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  1. Re:They're getting out of the US business on Turbolinux Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. UnitedLinux allows them to focus their resources in the strong home markets while still representing the second-most used distribution in the enterprise space.

    RedHat has to invest huge sums of money to get a presence in a foreign market, then build a userbase and hope that some day the new office will break even.

  2. They're getting out of the US business on Turbolinux Not Dead Yet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basically, they are shutting down their US dependance to reduce cost. The US market is overcrowded with Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake and Caldera who all try to sell support and services, too. So Turbolinux is going back to their home market where the competition is not that stiff.

    We've already seen this with SuSE back in August last year when they layed off 30 of their US staff.

  3. Re:Microsoft supposedly helped Apple 'fix' OSX ? on Microsoft vs. Apple's "Thunder" · · Score: 1

    Because IE for the Mac has almost nothing in common with IE for Windows (aside of the name, of course).

  4. Re:Relative costs? on IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the first part of cost savings are not Linux-specific. You just save a bundle :-) by not having to care for 20 different NT/Solaris/etc. servers, but only for one piece of hardware. Using Linux to run the multiple virtual servers saves licensing costs and enables you to hire one of the many Linux admins out there to set them up.

  5. Link to Sourceforge Foundry broken on IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes · · Score: 4, Informative

    The link to the SourceForge Foundry is slightly broken. Correct link is here.

  6. Linux client no more on KaZaA Resumes Downloads, Company Sold? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems that the Linux client is no longer available for download. Posting a link to a mirrored version won't help either, since it stopped working. Error message is "Error logging into Kazaa".

  7. Transactions, foreign keys on MySQL 4.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    I hate to disappoint you but transactions, foreign keys and row-level locking are available and seem to work quite well.

  8. Re:Yes, but... on IBM's Virtual Helpdesk For The Masses · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, in a few years that will be "restart your KDE session and call back if there's still a problem".

  9. That's what I call multifunctional! on Peer-to-Peer Search Engine Wants You To Help Grub · · Score: 1

    So this means I have just installed a search engine in my MBR?

    Well, as long as it boots Linux I don't care what it REALLY is...

  10. Re:Give Mozilla a chance on Netscape 6.0 Released · · Score: 2

    To install https support just point your Mozilla browser to this URL and select "Install Netscape PSM for <OS>" on the bottom of the page.

  11. Re:slashdotted! on Reality On The "Purchased" Linux Reviews · · Score: 1

    Slashdotted inside two minutes!

    Well, maybe there should be some minimum requirements sites that are linked to in a slashdot feature. :-) Ciao...

  12. Re:The only linux... on Linux Games Come Of Age · · Score: 1

    Quake 3 rocks under Linux. Nice work by id and Loki! Ciao...