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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (35298)	12/11/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 41369

CGarcia: Here is a simple answer from VA Linux site. What is Linux? Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. Linux was first developed for x86-based PCs (386 or higher). These days it also runs on Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC, Motorola 68000 machines (like Atari ST and Amiga), MIPS, PowerPC, ARM and SuperH. Additional ports are in progress, including PA-RISC and IA-64. Is there anything missing about 100 programs at a given time? In fact NT 4.0 had a fundamental problem in its memory management and it was not suited for large scale applications. May be they rectified in Windoz 2000. (In fact any person who has iota of sofwtare reliablity background and experience will not even touch that fat monster for any mission critical business). -Nat -Nat

To: Joe S Pack who wrote (35298)	12/11/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: CGarcia	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

"Sure Linux never crashes...that's just because you can't run 100 programs on it at the same time." Nat, I should've been more clear, I'm sorry... I meant you can't run 100 win32 programs on it at the same time. Isn't it pointless to have an OS that can't run any of your current programs? and just how many people are willing to trash every single program they currently own, and have to buy them all written for another OS? Like I said before, sounds like a specialty OS for pros, servers, and pro-gamers, but unlikely for the average home PC user. IMO. CG