MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools & Education) is a nonprofit in New York City that donates equipment. training, time and large volunteer infrastructure building projects to inner city schools throughout the NY Metro area. You might consider contacting them to see if they know of similar organizations in your area.
As far as I can tell the only thing in the directory is the readme. I'm pretty jazzed to try this out and have all the fun and thrills of a not-really-released-yet kernel... but hmmm, no tarball. Am I reading Linus' readme incorrectly? Doesn't it say "there's a 2.4.0-test1 kernel here"? I assumed that the "doesn't really exist yet" statement meant that its not really the actual 2.4 release and that the later statement is an exception to "... doesn't exist...". Or does the first statement override all later statements? Anyway... if anyone knows where it actually is could you let us know?
My experiences with SCO have been similar. Ugly memory problems embarrassingly poor documentation and extremely vexing, unhelpful, condescending and astronomically priced tech support.
FWIW the "free" version of SCO mentioned in the article is locked into a single user license mode. Its really just a toy for students.
Oracle runs on every distribution I have. Netscape communicator 4.5 runs on RH, Debian and SuSE. And it worked on my RH box before and after upgrading from 2.0.36 to 2.2.
Pre compiled products can statically link and run most anywhere.
If the authors are dieing to ship a smaller more elegant chunk of code... let them join the open source movement.
OpenServer is not a fantastic viciously cool mindblowing product, but it works for the most part if you do things the SCO way. Like AIX, OpenServer is not the UNIX most likely to be chosen for a project by a seasoned admin with wide experience with a number of different UNIXen its a bit odd to admin, and skills taken from Solaris, BSD variants and Linux are liable to mess you up instead of help you. But its not the sort of horrifying abomination that NT is. SCO's purchase of UnixWare can only be seen as a good thing. UnixWare foundered under Novell. Its was barely supported, inexpertly maintained, mismarketed and essentially treated like a red headed stepchild. SCO has put real energy into UnixWare, and whether or not their company survives has become tied to the success of UnixWare. Why is that a good thing? Because UnixWare is the one and only direct line decendant of ATT SysV, and it would have been evil and stupid if Novell had just let it die like it seemed they were going to. So is this a win for Linux? Um... not really... but its a win for *nix, because it helps to keep one more flavor alive.
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MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools & Education) is a nonprofit in New York City that donates equipment. training, time and large volunteer infrastructure building projects to inner city schools throughout the NY Metro area.
You might consider contacting them to see if they know of similar organizations in your area.
As far as I can tell the only thing in the directory is the readme. I'm pretty jazzed to try this out and have all the fun and thrills of a not-really-released-yet kernel... but hmmm, no tarball.
Am I reading Linus' readme incorrectly? Doesn't it say "there's a 2.4.0-test1 kernel here"? I assumed that the "doesn't really exist yet" statement meant that its not really the actual 2.4 release and that the later statement is an exception to "... doesn't exist...".
Or does the first statement override all later statements?
Anyway... if anyone knows where it actually is could you let us know?
My experiences with SCO have been similar. Ugly memory problems embarrassingly poor documentation and extremely vexing, unhelpful, condescending and astronomically priced tech support.
FWIW the "free" version of SCO mentioned in the article is locked into a single user license mode.
Its really just a toy for students.
Oracle runs on every distribution I have.
Netscape communicator 4.5 runs on RH, Debian and SuSE.
And it worked on my RH box before and after upgrading from 2.0.36 to 2.2.
Pre compiled products can statically link and run most anywhere.
If the authors are dieing to ship a smaller more elegant chunk of code... let them join the open source movement.
OpenServer is not a fantastic viciously cool mindblowing product, but it works for the most part if you do things the SCO way.
Like AIX, OpenServer is not the UNIX most likely to be chosen for a project by a seasoned admin with wide experience with a number of different UNIXen its a bit odd to admin, and skills taken from Solaris, BSD variants and Linux are liable to mess you up instead of help you.
But its not the sort of horrifying abomination that NT is.
SCO's purchase of UnixWare can only be seen as a good thing. UnixWare foundered under Novell. Its was barely supported, inexpertly maintained, mismarketed and essentially treated like a red headed stepchild.
SCO has put real energy into UnixWare, and whether or not their company survives has become tied to the success of UnixWare.
Why is that a good thing?
Because UnixWare is the one and only direct line decendant of ATT SysV, and it would have been evil and stupid if Novell had just let it die like it seemed they were going to.
So is this a win for Linux? Um... not really... but its a win for *nix, because it helps to keep one more flavor alive.