[buug] SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 and SSH ?

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Jan 2 13:04:43 PST 2001


begin Bill Schoolcraft quotation:

> I already have people saying "WHY DO YOU WANT TO RUN SCO ??" and then
> I ask them "Have you ???" and then they say "no" then I dismiss their
> comment.

Well, it _is_ the OS that inspired creation of the newsgroup
alt.sex.bondage.sco-unix .

Traditionally, SCO Unix (and SCO Xenix before it) has been a Unix devoid
of creature-comforts and modern features, whose marketing emphasis was
on "vertical solutions", i.e., turn-key hardware + software management
and accounting systems for particular types of business.  Therefore, it
had the reputation of being really old and crufty, and downright painful
to administer.

Two things have recently happened to change that picture.  One, they
bought the old AT&T System V codebase from Novell (who had renamed it
"UnixWare" when they bought it from Bell Labs).  Two, they took a 
major equity investment from Caldera Systems.  (I _think_ that Caldera
essentially controls them, at this point.)

Twelve years ago, Novell UnixWare was really nice, for a proprietary
Unix.  I ran it for a while.  I have no idea how it is, now, and will 
be curious to hear about it.

-- 
Cheers,     "There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a 
Rick Moen   little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider
rick at linuxmafia.com  price only are this man's lawful prey." - J. Ruskin (attr.)




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