From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 15 4:50:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (hide14.nhs.uk [194.6.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FA914C82 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 04:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk) Received: from greg (gquinlan [194.81.0.56]) by amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA31793 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:48:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <025d01beb725$37acd860$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: References: <19990612223456.B210@caamora.com.au> <199906121513.IAA25324@kusanagi.boing.com> <19990613172117.D1670@caamora.com.au> <3764AE53.4FB4A94A@telspace.alcatel.fr> <19990614181836.A19492@ipass.net> <37660EE7.FDC8F664@telspace.alcatel.fr> Subject: Linux not FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:50:08 +0100 Organization: Queen Mary's Hospital (SWLCT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, This might give people a little bit of a laugh (not really for this forum): Here is SCO (the Serious Commercial Organisation of the free software rip-offs merchants) Saying they are adding Linux compatibility.... well, well... could not be bothered doing their own thing anymore with free software source and decided to do some alignment with free software developers, and OS's so it wil make their product more attractive. But why Linux and not FreeBSD also? Well FreeBSD is compatiable with SCO (after they patched the OS to be compatiable with themselves ;) * SLS oss472a: Binary Misrecognition Patch ) They should atleast reciprocate!!! (very brief) http://www.sco.com/press/releases/1999/6849.html Greg ps. Patches to their last release SCO OSR5.0.4: app479a* oss449f* oss459b* oss463b* oss465b* oss467a* oss470a* oss469c* oss470a* oss471c* oss472a* oss475a* oss476a* oss478a* oss480a* oss481a* oss485a* oss491a* oss495c* oss496a* oss601a* And you were worried about FreeBSD stability? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message