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LinuxWorld Preview

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the later-this-week dept.

jlttb writes "LinuxWorld gets under way this week in New York City, and CRN has some extensive preview coverage this morning, including a look at Raptor, IBM's first Linux mainframe, and other IBM and Compaq Linux servers to be announced at the show. A second feature takes a look at the growth of the Linux services channel, from industry heavyweights like IBM, Compaq, Red Hat and Caldera, to smaller 'mom and pop' Microsoft and Novell shops that are re-focusing on Linux. Finally, the magazine looks at how Microsoft and Sun are each fighting back against the gains made by Linux in corporate America." I still haven't packed yet, but I'm looking forward to the show.

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  1. Re:The Unix Market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You Linux Zealots make me sick. You sing the same old tune over and over, and it's getting kind of old, quite frankly.

    how it frees you from the threat of virii becuase proper security was designed in from the start and has always been a priority.

    Uhh... maybe since it only has 0.24% of the desktop market share, it would make no sense to write a virus for it. Try reading this for once. If a virus gets r00t access, it can wreak havoc. And NO, in Windows NT due to file permissions it can't propagate like you claim. When will you twits realize this and quit comparing everything to Win95? That was 7 long years ago... things have changed since then. Grow up.

    how nice it is to be free from crash worries: that even when it happens, it never takes down the whole box [unless you like riding the bleeding edge odd-dot-numbered kernels or it was a kernel crash, but you needn't mention those cases].

    Really? Nice that you think so, but I've never had an NT crash that brought down the whole box. Of course I've had X-Window System crash on me many times... I understand that "hitting ctrl-alt-backspace" doesn't necessarily correspond to "bringing down the whole box"... but whatever. Only time you'll EVER encounter a BSOD on NT is if you have serious hardware/driver issues. This is analagous to recompiling the kernel with the wrong drivers/modules... Kernel Oops/Panic away!

    how the Free (libre) software gives you more useful features, because the developers are also users.

    Yeah. I forgot that Microsoft and Sun developers aren't users either. As far as having to dig into a text file or recompile the code myself to get at these "useful features," no thank you. Also, what "useful features" are you talking about? Remember folks, only writers of free software are users too.

    tell them the difference in technical help between people who want to empower you and those who wish to enslave you to their corporate budget.

    Right. Basically the difference between being told to 'RTFM' and live humanoid technical support. That was a quick one.

    tell them the difference in technical help between people who want to empower you and those who wish to enslave you to their corporate budget.

    Yeah, good one there. It's all about money, and not about furthering technology. They're out to get you, those evil bastards. That must explain the transition from NT 3.51 to 4 to 2000 to XP. Also must explain why Novell went from Netware 3 to 4.11 to 5 to 6. All about money, those greedy bastards. Just tell me who will determine that Linux 0.0.1 isn't outdated. I think I'll build my next server on it... why... because I can! [followed by incessant GNU/whining]

    And if they're still listening, explain the difference between proprietary and open protocols

    You know, people listened to Hitler too because they thought he was interesting and had something which sounded like a great idea at the time. But we all know how that turned out.

    If you have time to rant about the evils of 'those money making bastards' in your journal this evening, I'd say that you have too much time on your hands. Reminds me of 'That Root Mean Square Guy'. Just like Hitler, you seem to have an agenda to promote. Just remember that people don't go to college to work for free. That's just idiotic.

    -cscx (posting as an AC with no thanks to Fuck-O The Wonder Moderator, who decided to slaughter my karma... thanks for the communist IP ban, guys!)