I think it depends on your use.
I use both. Our product line is still officially based on OpenUnix, but we are moving customers to OpenLinux. Our reasoning is this: OpenUnix is a server OS. Why? Look at the types of things that are bundled with it. So, when we buy OpenUnix, we buy and maybe install lots of interesting things for servers. But, ours is a desktop application. We don't need all that server stuff. OpenUnix does not have a very good desktop. On a server OS, it is probably only the sysadmin whu might use it. And, so many prefer command lines that making a nice GUI would probably not buy many points. Even though scoadmin is nice and works in X as well as console mode. The older UnixWare 1 desktop made by AT&T/Novell was much better. It was back in the days when the two felt they might enter the desktop market. So, they sold a Desktop and an Application Server. The Desktop is gone. OpenUnix is the current incarnation of the Novell UnixWare Advanced Server. Of course, both are from the original AT&T SVR4.2 tree, but the Advanced Server took a route to be best suited to servers, So, if it is a server you are after, then I would go with OpenUnix. I know OpenLinux can do server stuff quite well. Among all the other things it does well. But OpenUnix is designed from the bottom up to perform this task. And it does it very well. The types of devices that are supported are those one would use in a server. If you are after desktops, go with OpenLinux. I think even the OpenUnix people 'might' agree with that. If nothing else than because of the more varied hardware support useful in the ever changing desktop. Servers tend to be more static, and OpenUnix reflects this in driver support. JMTCW. And based on 10 years experience with OpenUnix (and the various forms SVR4.2 has taken over the years). On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:58:43 -0500 patrick kapturkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | I need your experts' advices, please. | I announced to my boss that, in my opinion, now, | OL server 3.1.1 is better than OpenUnix. | He asked me to give him the advantages and | disadvantages between these two OS. | I think that, with ext3fs and reiserfs, the last advantage | of unix is down and I don't see any more advantage for unix. | My job is the Unix platforms' integration in a good | company. We worked a lot with Sco OpenServer. | And now, we have a new generation of programs | which need data server with Oracle. | I thank that OpenUnix 8 was the new good idea but | I prefer OpenLinux 3.1.1 now. Even oracle has | a linux version on OpenUnix. | But if I see that unix is better, I'll keep it. | Thanks in advance. | Patrick | | ______________________________________________________ | E-mail gratuit - Multimania - http://www.multimania.fr | | -- ===================================================================== Roger Oberholtzer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPQ Systems AB WWW: http://www.opq.se Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 115 32 Stockholm Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 Sweden Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
