Oh well, I appreciate the concern but don't understand where it comes from - obviously I come from the PC world where products don't work as expected.. You UNIX people expect things to work [in disbelief] :-)
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One thing I would suggest though, I think one of the commercial Linux people should IMMEDIATELY ship Linux 1.3.xx (.47 seems very stable but I haven't run many newer except .59) integrated with a Web server (Apache). Microsoft is already advertising they are the FIRST company to "integrate" a web server into the Operating system.. Well if we add httpd to rc.local we've done everything Microsoft did and can beat them to their own advertisement. This would give Linux some brand awareness I think, and people may realize that the Linux folks move much faster than the Microsoft folks.. Just a suggestion..
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From: "Clayton O'Neill" <coneill@premier.net>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 1996 3:27 AM
To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Beginners using 1.3
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Robert of the smileys wrote:
> > Would be nice if at boot time 1.3 printed a message warning about
> > its experimental status.
>
> Good idea, just about everyone reads those messages as they scroll past
> to make sure everything is as it should be.
This may be a bit draconian, but it should be trivial to make the kernel
wait for an affirmative input indicating the the person has read the
message that basically says "This is beta code and might (probably) won't
work the way you want. You've been warned". I'd make it possible to
override this behavior with a kernel parameter for those of us willing to
use beta kernels in production.
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