SCO->linux port fail

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Feb 21 12:32:42 PST 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>

> >FOLO: It's been decided, tentatively, that this is approaching  Diminishing
> >Returns, and it will be cheaper to bite the bullet and upgrade SCO to
> >5.0.7 (or 5.0.6, if I can still find oss648), and say the hell with
> >it.
> 
> It would be less expensive in the long run to upgrade FilePro to
> run on Linux than continue to beat that deceased equine.

Genix, alas, won't run on any linux newer than 2.4, which means SuSE
9.0; that's the path we've just abandoned because it was throwing
unexpected flags.

> OpenServer 5.0.6a runs fine in VMware as well, usually much
> faster than on the old, slow hardware.

I suggested to Dave jacking up their current install and sticking 
Virtualbox under it, but he didn't want to get bitten.

Cheers,
-- jra


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