alexk@otc.otca.oz.au (Alex Kowalenko) (02/06/91)
I'm looking for peoples reactions and experiences with SCO's ODT (Open DeskTop) Package. It supposed to include SCO Unix, TCP/IP NFS, LAN Manager, X Windows, OSF Motif, and Ingres for a nice price.
How good is it?
Is the SCO Unix compilant to SYSV3.2 can you get things like some of the GNU software to compile OK
How's the Ingres database.
It looks like a nice package to play around with Unix/X11/Ingres at home for a sort of at home price.
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In article <2269@otc.otca.oz> alexk@otc.otca.oz.au (Alex Kowalenko) writes: | How good is it? | Is the SCO Unix compilant to SYSV3.2 can you get things like some | of the GNU software to compile OK The GNU stuff can be compiled, but you can probably get most of it ready to run if you have ftp. The only hangup is the security in ODT, which interferes with some fast and loose system administration practices. The development set has both the SCO and AT&T C compilers, the SCO one will cross compile to Xenix{2,3}86, OS/2, and DOS. I find that very useful. | How's the Ingres database. Rudimentary. | It looks like a nice package to play around with Unix/X11/Ingres at | home for a sort of at home price. It comes with X11R3. You can get X11R4 (patches to make it work were posted to comp.sources.x) and you may be able to get a drop in version via ftp. Rowell's server runs on it, that's nice. The ODT development set has MOTIF, and you can get Athena widgets by signing a non-disclosure (yes, on public domain software) or just compiling everything yourself. For a home hacking, playing, learning system I might go with Dell V.4. It has newer, better, more complete versions of X stuff, includes lots of stuff like GNUemacs and C news, has DOSmerge, and the price is about the same. I hope to find a good way to add the SCO development set to it without losing the V.4 stuff, so I can cross compile things. If anyone has done this, please let me know. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me