
You play as SCO.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Who cares about "feature comparison" and stuff like that.. I want benchmarks! I want to look at the pretty pictures!
I can't believe slashdot has posted another article about SCO, the Southern College of Optomertry. I mean, optometry is geeky, but I come here to read about asteroids and anime.
Suddenly SCO's web servers seem to have melted into puddles of molten metal and crispy silicon.
So he should fit right in at slashdot, right?
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Eagerly waiting to see what kind of outlandish thing SCO will do tomorrow.. they have to do something dramatic every monday, you know, or they'll fall out of the news...
And Timothy Dalton is the only true Bond, and Deep Space Nine is the only true Star Trek, and Attack of the Clones is the only true Star Wars, and vi is the only true editor, and MySQL is the only true open source database.
That's all settled now. You're welcome.
And as a server OS, SCO UNIXes are worse since not all of them (yes, they do have all different kinds - even worse) support such things as IPv6
IIt's not like the ISP is trampling down your door offering IPv6, is it?
...no matter what operating system you're running.
Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea
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We Are Familiar With Elephants By Virtue Of Their Size.
SCO UNIX has been known to make machines explode for no reason at all. I used SCO UNIX for a couple of years and it made my penis shrink 3 inches! That's right people, SCO UNIX MAKES YOUR PENIS SHRINK! SCO is soley responsible for the weak support beans that caused the World Trade Center to collapse. Use of SCO UNIX has been known to cause spontaneous herpes. Adolph Hitler is reputed to have used SCO UNIX on his IBM counting machines. SCO UNIX is responsible for all the disease, hunger and misery in the world. All of the above is completely false and made up by me. Oh, by the way, the platform is also the most awful and badly programmed UNIX platform that it has ever been my misfortune to use.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
the one about vi being the only true editor. It is. But Timothy Dalton? Jeez, you could at least have said George Lazenby.
Whether or not SCO UNIX sucks or not has no actual bearing on their lawsuit.
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Paragraph 84 of the complaint: Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car.
According to the article, it seems like Linux is the equivalent of a luxury car and SCO UNIX is the equivalent of a..... No, a bicycle is too kind of a description
I once temporarily owned an old rundown Ford Econoline. The brakes needed replacing, the battery drained because sometimes the brake lights would stay on, and there was a short in the fuse box. Kind of reminds me of SCO UNIX
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
But there are so many more choices out there, the least of which offers a dearth of advantages over SCO's Unix products.
Umm...d'ya suppose he means "wealth"?
pls mod up parent.
I'm posting this on in the company john.
Right, wrong, irrelevent. What is, is.
No, mod this up. I want to talk to Jenny.
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Using SCO software is a bad idea for the same reason Windows is a bad idea -- if you feed the alligator, the best thing you can hope for is that he'll eat you last. Sooner or later, you will get bit.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
The comparason of different UNIX flavours is a bit interesting (although I like Solaris much better than AIX, I just wish Sun was a smarter company)
It is good to note that for a company who "owns" UNIX, their offerings do suck pretty bad... No wonder they are so tee'ed off at Linux.
Rushfan
OSX is not Unix.
It may have been somewhat based on UNIX, but the way Apple mucked it up, it is decidedly not UNIX any more.
Anything requiring you to configure the OS through graphics interfaces instead of editing a file is just not UNIX.