Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:04 pm, robin wrote: > I'll be > happy to test anything that doesn't blow up my monitor (remembering the > good old days when you edited a modeline and said a prayer before typing > "startx"). > > Sir Robin It's not an LG monitor, is it? -- cmg Want to buy your P

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:16 pm, robin wrote: > It's "viruses", not "vira". "Vira" would be the > plural of "virum", not "virus". "Virii" is also wrong (it > would be the plural of "virius"). "Viri" would be possible, > though I've never seen it in a dictionary. Acknowledged, sir Robin.

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread robin
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:38 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:04, robin wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > >>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >> > >>>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > >>> > According to this artic

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread robin
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse for $210 million: http://zdnet.com.com/21

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:38 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: >What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong > Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put > about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been > acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux support grou

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread Franki
Tom Brinkman wrote: So y'all can help, or give up. One or the other, no free rides. Join the Club, but also, tom $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 got goin yesterday. Install an test it, specially those with ready made marginal hardwar

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread finalfiler
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:05:15 -0500 This is really good news. Novell and Suse together can really put the boots to MS in the server *and* desktop markets, esp. with the Ximian acquisition. Expect the price of official distros to rise, although I don't think I'd mind that if the pr

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread Aronsmith
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse > > > for $210 million: > > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread lduvall
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: >> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: >> > According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse >> > for $210 million: >> > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html -- cmg >> >> I think this is A Goo

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse for $210 million: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html -- cmg I think this

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse > > for $210 million: > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html -- cmg > > I think this is A Good Thing

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:05 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse for $210 > > million: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html > > -- cmg > > I think this is A Good Thing