[TriLUG] Sun's new "Big Bear" Cobalt LX50

[Andrew C. Oliver]

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>Interesting article.  I see that Sun is releasing their own Linux
>distribution.  Makes me wonder if it's really good that we have so many
>competing, different distributions.  Isn't the myriad number of
>distributions a stumbling block compared to Microsoft, which offers a
>couple of versions but generally the same software for everyone?  If you
>need to install a new program on Windows... there's no mystery how to do
>it.  But for Linux, installing new programs involves different methods
>based on distribution (ie, apt/dpkg, up2date/rpm, etc.) -- and people who
>learn one method must relearn when they switch distros.  I wonder what the
>Linux community can do to solve this?
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Hummm.  
Windows XP .NET Server (coming soon)
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows CE .NET
Windows XP Embedded
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

did I leave one out?

(this is just the current versions --
note that 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter don't have XP equivilents 
announced yet that I can tell...perhaps
.NET Server will replace them, perhaps not)

For more information:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIntro.asp

And there are BTW other licensed distributions of Windows.  If I recall 
TRW and others make a more-processors and
bigger memory version of MS Windows.  

.NET is supposed to help solve this.

-Andy

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