Microsoft To Publish Linux

[Brian Kelsay]

I too was a little confused by his accounting methods.  Did he mean that he
had tried fifteen Linux Distros?  Did he have Dual or triple boot on any of
the machines?  Inquiring minds want to know.
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Webb [mailto:brwebb at transmuto.com]
Sent: None
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: [kclug - Microsoft To Publish Linux]

I generally try to *not* be this guy, but I can't resist this one.

>(current OS stock, 6 MS OS'es; 15 Linux's, 
>1 Free BSD - 1 Machine with NT for
>wifey and work, 2 Linux, 1 FreeBSD) 

So are these installed machines? If so, are there really 2 FreeBSD machines
or is it one?  Is it 15 or 17 Linux boxes? Is it 6 or 7 MS machines?  I'm
guessing you meant that you meant that you have liscences for 6 MS OS's, 15
Linux's (oh wait, that doesn't make sense... are these different
distrobutions?) and one for FreeBSD.  I would have to guess that you meant
that you have installed NT on one machine, Linux on two machines, and
FreeBSD on one machine.

>Interseting side note: this weekend needed to 
>do a powerpoint for work. So I
>e-mailed the skeleton from work 
>(NT); saved it in Linux to a Win98 NTFS

Where is this copy of Win98 installed?  Oh, wait, you can't be right here
because Win98 doesn't support NTFS. 

Sorry, I generally try not to be like that, but I just couldn't let this
slide.  

As an aside, and I hope that Forrest reads this, IBM is (or has?) released a
Notes Client for Linux, under the LGPL no less.  I don't have a link handy,
but It's part of a /. story about IBM's new WDE (that's weblication
development environment).

Cheers

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Benjamin R. Webb
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