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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2165)	2/17/2000 2:58:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2615

Linux: Itanium's great 64-bit hope? Updated 2:10 AM ET February 17, 2000 By Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller, and John G. Spooner, ZDNet News zdnet.com Through a strange set of converging circumstances, Linux could end up as the pre-eminent operating system for Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip , due in the second half of this year. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is holding to the party line that it will have a 64-bit Windows release ready to ship once Intel officially releases Itanium. But according to an internal Microsoft memo, dated Jan. 1 2000, viewed by Sm@rt Reseller, the software company expects to release Beta 2 of Whistler -- its next version of Windows following Windows 2000 -- as its first Itanium offering. The final shipping version of Whistler isn't slated to arrive until March 2001, according to the memo. "Windows needs to be available at Itanium launch. Our goal is to use Beta 2 as the product that fulfills this requirement," said the author of the Microsoft memo, distributed internally to its Windows development team. The memo, along with this week's spat between Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) over Solaris for Itanium, leaves Linux looking like it may become the most viable operating system for Itanium when the chip ships in the third quarter of this year. ... Linux to the rescue? Sun and Microsoft aren't the only major OSes working feverishly to deliver 64-bit offerings simultaneously with Intel's Itanium. But of all these offerings, only 64-bit Linux is at the beta testing stage at this point. The others are in alpha or pre-alpha. In early February, the Trillian Project -- a group consisting of Caldera, CERN, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SGI, SuSE, TurboLinux and VA Linux -- released its first beta of a version of Linux optimized for Itanium. This week at the Intel Developers Forum, IBM announced that the Project Monterey team (IBM, the Santa Cruz Operation and Intel) will have an alpha version of Monterey ready to deliver to developers on Feb. 29. Major operating systems typically go through at least a year of rigorous beta testing before they are released commercially. Given this timetable, it's looking increasingly doubtful that the big OS vendors, like Microsoft, IBM and Sun, will have enough time to test, finalize and roll out their OSes so they can ship simultaneously with Itanium. Microsoft declined to comment on the particulars of its 64-bit OS delivery plans or on the contents of the Jan. 1 memo. Secret: Linux WILL end up as the pre-eminent operating system for Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2165)	2/17/2000 11:47:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Well Rusty I went to the Linux Essentials and was once again disappointed the the reign of Linux ignorance, IMHO. So I'm sending this email as my response. But first to spell check it here. -------------------------------------- Well I don't know what if any hands on Mr Lindquist has with Linux or the recommended list. Netscape is the only one on my List. Of course I don't just dilly dabble in Linux, I use and have used it for over 7 years. So WordPerfect 8.0 , well I've used Word Perfect and it's Ok by I like a complete office suite and I've found that the first office suite for Linux 6 year old applixware has and does do what I need. The extensive review in Linux Journal points out the pluses and minus vs Star Office. Now the choice of the Gimp is to me a joke. And to figure it out I suggest that one by the 50 pound O'reilly book on it. It's the klunkiest app I ever tried. I believe that Mr Christopher Lindquist it totally ignorant of XV that's over hmmm.... 10 years old. Also more recently compupic thought not as efficient as XV has some nice additional features. So to me Mr Christopher Lindquist recommendations are a JOKE. If you want to see the result of a real 100% Linux user for seven years. Yes I used to buy redhat distribution across Mr Robert Youngs kitchen table. So if you are not afraid and or bandwidth challenged take a look at. watman.com The ultimate Linux productive Window Manager. watman.com This information mega tool help get me information a little faster and in trading stock it's big bucks. watman.com Yes I'm a geek with bad taste. But I think it's EYE catching The second area of development is in the volume processing of digital images and the automation of archiving the imagery in html or web pages. Examples of this image processing: The Sea Witch Gam image archive contains 617 photos documented with 32 web pages and the total processing from camera to web took less than 6 hours. watman.com At the bottom of my watman.com you will find pointer to my other thousand of photos processed into the web with XV, Applixware, crisp and local test viewing with Netscape 3.0 4.07 4.61. Mr. Christopher Lindquist ignorance of what really makes Linux click has condemned many to the truly mediocre. ------------------------------------- tom Watson tosiwmee