You should probably talk to Linux International about ads for Linux in general, or the various vendors such as RedHat about their flavors of Linux. As for me, I'd love to see a television commercial or even an indepth (unbiased) report on Linux. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Have you tried to get one? Dell requires a minimum purchase of something like 10 machines to have them install Linux on them. As for Compaq, I don't know but I'd wager it's something similar. Since most people don't want 10 computers, this isn't really an option.
The problem is MS's licensing. Dell,Compaq, et al. don't save any money (and thus don't pass any savings to the consumer) by *not* installing MS's products because they license per model. So they would have to have a completely seperate line of computers for Linux, and although that would be sweet, they probably don't think there's enough of a market for that yet.
I would think Compaq would be under greater pressure to support Linux because it can run on both PCs and Alphas, which they own. They could use Linux to leverage their PC market for the Alpha (e.g. people [including IT personel and excutives] get used to Linux on their PC at home, businesses can feel more comfortable getting Linux-installed Alphas at work). Of course, they would be cutting into Digitial UNIX, but eventually their gonna have to drop that anyways (and VMS? yechh). Linux may represent Compaq's best means of keeping Alpha alive.
Sure, NT runs on Alpha too, but it's not 64-bit native, it's not as well supported (app-wise) and I doubt MS is planning on continuing their support of Alpha at all (unless they really get pissed at Intel). -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
And we can only hope that they call witnesses from RedHat, Caldera, et al. Not what I'd call friendly witnesses;-) -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Leia - tried, but backed down at the threat of Alderaan's destruction
Wrong! Darth Vader tried to torture Leia for the location of the secret rebel base, but apparently that didn't work. It was Grand Moff Tarkin (Vader's superior from A New Hope) who threatened the destruction of Alderaan, and nonetheless, Leia lied about the location base, so she never backed down at all. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
*Leia* should not exist, perhaps they meant Queen Padme, Luke and Leia's (eventual) mother (I think). -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Well in the words of the Mad Hatter, he should "say what you mean and mean what you say." He said it was a view of the future, and he was wrong (and BTW, didn't the rebels win at the end? or was I watching a different movie?) -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Nothing like a 90-second conviction. Did you see the link at the bottom of the pages? There are 4 parts. Might I suggest you read them all? -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
SOS !!! With Linux v2.2 Pre 3 and Pre 4
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Have you upgraded everything it said in the Changes file?
Also, are you upgrading to glibc from a libc5 system? That's a tricky endevour as I tried that once and got a lot of core dumps from glibc programs as my reward. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
pre4 not working with cyrix, again?
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Again, I have a Cyrix P150 (first generation) and have compiled and booted on 2.2.0 pre4 fine (I applied the ac1 patch to get ntfs to compile). I have disabled SMP (and also changed HZ to 1024 in param.h). -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
As of this message, the only place I was able to find it was via http directly to www.kernel.org. Go to www.linuxhq.com and hit the http link. The mirrors (ftp.us.kernel.org and ftp.tux.org are the only ones I tried) don't have it yet and the main ftp site is too overcrowded. Http doesn't deny anonymous users;-) -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Mine is an old Cyrix 6x86 P150 (really 120 mHz) and it's running fine under the 586/K5/5x86/6x86 setting. -- Aaron Gaudio "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
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You should probably talk to Linux International about ads for Linux in general, or the various vendors such as RedHat about their flavors of Linux. As for me, I'd love to see a television commercial or even an indepth (unbiased) report on Linux.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Have you tried to get one? Dell requires a minimum purchase of something like 10 machines to have them install Linux on them. As for Compaq, I don't know but I'd wager it's something similar. Since most people don't want 10 computers, this isn't really an option.
The problem is MS's licensing. Dell,Compaq, et al. don't save any money (and thus don't pass any savings to the consumer) by *not* installing MS's products because they license per model. So they would have to have a completely seperate line of computers for Linux, and although that would be sweet, they probably don't think there's enough of a market for that yet.
I would think Compaq would be under greater pressure to support Linux because it can run on both PCs and Alphas, which they own. They could use Linux to leverage their PC market for the Alpha (e.g. people [including IT personel and excutives] get used to Linux on their PC at home, businesses can feel more comfortable getting Linux-installed Alphas at work). Of course, they would be cutting into Digitial UNIX, but eventually their gonna have to drop that anyways (and VMS? yechh). Linux may represent Compaq's best means of keeping Alpha alive.
Sure, NT runs on Alpha too, but it's not 64-bit native, it's not as well supported (app-wise) and I doubt MS is planning on continuing their support of Alpha at all (unless they really get pissed at Intel).
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
And we can only hope that they call witnesses from RedHat, Caldera, et al. Not what I'd call friendly witnesses ;-)
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Wrong! Darth Vader tried to torture Leia for the location of the secret rebel base, but apparently that didn't work. It was Grand Moff Tarkin (Vader's superior from A New Hope) who threatened the destruction of Alderaan, and nonetheless, Leia lied about the location base, so she never backed down at all.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
*Leia* should not exist, perhaps they meant Queen Padme, Luke and Leia's (eventual) mother (I think).
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Well in the words of the Mad Hatter, he should "say what you mean and mean what you say." He said it was a view of the future, and he was wrong (and BTW, didn't the rebels win at the end? or was I watching a different movie?)
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Take a look at http://www.linuxtoday.org/stories/296.html
It's a little old though.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Nothing like a 90-second conviction. Did you see the link at the bottom of the pages? There are 4 parts. Might I suggest you read them all?
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Have you upgraded everything it said in the Changes file?
Also, are you upgrading to glibc from a libc5 system? That's a tricky endevour as I tried that once and got a lot of core dumps from glibc programs as my reward.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Again, I have a Cyrix P150 (first generation) and have compiled and booted on 2.2.0 pre4 fine (I applied the ac1 patch to get ntfs to compile). I have disabled SMP (and also changed HZ to 1024 in param.h).
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
As of this message, the only place I was able to find it was via http directly to www.kernel.org. Go to www.linuxhq.com and hit the http link. The mirrors (ftp.us.kernel.org and ftp.tux.org are the only ones I tried) don't have it yet and the main ftp site is too overcrowded. Http doesn't deny anonymous users ;-)
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
Mine is an old Cyrix 6x86 P150 (really 120 mHz) and it's running fine under the 586/K5/5x86/6x86 setting.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.