Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real From: geoff.lane@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Geoff Lane) Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 13:55:00 +0001
ÿ@SUBJECT:Re: Linux beoming a real choice?
Message-ID: <1993May28.135549.15721@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Newsgroup: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.
Paul Nash (paul@frcs.Alt.ZA) wrote:
: I know of at least on large organisation that has been playing with
: Linux on 386/SVGA machines, and is planning to use it _right_ _now_
: instead of X-terminals for those who want X. Obviously, there are
: still users who need Sparcs or whatever for higher performance and
: better graphics.
: It seems stable (as stable as X-vision, at any rate), fast (enough),
: and cheap (free). What more could they want?
:
: Paul Nash network grunt and bit-pusher extraordinaire
: paul@frcs.alt.za PO Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa
Same here, already we've had a queue of people come into the office to see
our Linux systems running. They are looking for cheap, low end workstations
for use mainly as X terminals and/or to run small network applications -
previously they would have just sent a cheque off to Sun. It looks like the
sales in academic sites of low end Sun (and others) workstation products are
going to be hammered by Linux systems running purely as X terminals.
The dedicated X terminal market will almost certainly be static or reducing
- the current UnixWorld mag contains an article saying as much (though their
argument is based on cost v. functionality without reference to Linux.)