On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> At 09:12 AM 03/21/2000 -0800, Tom Berkley wrote:
> >Sean
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> Tom. see my response on this. I am sorry, your attitude is a major reason
> linux has never had a major amount of commercial market share (and as long
> as the linux vendors have this same attitude, commercial users will stay
> away in droves). I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but if my Foobar
> CDROM worked in rev 6.1, there is no excuse for it suddenly not working in
> Rev 7.0 (unless it is something that was explicitly deprecated). This kind
> of nonsense happens all the time in the linux world (and is the major
> reason the ISP I work with switched from linux to freebsd 2 years ago).
>
I "feel your pain," and you have a point. However, linux is now in
second place behind NT in new server installs, so it is gaining market
share. (Look through past linuxtoday web pages, www.linuxtoday.com)
However, I don't think that gain is all mandrake installs for various
stability reasons. :) I like mandrake because it is fun to play with.
FreeBSD is well known to be ultra-stable. If that is what you need,
then by all means use it. On the other hand, if you want to play, use
mandrake. ;)
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