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#1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:54 PM

I would like to load SCO Unix, where can I get disks?. Do I have to
buy, or I can request SCO to send me one copy. Anybody habe any idea
how is the stability compare to IBM and Sun?. Thanks in advance.

basically I would like to load couple of flavors of UNIX, which are
freely available to play with Admin and Network side. Thanks again.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:54 PM

santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:

> I would like to load SCO Unix, where can I get disks?. Do I have to
> buy, or I can request SCO to send me one copy. Anybody habe any idea
> how is the stability compare to IBM and Sun?. Thanks in advance.
>
> basically I would like to load couple of flavors of UNIX, which are
> freely available to play with Admin and Network side. Thanks again.
>
from what I recall, you can't download SCO - you have to buy it.
STability is pretty good, makes great server...

Solaris has new versions that are FAR superior to SCO and you can
download them for free.

If this isn't work related, I'd suggest getting Solaris and some *BSD's.
Freebsd, Openbsd, Netbsd.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:54 PM

This is not related to work, I am looking for free Unix, we would like
to learn Unix-Administration, I couldn't afford to buy it, Please
suggest me. I would liek to change my field to Unix admin, which had
more jobs I believe. Thanks in advance.

#4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:54 PM

santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:
> This is not related to work, I am looking for free Unix, we would like
> to learn Unix-Administration, I couldn't afford to buy it, Please
> suggest me. I would liek to change my field to Unix admin, which had
> more jobs I believe. Thanks in advance.
>

SCO's products aren't free (in either sense of the word!) Unless you
have a real need to learn Unixware or Openserver you'd best look elsewhere.

If you want to play with Unix without spending much money I'd suggest
you obtain a Linux distribution or one of the BSD variants. You can
download Linux from Suse or Fedora if you want something close to the
major business oriented Linux distributions. Ask in one of the Linux and
BSD newsgroups for more advice.

I'd visit Sun's website for information on obtaining Solaris for x86.

#5 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:54 PM

santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:

> This is not related to work, I am looking for free Unix, we would like
> to learn Unix-Administration, I couldn't afford to buy it, Please
> suggest me. I would liek to change my field to Unix admin, which had
> more jobs I believe. Thanks in advance.
>
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

here is the link for solaris, get the latest (version 10)

http://www.freebsd.org/where.html

http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html

http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/

Learning solaris is always good.
The others (BSD's)you see in the more 'enlightened' data centers.

Linux is getting very popular also.

http://www.novell.com/products/linux...nux/index.html

I really like Suse, now owned by Novell.

http://www.xandros.com/about/downloads.html

this is another excellent choice

http://www.mandriva.com/

still another great choice

there is also redhat, in the US it's very popular - but Suse is much
nicer IMHO. Redhat doesn't have YAST, this makes Suse very user friendly.

http://www.redhat.com/fedora/

On the linux side, you have many to choose from. Try out as many as you
like! See which one you prefer and have fun with it. See also Knoppix,
Gentoo.

good luck,

Oskar

#6 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:55 PM

Appreciated for the links. I am thanking you all.

#7 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 04:55 PM

santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:
> This is not related to work, I am looking for free Unix, we would like
> to learn Unix-Administration, I couldn't afford to buy it, Please
> suggest me. I would liek to change my field to Unix admin, which had
> more jobs I believe. Thanks in advance.
>

Well, you can get limited time demos for $99.00 but I really wouldn't
bother. Unixware is very similar to Solaris (which you can get free)
and if you ever did need to administer an OpenServer system, what you
learned from Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD (and perhaps a quick visit to
http://aplawrence.com/newtosco.html) would be enough to get you going.

If you are already somewhat comfortable in Unix, run through
http://aplawrence.com/Tests/SCO - if you aren't immediately totally
confused, you know enough.

--
Tony Lawrence
Unix/Linux/Mac OS X resources: http://aplawrence.com

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