The free OS is LINUX

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At 12:33 PM 1/31/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>>> "George" == George R <grimel@icx.net> writes:
>
>    George> For Bro Brown
>
>    George> "Linux may never rule, but it can survive.  It's a matter
>    George> of quality for the discerning few vs popular mediocrity
>    George> for the masses."
> 
>To which I must add, "The biggest problem facing the survival of free
>software is that its advertising budget is extremely limited.  Bill
>Gates spends over half of M$ gross income on advertising telling
>everyone how great M$ is."

Linux is getting some really good review lately as far as the press 
is concerned about it.  Lately with Red Hat 5.0, it's been said that
with the tools that comes with it for installation, it only takes about
45min - 1 hour for someone that's used to doing a WindowsNT type installation.

Linux was used in the creation of the digital special effects of the 
current cinematic event "Titanic".  Digital Domain created a network of
160+ DEC Alpha boxes with about 100 of them being Linux machines to
perform all of the calculations for the rendering of the waves and other
special effects associated with it.

http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue46/2494.html has the complete story with this
in part of it ....

>>>At this point the decision was made to purchase 160 433MHz DEC Alpha 
systems from Carrera Computers of Newport Beach, California. Of those 
160 machines, 105 of the machines are running Linux, the other 55 are 
running NT. The machines are connected with 100Mbps Ethernet to each 
other and to the rest of our facility.<<<

And Microsoft's reaction to a *free* OS being used on the blockbuster
movie Titanic and what it means to the computing industry in general,
etc:    http://www.msnbc.com/news/139296.asp

Bro Tyler
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