RE: A challenge to linux

Brian (signal@shreve.net)
Thu, 13 May 1999 21:36:25 -0500 (CDT)


On Fri, 14 May 1999, Greg Smart wrote:

> I was hoping we would ignore it, and it would go away.
>
> A couple of points ->
>
> 1. MS is trying to get our attention. While not particularly
> important, don't you find it just a little amusing?
>
> 2. Is not liking MS the reason you use Linux? Everyone

hell no, we use it in production to support our busines.....

> has different reasons, for me I use a lot of homemade
> hardware (dsp cards), so I like knowing what my system
> is doing. My point is Linux didn't get where it is by following
> the needs of people who don't use it, it got where it is by
> solving problems for people who do use it.

nod. but the challenge is legit. The linux community did speak up at the
flawed testing, and they want to make it right. I would like to see linux
beat nt in a test like that, for advocacy I suppose.

>
> cheers
> Greg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian [SMTP:signal@shreve.net]
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 4:03 AM
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Subject: A challenge to linux
> >
> >
> > Please tell me you all are going to go thru with this and bury them :)
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/nt4vLinux.asp
> >
> >
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