[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> I never said that either - sheesh!  What I said was that the GNU 
> software
> you are referring to is *NOT* Linux.  It pre-exists Linux by quite some
> time, in fact, I recall it being the *hottest* thing to install a 
> bunch of
> GNU software on your early Sparcstations.

   Indeed, and even the current ones.  Quite true.

> And I suppose you lump in the NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD community 
> there
> as well?  It's the same stuff after all since we use all that GNU 
> software
> together.

   Not quite.  The BSDs use GCC, and maybe a few other things here & 
there, while pretty much every binary in a Linux machine's filesystem 
is GNU.

> I have seen several instance where businesses change from Unix to Linux
> but mostly that was because of a necessaary hardware upgrade.  $1000 of
> Linux machines can outperform $1000000 worth of old Vax equipt - for 
> short
> term use anyway, and byt the time the PC parts start to break down, 
> they
> have already been depreciated to nothing.

   ...but then your pager beeps at 3AM.  The accounting department is 
happy, but the manager who has to explain the downtime certainly isn't.

       -Dave

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