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Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?



Hi,
>>"George" == George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:

 George> Jeez, I never said I had trouble with it, only that it is
 George> confusing to people in the real unix world that have not been
 George> exposed to it. Get it through your head that not everyone
 George> that uses Unix has ever seen a Linux machine, has ever looked
 George> at a Linux website, or has even seriously considered
 George> installing it anywhere. These people tend to have a SPARC2 or
 George> better on their desk at home running Solaris or maybe an IPC
 George> or IPX running SunOS.

	Great. I fail to this as being relevant to our numbering policy.

 George> WHen you say Linux they want to know if it is *BSD or
 George> SVR4. That is all they know and they know it extremely well.

	Does not seem to be people who contribute to the free software
 community much. 

 George> Of about 60 Unix people in our company about 4 have probably
 George> seen a Linux machine. Most of our people are applications
 George> people ... ClearCase for example does not run on Linux and
 George> those people are likely to never see a linux box in their
 George> work. They use either Solaris or Windows at home.

	So tell me again, why am I supposed to be interested?  I think
 Red Hat is the perfect distribution for them. They make a fine OS.

	manoj
 baffled
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