-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on Dell PCs (fwd) -Reply
>Well, actually they probably would be able to since they support SCO.
Supporting SCO doesn't mean you know Linux. They'd need people who were
trained in Linux specifically.
SCO is derived from System V Release 3.2, isn't it? That's really different
than Linux's hybrid of BSD and SVR5.
Even supporting one distribution over another requires specificity.
Redhat's mix of utilities and kernel patches is different than Slackware or
Caldera, for instance, and those things *MATTER* when you're trying to
figure out why "Emacs doesn't work anymore since I installed that tape
drive" or some other weird concatenation of seemingly-unrelated hardware and
software.
And god help you if they downloaded version 3.05.92.x.3a of some utility,
when something else on the system is only tested with 3.05.92.x.2b.
And then you find that the new tape drive requires 3.05.92.x.3a, and you
have to decide whether to replace the tape drive or upgrade the *OTHER*
thing so it works with the new version.
SCO knowledge helps if the support question is "how do I change an
environment variable" but it can HURT you if the support question is "how do
I set up a printer?"
And it's little help at all with the really weird stuff.
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