Comparing Linux To System VR4

robyannetta writes "Paul Murphy from LinuxInsider.com asks the question What's the difference between Linux and System VR4? From the article: 'If there's a real bottom line here, the one thing I'm clear on is that I haven't found it yet, but the questions raised have been more interesting that the answers -- so more help would be welcomed.'"

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[niteice]

Well, Linux can be downloaded in a friendly ISO format, but my SVR4 2.1 disks are in some wierd-ass format I can't use with anything except this one german program.

The difference is...

[FiReaNGeL]

That everyone says "What you said?" when they're asked about VR4.

Lets compare apples to apples, would'ya?

The difference is...

[mrogers]

You can't buy SVR4 bumper stickers.

SVR4

[tuxter]

Sounds like a new performance vehicle.

Re:What does this say?

[ScrewMaster]

Well, doing a little reading between the lines, as it were, I think what he's really saying is "I want to pay off my mortgage early and this is the best way I've found to do it."

Re:The guy's a phony.

[ScrewMaster]

Yeah, well ... this guy is threading water and he's losing ground by the minute.

Euh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not a native english speaker but does anybody can make head or tail of whatever he says?

On the other hand he seems a credible source of insight, being the author of the best seller "The Unix Guide to Defenestration". That my friends is a book I missed, somehow. Here's the beginning of the blurb for the book:

This book explains that most commercial systems work disappoints because the incentives favor exactly the kind of continuous low level failure we usually see. Systems management careers are enhanced by budget growth and staff expansion, both of which are maximized by maintaining a level of non performance that teeters on the edge of catastrophe. Correspondingly, systems budgets and staffing levels, and therefore management careers, are diminished by successful execution of the cost reduction, or cost avoidance, mandates that normally go with the job.

Maybe it's just me...

Re:The difference is...

[0racle]

Apples are BSD based not SysV.