OT: SCO Forum

[Steve Bergman]

Fairlight wrote:

> "But it's easier to use than Linux."  I actually had someone tell me that
> the other day.
Funny thing.  At the time that your email came in I was writing up a 
review on the compusa.com site about a new notebook I bought yesterday 
(Compaq Presario V2552US).  I described how I installed Ubuntu 6.06LTS 
on it and how the sound, video, usb, wired ethernet, pcmcia, suspend, 
hibernate, cdrw, sound volume control buttons, synaptics touchpad, and 
all the power management features all just worked out of the box, after 
a 12 minute install.  I described how a single script from the Ubuntu 
support forum, run once, got the wireless ethernet working using 
ndiswrapper, and how a single command went out, aquired, and installed 
the ATI video drivers to add 3D acceleration support.

 (Unreal and Quake3 run great on the ATI 200M OpenGL accelerated built 
in video, but I must emphasize that I bought the machine for serious 
*business* use and only installed Quake as a hardware stress tester, of 
course.) ;-)

I've supported OpenServer since 1988, and more or less exclusively up 
until about 1998.  I wonder what would have happened if I had installed 
the latest OpenServer on my new notebook?

Of course, OpenServer is intended to be for server use.  But even there, 
its flexibility and ease of use is lacking, and most all my users have 
migrated away from it.  Caldera/SCO could have been a real powerhouse in 
the posix-like OS space if they had played their cards right.  But they 
didn't.

It's really a shame, too.  Old SCO was a good company with a solid 
product that provided UNIX stability and capabilities at a great price 
on cost effective, easily available hardware.  And then they dug there 
own grave, and Caldera threw in the body.

Hopefully, Sun will fare better.

-Steve