On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: 23 May 2002 11:09:07 EDT > "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: > > >It's about time, too. Even "Linux Companies" like Penguin, Angstrom > >Micro, and formerly VA, didn't ship Debian. It was all Red Hat. > > That's not entirely true. VA was shipping Debian "towards the end". > Of course, "way back then" when there were "Linux Companies", the > only distro anyone had heard of *was* RedHat. When you're trying to > get into a company and end up talking to a PHB or some other exec who > asks what's on the box, you don't want to answer them with something > requiring a long-winded explanation which will delve into exactly > what a distro is, how it works, blah, blah, blah.
VA supported Debian for all of under 12 mos, ending about 3-4 months before they got out of the hardware business. Of the customers I talked to, most requested RH, with one asking for Debian. Strange thing was, they bought the machines with RH, then installed Debian afterwords. In other news, Sherwin-Williams will be using IBM gear and Linux to drive cash registers at 2500 stores. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=2&cid=581&u=/nm/20020523/tc_nm/tech_ibm_sherwinwilliams_dc_1 -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
