Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2018, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Some people coming out of the SCO world seem to like SuSE, but not me. I
>> support it because running on Ubuntu and SuSE generate sales for us.
>> 
>> Tom Podnar
>> Microlite Corporation

>SUSE made a lot of inroads via the Netware users.   Schools and companies
>who were Netware users took to Suse because Novell was integrating Netware
>into Suse.  I don't recall any of my SCO customers or the other SCO users
>in the Northeastern Wisconsin Sysop group migrating to Suse.  Every SCO
>installation that I knew about went to Redhat.

We went with Caldera Linux initially, largely as they were
targeting SCO resellers, and it looked like they had a sane
approach to Linux in a business environment.

After the SCO<>Caldera debacle, we moved to SuSE as they seemed
to be aimed at a stable business system.  There was a period when
SuSE decided to go to monolithic configuration a la the Windows
Registray (and today's systemd?) where their configuation stuff
would overwrite manually edited files.  After many complaints,
they ditched that, going back to a system that didn't nuke
manually edited files.  The final straw for me was when we were
enrolled in some fairly expensive plans with them, but then
couldn't work with their updates. 

We still have some SuSE Pro 9 systems running in VMware VMs as
it's the most recent Linux I know of that supports iBcs allowing
us to run SCO COFF binaries (not to mention a few SLES9 boxes
that just won't die :-).

We went to CentOS from SuSE as this free offshoot of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux promised to be pretty stable, and well suited to
business applications.  It also helps that it's an RPM based
system, although pretty much all of our stuff is built around the
OpenPKG portable packaging system which is also RPM based.

Currently I've built the OpenPKG system on the Debian based
Raspberry Pi 3 B+, and am in the process of getting our
environment built under that.  I'm building gcc as we speak,
which is a lengthy proposition on that.

Bill
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