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They Make Stuff? SCO's OpenServer 6 Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the make-messes-in-sandboxes dept.

turnitover writes "And here I thought their revenue was all based on projected lawsuit returns. But no, The SCO Group actually has turned out something that does something -- or does it? In any case, looks like eWEEK has reviewed OpenServer 6. From the review: though the company 'seems like an unlikely outlet for open-source software, the company has extended OpenServer with updated versions of Samba, Perl, PHP and other key components.'"

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  1. Um...yea. by HaeMaker · · Score: 4, Informative
    OpenServer administrators will be pleased to see that Version 6 supports dynamically loading kernel modules. Previously, basic operations in OpenServer, such as changing the IP address of an Ethernet device, required kernel relinking and a reboot--an inconvenience that's no longer required.
    No comment.
    1. Re:Um...yea. by sconeu · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, that wasn't quite true. If you used the kernel sockets layer (ksl), then yeah, you did need to relink. If you used the old-fashioned user mode IP configuration, you didn't.

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      General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
  2. GCC didn't by antientropic · · Score: 3, Informative

    GCC did not get an "anti-SCO" clause, as that would be incompatible with the GPL. They did consider dropping support for SCO from the compiler, but eventually decided not to take action.