[NTLUG:Discuss] here is the description of the SCO IP license

[fredjame]

Thank you for that comment.  Has anyone actually confirmed that?  And 
also, there is still the hardware compatibility issue - Linux has never 
been famous for supporting the newest hardware right away, so I have to 
assume a pre 2.4 kernel is going to have some issues with a newer machine.

Lance Simmons wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:20:20PM -0500, fredjame wrote:
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>>Now that we are all 2.4+ and using ext3, what is the best way to back
>>up to pre 2.4 and ext2?  
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>IIRC, ext3 is merely ext2 plus a journal file, so there shouldn't be any
>problem moving back to a pre-2.4 kernel -- except that you'd lose
>journalling.  If you unmount an ext3 filesystem, I think you should be
>able to immediately remount it as ext2.
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