We all need to set aside our differences and support right to repair
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WTF. I guarantee me and my dad could fix a fucking Linux anything better than some technician who went to a class and knows nothing about computers. I have 30 fucking years playing with BSDi, HP-UX, SCO, FreeBSD, and Linux systems. Hell my very first computer was SCO Xenix. Linux didn't even fucking exist. Guess who gave it to me? My dad.
I'm headed down to the farm when I move so I guess I'll run into this bullshit soon enough.
SCO - have not heard that in a while - is it still supported? I was an application guy, not systems, back in the day but it seems like SCO was popular in certain sectors because you could get a source copy and make mods + multi-user on a PC. Sorry for the aside - just curious for info from someone more current - I left that life in '93 when things were shifting from text based to WYSIWYG. I worked mostly in the DEC world.
SCO was great up until the late 90s when they were bought out and decided to ditch their old version because it was too hard to upgrade it and bought a monstrosity that barely worked. At the time I wasn't really tracking what SCO was doing and assumed it was still a great OS. I took a job working with it and the biggest problem was that it's network drivers were just utter shit. We were doing Y2K upgrades and the OS itself was the problem. I tried to convince them to let me use FreeBSD and of course they wouldn't.
That's why you don't hear about SCO any more. They imploded. By Y2K their products were junk. I saw it first hand. With Linux and FreeBSD out there and free with no licenses etc there just wasn't a market for it any more.
Thanks for the SCO history lesson, fren.
You can probably make a living jailbreaking tractors.