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

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Oh...and look here especially

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

Scroll down to the .NET server, its going to get even worse.

-Andy


Jeremy P wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
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>>Here's an article on Sun's new Linux server, "Big Bear"
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>>http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=701379
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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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>--Jeremy
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