Per the http://www.sco.com/buy/ on the SCO website: "Free licenses of SCO OpenServerTM and UnixWare 7 operating systems are fully functional with the only restriction being that they be used for personal and non- commercial use." So, for home use ... http://shop.caldera.com/caldera/offers.html and get the 'free' license. Their CD set, costing US$49 comprises "The SCO OpenServer media kit" - a 6 CD software package which is accompanied by a system handbook and release notes. It consists of 1 system CD, 1 bootdisk, SCO=AE Vision software, SCO OpenServer Supplements, SCO OpenServer Optional Services, UnixWare and OpenServer Development Kit, and Skunkware 98. Not exactly *free* but a consideration for some perhaps ... I'm not a fan of any particular Unix OS - I just happened to fall into a software-support role on a system wherein 6-SCO (yes, six) boxes (running on 150 MHz Pentiums) were tied back into a pair of Sun boxes which maitained a disk farm which in turn was tied back into a hardware redundant Sun (an "ft-Sparc") which ran an Oracle database that kept 'call'/voice mail status and subscriber records ... The SCO boxes handled 'line' (ISDN) interface, ISDN line supervision, etc, and acted as the front end for a voice mail system originally designed/built by Atlas Telecom before maintenance was assumed by DSC/Alcatel for a customer in Japan. Each SCO box ran an app that ran a 'compiled script' that controlled call state progression and handshaking with the ISDN D-channel. Atlas went under because of 'SW maintenence issues' on this monster. I knew why a month into the role ... Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Fosdick" To: Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: OS vehicles Jim wrote: > > BSD ? > > Then there is always "SCO" ... Yeah, but you'd have to pay for that. FreeBSD, is well, free. Of course, so are OpenBSD and NetBSD. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.