Well, I use BSD via Mac OS X. Linux on my office workstations (two of them). Don't be affected by the SCO-brouhaha! :-)
--o000o-- Prof. Rommel Palma Feria, MSc Director, University Computer Center University of the Philippines - Diliman Quezon City 1101 Philippines Voice: +63 2 9268837 Fax: +63 2 9204803 ----------------------------------------- Original Message: From: JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri Aug 08 06:01:13 EST 2003 Subject: [plug] (Beyond Linux) Is It Time for BSD? http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=43861,00.asp --------------------- June 23, 2003 Is It Time for BSD? By Jim Rapoza The intellectual property claims of SCO against Linux are very likely to backfire. But SCO's aggressive legal tactics have still put a chill on Linux deployments. In many cases, upper management and corporate lawyers have been spooked by SCO's scare tactics and are putting the kibosh on Linux usage until the smoke clears. However, the alternative is not necessarily Microsoft Windows for servers and applications. There are other open-source operating systems that in many enterprise implementations have a better track record than Linux. What's more, these operating systems have already survived the legal trial by fire that Linux is enduring. The operating systems I'm talking about are all members of the BSD family. Without getting into too much historic detail, BSD's origins go back to the 1970s, when it was developed at the University of California at Berkeley and became known <snipped> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using DeskNow Lite - Free mail & collaboration server http://www.desknow.com -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
