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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (568)	11/15/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Most end users don't care about open source. What they do care about is stuff that works. But you are right. Tweaking Solaris and getting software that runs on it is not the free ride that Linux currently is. Wait until they look for support. Linux is pricey to support. Most mainstream Unixes are downright outrageous. BSD Internet which is a good commercial and inexpensive package (1600 US with all internet servers up) wants 1500 an engineering day to do on site trouble shooting and installation. What is different about 3.6 Slack? I note a few cockaroaches in 3.5 and could use some relief. (every time I hit roaches.. they are everywhere. Is there a boric acid program?) I wonder if Netscrap works any better. If there was a lot of different software I suppose I could differentially replace versions one by one. The trouble is how do you find that out in a quick hurry? Version checking is something that is not automated as far as I know. Trouble is new versions in Linux are not necessarily better or more stable. Debian is stuck happily at RedHat 4.2 and a few others including Yggdrasil are very old stuff. I think Yggdrasil is Kernel 1.something. EC<:-}

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (568)	11/15/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 2617

E. I used solaris X86 a couple of years ago. I was using it at work but used borg at home as solaris was okay at making my pc into a good xterminal, but no much else. I started using linux at home and after a couple of months found it ease of use and better performance good enough to switch at work. I've never looked back. Solaris ain't linux. Linux is unix. But thank you sun for my world cup 94 coffee mug(which I still use.) and for the two free tickets to world cup games. Sun is a great company that sponsors the great sport of soccer and make a good quality hardware and a second rate OS. Hey linux can fix all those sun boxes.