My experience doing a lot of job searching was that some of the boards work and some (i.e. monster) are crap. I did get one job through dice.com. However, craigslist.org is still the best.
The FreeBSD people have always been much friendlier to SCO than the Linux camp. I know for a fact that some at SCO have pressed for closer ties with the various BSD groups. In particular, the BSD licensing is much easier for corporate types to swallow. So why didn't that ever go anywhere?
It just goes to show that people who post replies here don't know dick about operating systems. I was a engineering consultant and software engineer for 3 years at SCO, so I think I can say I know a bit about the company. Well, here's the big surprise: some of their stuff sucks, and some of it works really well.
That isn't a surprise to anyone who really knows about the computer industry - companies all have problems. SCO's marketing is horrible - they can't sell their way out of a paper bag. Yet, people keep buying it. You know why? Because SCO OpenServer 5.x is one of the most stable and reliable Intel OS platforms you can buy. It just works, and it works forever.
Course, it's not the fastest, or the slickest, or the coolest. You really think the business world cares about all the nifty little features in Linux? They don't - they care about the bottom line. When you need stability, SCO can deliver.
So maybe you're thinking I'm some sort of SCO evangelizer? No. I don't use SCO products at all now that I've left the company. I use Linux and FreeBSD. Since I'm not running a bank, I am willing to sacrifice some reliability for all the cool little features you get with these OSes. Plus, FreeBSD is at least as stable as SCO OpenServer.
Finally, let me note that you can run all the Open Source goodies on SCO platforms. I was one of the developers who worked very hard to make that happen. Check out SCO Skunkware for the details.
MY company is running this for several remote sites and it works well. Basically you need a linux box at each location to act as a firewall/router/vpn connection. You then set up an ssh user who can get in to the main site using rsa public/private keys.
vpnstarter can be used to initiate the tunnel over ssh and monitor the link. Works well, although vpnstarter cna be a pain to set up properly.
So, open source vpn solutions do exist now, and they do work.
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My experience doing a lot of job searching was that some of the boards work and some (i.e. monster) are crap. I did get one job through dice.com. However, craigslist.org is still the best.
The FreeBSD people have always been much friendlier to SCO than the Linux camp. I know for a fact that some at SCO have pressed for closer ties with the various BSD groups. In particular, the BSD licensing is much easier for corporate types to swallow. So why didn't that ever go anywhere?
It just goes to show that people who post replies here don't know dick about operating systems. I was a engineering consultant and software engineer for 3 years at SCO, so I think I can say I know a bit about the company. Well, here's the big surprise: some of their stuff sucks, and some of it works really well.
That isn't a surprise to anyone who really knows about the computer industry - companies all have problems. SCO's marketing is horrible - they can't sell their way out of a paper bag. Yet, people keep buying it. You know why? Because SCO OpenServer 5.x is one of the most stable and reliable Intel OS platforms you can buy. It just works, and it works forever.
Course, it's not the fastest, or the slickest, or the coolest. You really think the business world cares about all the nifty little features in Linux? They don't - they care about the bottom line. When you need stability, SCO can deliver.
So maybe you're thinking I'm some sort of SCO evangelizer? No. I don't use SCO products at all now that I've left the company. I use Linux and FreeBSD. Since I'm not running a bank, I am willing to sacrifice some reliability for all the cool little features you get with these OSes. Plus, FreeBSD is at least as stable as SCO OpenServer.
Finally, let me note that you can run all the Open Source goodies on SCO platforms. I was one of the developers who worked very hard to make that happen. Check out SCO Skunkware for the details.
vpnstarter can be used to initiate the tunnel over ssh and monitor the link. Works well, although vpnstarter cna be a pain to set up properly.
So, open source vpn solutions do exist now, and they do work.