Openserver Comparison: The Most Reliable Operating System Just Got Morepowerful

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SCO OS6 Comparison.

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RELEASE

6
THE MOST

R E L I A B L E O P E R AT I N G

SYSTEM JUST GOT

MORE POWERFUL

OpenServer 6 is the next major release of SCO OpenServer. With a decade of rock solid stability and dependability, SCO
OpenServer runs critical business applications and provides networking for millions of customers in businesses and branch
offices around the world. The SCO OpenServer 6 release adds many new features strengthening the power of UNIX .

OpenServer Comparison
Features OpenServer 5.0.7 OpenServer 6.0

Kernel System V Release 3.2 System V Release 5


Threads UDK User Level* Kernel Level and User Level
Large File Support Maximum of 2GB Maximum of 1TB
Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules No Yes
Kernel Auto Tuning No Yes
Hot Plug PCIx No Yes
Hot Plug CPU No Yes
Hot Add Memory No Yes
Encrypted Filesystem Support No Yes
IPsec and VPN Support No Yes
Multi Path I/O No Yes
Network Interface Failover No Yes
Wireless Network Card Support Prism II Prism II and Centrino
USB Printer Support No Yes
Media Less Boot TCP boot PROM PXE
Supported X Servers X11 R5 X Server X.org X11 R6 X Server
Emergency Recovery Floppy and Tape only Tape, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
File and Print Server AFPS 4 and Samba 2.28 Samba 3
Web Server Apache 1 Apache 1 and 1.3.33
Browser Mozilla 1.6* Mozilla 1.7.8
Printer Subsystems System V LP System V LP and CUPS
Java 1.4.2 Yes* Yes
Databases included in product None MySQL and PostgreSQL
NFS Version 2 3
CD/DVD Record CD record* CD and DVD record
DOS filesystem support FAT, FAT16 FAT, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, Joliet
Supported Graphical Desktops XDT3 KDE 3.3 and XDT3
PPP SCO PPP, MorningStar PPP MorningStar PPP
Bundled Support No Optional
Application Compatibility SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, SCO OpenServer 5 SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, SCO OpenServer 5, UnixWare 7
binaries and limited support for UnixWare 7 and SCO OpenServer 6 binaries
and SCO OpenServer 6 Binaries
CPU Chipset Support Intel 486, Pentium or Greater, AMD32; Intel Pentium or greater, Centrino, AMD32; Intel EM64T and
Intel EM64T and AMD64 in 32-bit mode AMD64 in 32-bit mode
Number of CPUs supported Scales up to 4 CPUs Scales well up to 16 CPUs, Supports up to 32 CPUs
Maximum Memory 4GB 16GB of General Purpose Memory, 64GB of Shared Memory
Disk Controller Support IDE and SCSI I, II and III, Fibrechannel IDE, SCSI I, II and III, Serial SCSI, SATA, I2O and Fibrechannel
and SAS for HP Proliant product
SAN Support No HP MSA1000

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* Available via maintenance pack or supplement Note: SCO Update pack features not included. 3MKT03EOS61

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