[plug] Linux & Hardware

Quintin Lette quintin at arach.net.au
Tue May 6 15:26:08 WST 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003 03:20 pm, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, quoth Derek Fountain:
> > Indeed. I thought he'd disappeared off the face of the planet after being
> > proven so spectacularly wrong in OS design theory by Linus.
>
> You mean the "Linux is obsolete" thread?
>
> Very entertaining stuff :)
>
> For those that haven't seen it, google it. It's worth the read. :)
>
> "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M
>  SPARCstation-5." -- Andy Tanenbaum, Jan '92

<deliberately missing the point>
_everyone_ is running linux on their SS5s, aren't they? (I can't seem to get 
win2k to run on mine but Debian has no problems with it) 

>
>  - Matt



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