FilePro Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>Move to Rocky, is my advice.

This seems to be a good choice, particularly since CentOS is
going away from what we've been used to using.

Like many on this list, the first *nix system I used was Xenix on
the Radio Shack Model 16/6000s when I was managing a Radio Shack
Computer Center in Rockville MD in late 1982.  Since then I've
been building systems on a variety of platforms:

   + SCO Xenix on Tandy systems.

   + SCO Unix and OpenServer on various Intel based systems.

   + NCR Unix in 1987 and 1988 on NCR Towers.

   + Unix on Sequent systems.

   + IBM Unix on AIX.  I liked their SMIT system which produced logs
     showing the commands used.

   + Caldera Linux from 1996 or so until the SCO purchase debacle untill
     about 2001.

   + SuSE Linux through SuSE 9 Pro (at least one of these is still in
     production).  Gave up on SuSE after bad experience with their
     treatment of resellers, and their move to the monolithic YAST system
     which wouldn't allow me to make changes by editing system files
     manually.

   + CentOS-5 through present.

   + Raspberry Pi Linux.

So far I have't looked seriously at what's next after CentOS, but
many people on the CentOS mailing list seem to like Rocky.

I'm leaning towards building systems under VMware, possibly ESXI,
which can make moves to new hardware easier.  I have a couple of
systems running under VMware in SuSE 9 Pro and OpenServer which
run accounting software under OpenServer that I wrote in 1986 or
so written in C that need database libraries that are no longer
available.  As was noted recently on this list, I think SuSE 9
Pro was the last version of Linux that would run SCO COFF
binaries allowing me to run my programs written for OpenServer
without dealing with OpenServer's licensing issues.

Bill
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