Alternatives that don?t suck?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:38:13AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
>> 
>> FYI - Caldera eDesktop 2.4 is still available from CheapBytes!  (I'm not
>> sure about the legality, however.)
>
>But it's old and crufty at this point.

So am I.  What's your point? :-).

We ran eDesktop 2.4 on a $60 used HP Vectra with a Sangoma T1
card as our router until about a year ago when we switched
providers, getting a channel bank that splits voice and data so
we don't have to access the T1 directly.

We had a Caldera 1.3 system running on a Pentium 75 handling
dialup uucp and HylaFAX, only retiring it about 18 months ago.

We have a few SuSE 9.0 Pro systems running today for applications
that require running old SCO COFF binaries under linux-abi.

Bill
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