On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:55, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently one of the targets of SCO's linux licensing extortion
> > business plan, and am contemplating switching to one of the BSD's to
> > avoid any potential problems.   I'm curious which BSD people prefer for
> > large scale databases and why.  Any pointers as to which I should test out?
> 
> for the longest time, the BSDs have been split as:
> 
> FreeBSD - i386 rock solid
> NetBSD  - work on as many platforms as possible
> OpenBSD - be as secure as possible
> 
> There is alot of code sharing between them all though, so, IMHO, alot of
> it is personal preferences ... I've been using FreeBSD since '95, and
> other then having a habit of finding (and, usually pushing) its limits,
> I've been most happy with it ...
> 
> 
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Of course SCO is planning to sue the BSD users, too, so it's not really
a solution.

Just ignore them :)

        Stephen

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