On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
Frankly, there are very few people--very few--that are competent enough
to technically compare Linux to any other operating system. Hell, there
are few enough people
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
[...]
I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to the
operating system as "Linux", how should I refer to the operating system?
Does "the Red Hat distribution of Linux", or more
Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 07:55:54AM -0500:
To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It
provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not?
So what it still is not an operating system, it is a kernel.
Would Linux/GNU
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
[...]
To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It
provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not?
Certainly, but the Linux kernel is a very minor part of the character of
the operating system: it has
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Tom Diehl wrote:
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
"Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:48:50PM
-0500:
A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
Frankly, there are very few
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some other
things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ?
Absolutely! But the kernel is just one of those things that "make a
computer work".
--
Steve
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All
that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected
fanatics.
I guess you don't vote. How is a large number of
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
Steve Coile wrote:
A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC
by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but
In this day and age of 5 second sound
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
[...]
I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to the
operating system as "Linux", how should I refer to the operating system?
Does "the Red Hat distribution of Linux", or more simply "RedHat Linux",
convey the appropriate meaning?
Yes.
Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All
that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected
fanatics.
...
messages saying you suck and so does your article. In my
Folks, I agree we should send mail to Byte, but lets be polite and
professional in doing so.
We should politely point out 1) Why Linux is better, 2) What Linux does
that NT/Solaris does not,
and 3) How to best use Linux for WWW servers, and 4) How much a Linux
box
costs versus NT or Solaris.
Steve Coile said :
The Mac vs Wintel has never been a technical debate. A technical
review
and the editoral response is. Magazine editors are seldom
intimidated.
Actually, magazine editors are very often intimidated, usually by
threats to pull advertising
from big budget clients. The only
What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some other
things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ?
Absolutely! But the kernel is just one of those things that "make a
computer work".
I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to
Ken Arck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 08:59:21PM -0800:
A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC
by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but
Are you suggesting
"Douglas F. Elznic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 07:42:49PM -0500:
This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All
that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected
fanatics.
I guess you don't vote. How is a large number of well
"Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:48:50PM
-0500:
A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
Frankly, there are very few people--very few--that are competent enough
to technically compare Linux to any other operating system.
Perhaps, if Linux Operating System isn't correct, the Official Red Hat 5.0
Linux distribution package shouldn't say "Linux Operating System" on the
box in numerous places. :)
Al Margheim
At 10:55 AM 3/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some
Steve Coile wrote:
A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC
by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but
In this day and age of 5 second sound bytes and "over with in 2 days"
Linux is now where Unix was when I got into it 18 years ago: the best
solution available for a wide variety of problems, but perceived as
the domain of the lunatic fringe because it isn't associated with
The Big Names.
Maybe we can "out cool" the others. The web is a great place for all
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:51:22PM -0500, Bruce Tong wrote:
Maybe we can "out cool" the others. The web is a great place for all
consumers and corporations. A nice simple "Linux Hosted" or "Developed on
Red Hat Linux" graphic on all our web pages would go a long way. Then link
them all to a
I am opening a store to try to educate, and sell Linux boxes at the same time.
Computers Gadgets, Inc. at 4950 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando,
Florida 32839, and I hope to serve both the local Linux Users Groups with
Freebies, and share knowledge. I will sell machines at the lowest
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
I think that we (Linux users) should make them hear our voice writing
hundreds of complaining e-mails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...
I think that every member of this mailing list should send a little blurb
to the editors at byte in regards to
"Douglas F. Elznic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 10:51:15PM -0500:
e-mails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])... I think that every member of this mailing
list should send a little blurb to the editors at byte in regards to thier
crappy article. It would be a grewat showing of support for our
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Rita Meng wrote:
I think that we (Linux users) should make them hear our voice writing
hundreds of complaining
e-mails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])... I think that every member of this mailing
list should send a little blurb to the editors at byte in regards to thier
crappy
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