Ok, how bout SuSE 9.0?

[Walter Vaughan]

Bill Vermillion wrote:

> But try not to drag me into the "My OS is better than you OS
> discussions".  They don't do much but annoy the pig.

[oink..oink]
As a platform with reasonable internet access or serving,
filePro on freeBSD seems to *me* to be a very good combination.

What's taken me many months to fully understand is that you
can almost pick an choose to run any version of the core OS
independently of the status of your ports collection.

There really is no concept needing to move back a version, since in 
order to move up a version it has to be release quality or better.
The freeBSD mafia makes it nearly impossible for someone to write what 
they think is a better version of "sliced_bread_daemon-0.7" and then the 
world discovers that "sliced_bread_daemon-0.8" causes "peanut_butter" to 
fail.

All ports are "fresh". Hence the term "freshports". But that doesn't 
mean cutting edge. It seemed to me that the ports collection didn't move 
to apache 1.3.31 until sometime in the last few days.

As far as kernel versions, you can keep as many versions around as you 
want. As far as I know, you could could reboot to a 4.0 or a 4.10-RC3 
kernel and not really know the difference other than what uname spits 
out (or if you had hardware that required a later kernel version).

I continue this discussion, since I know several readers of this list 
have almost two decades of experience with running filePro on SCO, and 
perhaps are looking for a reasonable alternatives for *new* installs.

On the otherhand if I had an install that never will see the light of 
the internet, and is already running good on 5.0.4 -> 5.0.7, then I'd 
get me a copy of the OpenServer "Classic" when it comes out, and not 
worry about anything for the next 15 years.

[oink...oink]
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Walter