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To: g_m10 who wrote (983)	2/10/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Well fellow linuxer's, I been play-N around some more. This is my idea of a visible PC with 4 displays. Damn those flat panel display that came with my Number Nine Digital Flat Panel Pak are supper sweet fine. OH YEAH! home.earthlink.net 188324 Feb 10 18:43 4dis45l.jpg view 45 left 213607 Feb 10 18:44 4dis45r.jpg view 45 right 196438 Feb 10 18:45 4displa1.jpg head on 186765 Feb 10 18:47 4display.jpg head on 158523 Feb 10 18:56 dis1of4.jpg display angle:0.0 146368 Feb 10 18:59 dis2of4x.jpg display angle:0.1 128920 Feb 10 18:59 dis3of4x.jpg display angle:0.2 180935 Feb 10 19:00 dis4of4x.jpg display angle:0.3 221218 Feb 10 19:02 mboardx.jpg the visible motherboard costs 10 dealdeal intel venus mother board. 104 180 ppro with fan. overclocked to 200. 65 64 meg of edo. 40 420 meg harddisk. 12 umc eithernet card 12 logiteck mouse 45 omnikey keyboard 9 dealdeal no faceplate floppy 100 supercom 14" monitor 400 Tatung cm-17 monitor 5000 2 number nine digital flat panel paks 90 2 matrox millenium 8 meg video from dealdeal. 40 redhat linux 4.2 199 AcceleratedX Xserver. 6126 Let the SGI visual compete with my visible. Oh I forgot the power supply... Anyway I just bought 4 ATX computer cases at the trumbull computer fair this weekend for 31 bucks each. They include a power supply. Tom Watson tosiwme

To: g_m10 who wrote (983)	2/11/1999 2:46:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2615

A Linux Support System Leander Kahney 3:00 a.m. 10.Feb.99.PST A San Francisco Bay Area start-up will begin offering around-the-clock technical support for Linux next month, a sign that the free operating system is making headway in the enterprise market. Beginning 1 March -- the first day of the LinuxWorld conference in San Jose, California -- LinuxCare will begin offering 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week support for businesses running the operating system. The company will also launch an extensive, searchable online knowledge database. "We're gearing up to support the Fortune 1000, large ISVs, boxmakers, and the like," said LinuxCare co-founder and chief technology officer Dave Sifry. "Linux is already in the Fortune 1000 -- it's a done deal. CFOs may not know it's running on their backbone, but it is." The greatest barrier Linux has faced among IT executives is the lack of commercial support, Sifry said. "They look at the Linux community and see a ragtag bunch -- a decentralized, cooperative anarchy -- and say, 'How do we get support from that?' There's no 1-800 number for Linux, and that's what LinuxCare is providing." Linux users have traditionally relied on an informal system of getting help from other users via newsgroups, mailing lists, FAQs, and email. Sifry said there had been no resistance to the company's plans from the famously anticommercial Linux community. "In general people have been extremely positive," Sifry said. "People say this is the thing they've been looking for. It allows them to go to their bosses and say, 'We can finally bring Linux out of the closet.'" "For large companies, it's going to be very important to get support," said Jason Haas, director of marketing for LinuxPPC, which distributes a version of the operating system for PowerPCs. "In the long term, successful Linux vendors selling to enterprise are going to need more robust options than just an email address and an interminable wait for a response." wired.com Linux ... you've come a long way baby.

To: g_m10 who wrote (983)	2/11/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: g_m10	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2615

After reading chat transcripts, I learned that I have something in common with Linus - we both prefer Alta Vista to other search engines. Well, for news search I use Deja News, but for the rest Alta Vista is my favorite. One more quote about Linus. "O'Reilly said he would like to hire another open source code leader, Linus Torvalds, but Torvalds "has been explicit and clear" that he does not want a job focused solely on continuing the development of Linux. If he changes his mind, O'Reilly said, "I'll offer him a job in an instant." www4.zdnet.com:80/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2204725,00.html