Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 00:11, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:37:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:32, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels.
[snip]
> > How does the lack of modern features (USB2.0, ieee1394, DVD, etc)
> > in 2.2 stack up against FreeBSD-current?
>
> 2.2 can support ieee1394 and DVD playback (with patches in common use
> if they're not yet mainstream) -- I don't know the status of DVD
> filesystems or USB2.0.
>
> FreeBSD supports all of the above.
>
> Do you suspect there could be a long enough delay between releasing
> the alleged infractions and producing a clean kernel that fully
> changing OSes could make sense, however?
We'll just have to wait and see how many of SCO's allegations are
valid. That's the only thing to do. Can you imagine, though,
Mandrake FreeBSD????
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