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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (11194)	9/30/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

> Someone needs to package that support & make Linux into a full- > fledged product. If it gets the right kind of push, NOW, it > will beat NT5 to market & grab a foothold. Someone needs to repeal the Microsoft Tax and allow ANY PC Unix (except Xenix<g>) to be an OS option from Dell and Micron, etc. What better 'value' could the major PC vendors avail to consumers than a 1-2gb partition with a Linux distro complete with the reference Netscape, Apache web server, shell, Perl, built-in networking, a zillion 'X' applications, source code and compilers. What's the cost to the vendor there? NOT installing WinModems and requiring an additional driver from device manufacturers? What's up with that?! (paraphrasing Orrin Hatch) But at it's core, Linux is 'hobbyist', communal, stone soup (a good thing). It isn't the 'full fledged' (commercial) OS that Solaris is. Linux is a popular movement. Commercially, Solaris will be the Unix 'product' that benefits most from the Linux phenomenon. JCJ