moving from SCO to Linux

Brian K. White brian at aljex.com
Fri Jul 23 14:38:37 PDT 2004


Jeremy Anderson wrote:
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> 
>> Why Mandrake as opposed to some of the more popular Linux versions?
>> SuSE seems to be highly regarded and is owned by Novell.
> 
> SuSE is a consideration as well.  I've always liked Mandrake's
> responsiveness to Security issues, and they make an excellent desktop
> implementation.  
> I was not aware that the SuSE <-> Novell thing had been finalized and
> approved by everyone. 
> As for political concerns...to each his own.
> Browsing through the list, I saw a post or two mentioning wonkiness
> with the latest version of SCO. 
> 
>> You didn't even mention the version of SCO you have - and depending
>> on the version it might be cheaper and easier to move to new HW.
>> It is important about the version - because of CPU support.
> 
> Deprived of the `uname -a` command, I find myself frustrated.

Chuckle.
Come on now,
You don't have a "man uname" command?
It doesn't show you your "uname -X" command?

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