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Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)Posted Aug 2, 2003 0:22 UTC (Sat) by cdeanmontana (guest, #13584)Parent article: Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Guys Microsoft is the Gorilla. We are the chimps as far as they are concerned. One of the things that need to happen is Linux folks need to band together. I've been in the biz for twenty years. 2 seems to be the tolerable number in this field. Others die. The question really is, is it going to be SCO & Microsoft, Red Hat & Microsoft, BSD & Microsoft, Mandrake & Microsoft, Lindows & Microsoft, Apple & Microsoft or Linux & Microsoft? This publicity for Microsoft is a future play into Apple/SCO. The processor in Mac's is superior to Intel's and no one really argued this, take a closer look at it's numerical superiority. Now if Microsoft needs a quick fix to bring apple under it's hood, with SCO as a carbuerator, the engine is surely going to be superior to GPL at the start. GPL can catch up but it's being setup to loose some races. Now if that isn't enough Microsoft has stolen a little nitro. Better read last months headlines Linux Guru's. How many anti-virus programs are there for Linux. Who's the player? Research this. Now there is only one thing to keep the GPL engine running, that's unity, not a time for greed. Linux better get on the stick with Voice Technology, and better Tablet marketing.
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Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Aug 3, 2003 1:45 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (subscriber, #7544) [Link] We do need unity, but what should we unite around?What is it that makes our OS special. Is it that it is based on the Linux kernel? We are getting a lot of attention at the moment. Many proprietary software vendors are porting their software to our OS but they're not releasing it as Free Software. It's no good having a Free OS and running a bunch of proprietary applications on it. "Linux" is a misnomer. Linux is a kernel, not an OS. If you think the OS is "Linux" then you should know that you can setup a "Linux" box without using Linux at all. The GNU OS can run on the FreeBSD kernel. If I replace Linux kernel with the FreeBSD kernel, what is my OS called? Linux? GNU is the OS. It comes in three kernel varietys: GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, and GNU/FreeBSD. (the Hurd still lacks a few features, GNU/FreeBSD works but it's pretty new so few use it so far) We need Free Software. To make it easy for people to hear about Free Software, we should tell them about the GNU project. Ciaran O'Riordan
Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) Posted Aug 3, 2003 2:12 UTC (Sun) by wweber (guest, #11678) [Link] It concerned me less whether I could rebuild StarOffice and more that it would read and write my M$-generated files on my GNU system. I'm sure if I stuck a SCO or Sun box on my LAN it wouldn't pick a fight with my other machines, whatever the shortcomings seen in those products. When MicroSoft decides to play nice among other OS's instead of being the Fat Cat, THEN I might be interested in more of their software.
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