SCO [was Re: OS choices [was Re: OpenBSD 2.7 is out]]

[datawolf@ibm.net]

Mike Cantrell wrote:
> 
> My job requires administration of about 60 SCO servers running SCO
> OpenServer 5.0.x (my experience actually goes back to xenix). I can honestly
> say that SCO is nearly as bad as Microsoft in some respects.
> 
> 1) It's patching system is horrid. For instance, one patch for 5.0.2 fixed
> some network bugs but after you applied the patch, you can't change the IP
> address of the NIC without uninstalling the patch, and then re-installing it
> after the change.
> One patch (OSS497C) caused printers to start duplicating themseleves. Plenty
> of other problems as well (such as breaking the compiler, etc.) When we get
> a patch, we're not sure if we should load it or not... is it going to break
> more than it fixes?

And the Y2K patch broke SMP.

-BVG