From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) Subject: Re: SLS 1.03 no good ad for linux Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 16:04:47 GMT
In article <CBLL7x.M0p@athena.cs.uga.edu> hal@cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) writes:
>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 :
>
>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!
If these VIP's know what they're doing, they'll *insist* on this test
being run as it was done, namely as a "pop quiz". There is a world of
difference between an OS that has to be nursed to life by a tame guru
and one that any idiot can just drop into a random machine with a
reasonable (certainly >20%) expectation that it will come right up.
But a sample of five is not very much to go on. It would be nice to
know whether this 20% figure is a fair estimate of the likelihood of
Linux coming up smoothly on a randomly selected machine (probably not a
meaningful concept).
-- Vaughan Pratt (FTPables: boole.stanford.edu:/pub/ABSTRACTS.)