[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Christopher]

On Apr 24, 9:42 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <HUszy8ubx... at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>         koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>
> > In article <75cdvmF183os... at mid.individual.net>, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
> >> So, you have BSD, Linux and Solaris all run on the same hardware.
> >> All run the same applications.  What is the one diferentiator?
>
> >    Every teenager I know knows how to put Linux on an x86.
>
> And? Installing BSD is not any harder.  And, if there was the interest
> (by the developer, not among the users) it would take little effort
> to make an installer as easy as something like Ubuntu for FreebSD.
> After all, under the hood there really is little difference at that
> level.  
>

See PCBSD and DesktopBSD for examples.