moving from Sco to Linux

[Fairlight]

With neither thought nor caution, Bill Campbell blurted:
> I think that SuSE is far and away the best engineered of the Linux
> distributions so would probably have chosen it in any case.

I'd have to concur there, from everything I've seen.  RPM-versioning aside
(and I know you use addpkg instead for many things), their stuff is really
nice and solid.  The whole system was well designed compared to others.  I
far prefer it to any RH version I've used, much less any other dist.

> Furthermore, the future support of open source project such as Samba on SCO
> products is doubtful.  That's not to say that it won't be possible to use
> open source software on it, but it's very likely to be much more difficult
> as the project's developers have been actively actively attacked by SCOG's
> litigators.

And even the FSF is at least reviewing their options.  One of the later
versions of gcc I downloaded to compile for SCO5 had a note in the dist
about the litigation and it seemed to imply (from memory) that support for
SCO may actually be pulled from the gcc distribution, but would stay for
now.

mark->
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