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Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts"
Robert writes "Microsoft Corp's "Get the Facts" campaign comparing Windows with Linux
continues to prove controversial, with Novell Inc describing the latest set of facts
offered up by Microsoft as "misdirection." The latest report offered up by
Microsoft as evidence that Windows is a better bet than Linux is a white paper from
Security Innovation Inc that compares maintenance, patch application, and system failures
related to a migration from Windows Server 2000 to 2003, and Novell's SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 8 to SLES 9. The report found that there were more system failures
experienced by Linux systems administrators, and that more patches needed to be applied to
the
Linux systems, while more time was required to complete the Linux migration."
Hello? Slashdot moderators? Anybody home? I'd like to introduce myself as an average /. user. Just so there's no confusion, I come to the site every day in search of interesting news in the world of IT and related topics. While not a young gun in the world of IT, I have not yet reached the age where I can't remember stories that have already been posted back in the mists of ... well, yesterday. I've go to assume that the number of readers like myself coming to this channel merit actually having somebody at the helm... can somebody please look into this?
All your base are belong to $MS
Forgiveness please for bringing up the tangential elephant in the room, but what's the word on MS's new game system being easily modded for Linux, and what would the market value be of an equivilant machine picked up on pricewatch? Speaking of markets, are they selling this sucker at a loss too?
I'm sure the essteemed Mr. Gates prefers souls. They're crunchier.
I know, deep inside me, there's a Linux nut just waiting to be let out.
I modded you down for one single reason:
distribution, Debian [debian.org] was far too heavy to pick up
use Ubuntu on one of my laptop, and had gently learnt the apt- way, and liked it
STOP THE PRESS!! NVIDIA Linux drivers are leaked!!!.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&ite
"Debian was far too heavy to pick up"
What exactly does that mean? And how is Ubuntu _that_ different than Debian?
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
Silly. It would seem now that Novell are taking the claims seriously - a bad move on the part of their PR/Marketing department. They would have got far more mileage with a billboard scale "Whatever Bill" campaign, if at all.