From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 21:31:22 GMT
In article <93080.211349K11111I@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <K11111I@ALIJKU11.BITNET> writes:
rahayden@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (R Andrew Hayden) writes:
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Why should somebody switch over. Changing OS costs companies a lot of money
(installation, training, software adaptation,....).
Why should we care if they do or not? That's a question I still have
yet to see anyone answer, especially those that are so eager to tell
everyone how Linux should be run.
But if you can produce a look-alike, which does first the basic
(and most used) services, you can avoid trainig costs (for the
Windows users). And the companies will switch (if support is better
and admin/progr. easier).
Do we want to make a DOS+Windows clone? I certainly don't think so.
If the companies want that, they can let Novell or someone develop it.
I want to run a real operating system.
>E) Encourage commercial software developers to write Linux
> software. Obviously it is best to wait for 1.0 so that they
> would all have a commom programming platform, but copies of
> Linux could be supplied to various companies that would be
> interested in developing. Numbers garnered from the
> "registered users list" could be used as a basis for the size
> of the Linux population.
There would be never *Linux 1.0*, just the kernel 1.00. And this is
in the responsibility of Linus. But Linus is just one part of the
complete Linux. There are so many other parts. And they all have to
work together.
Very true, but when Linus release version 1.0 of the kernel, that is
Linux 1.0. That won't be some magic release, though. I don't know
how anyone got the impression that Linux will suddenly be magical and
organized and the perfect replacement for DOS+Windows as of Linux 1.0.
There should be a *coach* which assembles a -=collection=-. And
this collection could be promoted and supported for commercial use.
And there could be many coaches and many Linux Collections.
There are a bunch of releases with people handling them, or do the
names SLS, TAMU, LGX and Linux/Pro mean nothing to you?