Subj : life, then end and everything
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Sat Jun 07 2003 03:39 pm

 Hello !

06 Jun 03 12:40, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 LG>> My choice for going with the *BSD product is because the BSD source
 LG>> tree has been around forever, it's a true Unix, it's derived
 LG>> directly from the original AT&T Unix, and it's very easy to
 LG>> install.
If you look at the case against BSD (way back when), you will see that any code 
from the original unix has been (had to be) removed from BSD.

 LG> Unfortunately, there's always the possibility that IBM /did/ convert
 LG> some AIX code into the Linux kernel, and if so -- if that really did
 LG> happen, I'd want to be as far away from a Linux installation as possible
 LG> until I see exactly who the SCO Group is going to aim their poison darts
 LG> at after IBM.

Don't forget that there is another possibility: that SCO, when it was still 
called Caldera, put it in there itself. If you look at the press release, the 
publicly avowed goal of Caldera when they embraced Linux was to "blend the two 
technologies together".
As for IBM putting AIX code in Linux, I personnally doubt it. The two systems 
have rather different underlying philosophies as far as design goes.

 RJT>> I've not gotten the impression that there are really that much in
 RJT>> the way of differences between them.

 LG> Very few of the Linux distributions available today are entirely
 LG> "without cost" to the end user.
I'd say you've been misinformed.
 LG>  Many of them are only available through retail or direct sale
 LG> channels.
no. As per the distribution licence, there has to be a version available, most 
make it available by download.


 RJT>> I suspect that they're all good products, and that there might be
 RJT>> choices as to which would be better in certain applications...
 LG> Exactly. I agree.
I think we all agreeon that :-)



 Francois Thunus

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