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[James P. Kinney III]

But, but.. I thought that BSD and Slowaris and HPsUX and TRUEeunichs
were all just feeble "also ran" Linux knock-offs  ;)

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:19, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Converting from Unix to Linux is one thing.  Non-Windows bashing each
> other shouldn't happen.  I spent 11 years Admin'ing sun and now at my
> second job that actually used Linux in production.  Both work as long as
> they're used for the right things, etc etc.  It's when BSD/Linux/Sun etc
> start hacking on each other as sub-par, misfits, etc that we start to
> look bad and big, pretty Micro$oft starts to look good.
> 
> 
> 
> Thus spake Chris Ricker (kaboom at gatech.edu):
> 
> > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > > As I've said the last 5 years, None of the Unix's should be fighting
> > > (not even against AIX) (well, maybe sco as a backup target) until Bill
> > > Gates is begging for pocket change and the RedMond campus is a ghost
> > > town.
> > 
> > Most of the commercial Linux distros are targetting companies to migrate
> > from Unix -> Linux currently. I don't think it's a bad strategy either --
> > it makes a lot of sense financially for the companies in many cases, and
> > it's much easier for companies to convert from Unix to Linux than from
> > Windows to Linux....
> > 
> > There are certainly things commercial Unix is good for, but there are also
> > lots of things I do with my Solaris on Ultrasparc boxes which I can do much
> > more cheaply with Linux on Intel
> > 
> > later,
> > chris
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> :wq!
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