From: hal@cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) Subject: Re: SLS 1.03 no good ad for linux Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 13:52:44 GMT
In article <1993Aug11.075557.17176@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> mka@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Michael Kauschke) writes:
>I just tried to convince some important people who are not very
>happy with MircoCough to have a test on Linux. But what happened :
>
[ description of problems deleted ]
You've just learned a very important lesson. Always practice, and rehearse,
and know what you are doing, before giving a demonstration to very important
people!
In a commercial setting, you should even be wary of giving a casual
demonstration to people in different departments or workgroups, because
if your work in progress coredumps in front of them, that's going to be
the impression that they are left with ... and such impressions and rumors
can kill a project.
Unfortunately, office politics are a fact of life, even in academic
settings. If you end up having to program under DOS instead of
Linux, then you have only yourself to blame for not making a proper
presentation. Take some time, get your act together, and make
another attempt. Hopefully you can get these VIP's attention a
second time.
>
>All machines work fine under the OS-simulators of MS.
>
They'd make fine doorstops if they did any less.
>So the a1.3 had a complete hit rate of 20%.
>
>1.) Is it smart to hand out booting kernel which is pumped up with
> some funny highly specialized device drivers as there is almost noone
> trying to install Linux via ftp? To my opinion a boot
> kernel should not have anything which is not absolute necessary for
> booting from fd.
Via ftp? No comment.
>2.) I'm not very sure whether it is sensible to support FPU-less boxes.
> But if it is, one has to give out a quite stable emulation as it
> is a central point.
Maybe it's a central point at the Institute for Robotics and Process Control,
but I have very little need for floating point operations and don't plan
on installing an FP coprocessor anytime soon. The only central point
for me is FP emulation, and I've got no complaints.
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