Chris Herrnberger wrote:
This is a very interesting thread. Seens that Billy has already manouvered to address the Unix issue in a temporary manner with OpenNT a unix emulator that works at the kernal level with NT. Now his little company is even handing out free Unix software. Now isnt this a novel concept. I really dont know much about this as I only ran across this site the other night and dont use NT. Im just a personal user of Linux, and love it. If anyone were to review this site and do a detailed comparison of this system vis a vis SuSE Linux this would be interesting. see <A HREF="http://www.softway.com/OpenNT/home.htm"><A HREF="http://www.softway.com/OpenNT/home.htm</A">http://www.softway.com/OpenNT/home.htm</A</A>> In my mind, this is a threat to Linux. SuSE and other distributions, simply by the fact that the typical user is slowley being intriduced to a Unix platform from a very simple and familiar platform. IMHO while the the win 32 thing may not be an issue for advanced users, or Linux enthusiasts, it is an issue of marketshare which simply means exposure. Aagain, in IMHO, this needs to be addressed by the Linux community in order for Linux to continue its meteoric rise to fame.
Hi, I heard that Gates has claimed , as part of his anti-trust defence, that Netscape is an operating system!!!! This reminds me of one of the great possibilities with Linux... making a whole operating system that is specifically tailored to an application, and having free source code to do it. There is a neat little OS called QNX, which is mostly unknown except to developers. It can be tailored to any application for superior application performance. The same could be done with Linux. If you had a really good application, you could take linux and build a booting OS just to serve it. That would give full processor power to the application. I've been used to rebooting so much, that the 2 minute change dosn't bother me. Imagine having a choice to boot into 30 or 40 different custom applications all one one machine. Cad, graphics, and video applications could really benefit from their own OS's, and they will start to dominate as digital TV gets integrated with computers. Imagine sending out a worldwide video broadcast from your house. It won't be long before anyone could start their own TV network, with a fiberoptic link. It might be the way of the future. The free code of linux is ideal for this sort of "chameleon" computer. zentara -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e