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Re: USENIX Association Upcoming Events (fwd)



>>>>>>>> On 27 Jan 1998, Alexander L. wrote:

 L.> "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a. Frodo" <frodo@sharat.co.il> writes:
 L.>
 L.> > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
 L.> >
 L.> > Well, I was also offered Compaq x86 with Solaris. I really
 L.> > don't think they are so silly as to enter catholic marriage
 L.> > with any OS and refuse all others. They'll take anything that
 L.> > sells. If Linux will sell good -
 L.>
 L.> As a matter of fact, Linux does not. It's a free product -
 L.> everybody can just download and install it. What will happen
 L.> is that they'll sell machines with NT pre-installed. So, for
 L.> most users it'll be extremely difficult to justify erasing the
 L.> ready-to-use "solution" and installing Linux instead.

Hmm... I never heard of any "support" from Intel, but i386/Linux
lives happily ever after with out it.

thks,
borik
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