Where to for the little people [Was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] found this on SCO vs Linux]

[Tom Adelstein]

fredjame at concentric.net wrote:

> All (off track) discussion of whether or not to shut up aside, the 
> orginal intent was to open a discussion on what options one might have 
> when standing face to face with "raging beast".  For example, if faced 
> with the choice of either MS or SCO, would there not also at least be 
> the option to not use computers, no matter how painful that may seem?  
> But (while expressing my desire for the defeat of SCO's ugly MO) my 
> original point of departure was to wonder out loud if dropping back to 
> a kernel < 2.4 would be enough to fend off the "monster under the 
> bed".  Probably an unanswerable question, but the really the point is 
> to do the "what if" game.  And I will admit that if the choice is to 
> shutup or stop using Linux, the choice I make could also be "non of 
> the above", and you might not care for the choice I make.

Your points all have significant merit. If you intend to idea shop, then 
invite input. We could all consider such ideas as adopting FreeBSD. I 
even went to MicroCenter to look at their offering. Having used it in 
the past, I shuttered as I read the box.

I downloaded Solaris 9 and it failed to recognize my fairly generic 
Pentium IV Intel motherboard and my DDR 266 memory. I tried it on a 
P-133 pentium IV and it didn't see the video chip.

I have XP running on a partition which I used to scan and fax or test 
something. I consider it and everything else I've used from Microsoft 
something of a broken toy. I have MS certs and have run two medium sized 
networks. I don't consider that an option.

I have a Mac cube running OS X 10.2 with all the patches and 1GB of RAM. 
It's nice, but it's not Linux. Aside from that, the Open Group is going 
after Apple for more than what SCO is threatening.

Let's see some alternatives.