Hi,
>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> Jeez, I never said I had trouble with it, only that it is
George> confusing to people in the real unix world that have not been
George> exposed to it. Get it through your head that not everyone
George> that uses Unix has ever seen a Linux machine, has ever looked
George> at a Linux website, or has even seriously considered
George> installing it anywhere. These people tend to have a SPARC2 or
George> better on their desk at home running Solaris or maybe an IPC
George> or IPX running SunOS.
Great. I fail to this as being relevant to our numbering policy.
George> WHen you say Linux they want to know if it is *BSD or
George> SVR4. That is all they know and they know it extremely well.
Does not seem to be people who contribute to the free software
community much.
George> Of about 60 Unix people in our company about 4 have probably
George> seen a Linux machine. Most of our people are applications
George> people ... ClearCase for example does not run on Linux and
George> those people are likely to never see a linux box in their
George> work. They use either Solaris or Windows at home.
So tell me again, why am I supposed to be interested? I think
Red Hat is the perfect distribution for them. They make a fine OS.
manoj
baffled
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