moving from SCO to Linux

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The honourable and venerable Jeremy Anderson spoke thus:
>
> SuSE is a consideration as well.  I've always liked Mandrake's
> responsiveness to Security issues, and they make an excellent desktop

Responsiveness?  When SANS was still doing notifications of vendor fix
releases for vulnerabilities, Mandrake was often in the last group of
vendors to fix things.  Turbo and Connectiva were often faster.  RH and
SuSE were usually the fastest.

> Deprived of the `uname -a` command, I find myself frustrated.  Digging
> through sysadm, I have harvested the following answers:

Try uname -X on SCO.  

> UNIX System Release 4.0, UNIX System Version 3.0 On another screen, I

*laugh* THAT is outright wrong.  Not that you related it, but that it
says that anywhere.  SCO made a conscious decision NOT to go SVR4, and
everything they have is SVR3 and then custom modified by them.  They
decided to carve their own path, and at some point said as much when they
came under critiism for being late to adopt R4 standards.

I thought not even UnixWare was SVR4...just a custom SVR3.  This one I
could be wrong on.  But OpenServer is definitely R3.

Somehow I think JPR is going to hop in and clean my clock on this one, but
I distinctly remember reading an article where SCO's (the original one,
not SCOG) top people detailed why they were going their own way instead of
adopting R4.  This was some years back.

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