From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 7 06:27:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17929 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu (danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu [128.151.84.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17920 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu) Received: from danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu (root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu [128.151.84.217]) by danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id JAA13471; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:22:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:22:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Berlin To: Marius Bendiksen cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.sco.com In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981007122259.00910cc0@mail.scancall.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG They have lxrun, which allows them to run linux binaries. Works pretty damn well. Then again, UnixWare 7 is an okay OS. I tried installing it on my desktop this past weekend. Wasted hours and hours, and it decided to move all my partitions around (It's stupid partitioner thinks partition 1 is 4, and vice versa), even after i said "Do Not Modify". Was great for linux, since the disks i said "Don't modify" were changed (/dev/hdc1 was now /dev/hdc3, /dev/hdc2 = /dev/hdc4). Great install program. Makes me wonder what "Don't modify" means. It can also only STILL install on disk 1, or 2. And when i bit the bullet and installed it on my laptop, it seems they've REMOVED drivers since 2.1 of unixware. Their tech support answer to "How do i get a 3c589 pcmcia card to work" is "Install the 2.1 driver". Thanks guys. So i get seven and have to have 2.1. If i wasn't a student getting this free (free=69 bucks for media, since the rising cost of 19 cent cd's these days seems to be affecting them). After all this work and toil, i find that the interface is crud, it takes me 8 times longer to do anything than on any other unix, etc. And this is supposed to be good? In short, if they ARE contributing to linux development, god help linux if they are contributing engineers. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > Perhaps someone ought to take a look at their page; they are saying that they > support Linux, w/o mention of FreeBSD? > > btw: I'm not on this list. Just thought I'd mention it. > --- > Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message