From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:

> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:70929b.5348b6{at}harborwebs.com...
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>
>>MS are the ones who carry on trying to convince people that there
is "a"
>>Windows.
>
>
> No they aren't not if RedHat linux and SE linux aren't trying to convince
> people there is "a" Linux..

nah it's a whole different way of doing things. I can wrap up a minidist of
only a few mb'es & it's still linux as is this:

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,90327,00.htm
l

" Linux Networx is building a new, high-performance 2,132-CPU Linux
cluster supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of an IT
modernization program being undertaken by the agency.

In an announcement today, Salt Lake City-based Linux Networx said the
Evolocity II cluster will be used by the Army Research Laboratory Major
Shared Resource Center (MSRC) as part of the Defense Department's High
Performance Computing Modernization Program.

The supercomputer will be used to increase the research capabilities in the
lab, said Charles Nietubicz, acting deputy director of the computational
and information sciences directorate at the Army Research Laboratory. The
machine, being built at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen,
Md., will be used for weapons research, including calculating projectional
dynamics for weapons systems, battlefield weather simulations and battle
survivability, he said.

It will also be used by the lab to help develop advanced technology that
can be used in the future by the U.S. military. "

It's still linux.....if IBM write some s/w for it & get it included
e.g. the RCU stuff then...it's still linux, if SGI write some s/w & get
it included then it's still linux etc.


> MS are the ones coming up with these lame names
> like Windows 2000 and Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro and Windows Server
> 2003 all of which are different products that sell at different prices. It
> is NO DIFFERENT than the linux line.
>

Ah right so you can run XP from a PDA to a large cluster? Heck I didn't know that.

The core of linux is quite small. You then (as the distributor) get to
decide what else you want to put with it. If you don't want to put
PostGreSQL or Apache or whatever onto the disk then don't. But the fact
that you choose not to put apache or postgreSQL onto a dist doens't make it
any less linux.

Adam
> So what about my question, XP only issue that doesn't affect W2K, was that
> an OS issue? Ok how about this, an XP pro issue that doesn't affect XP home,
> os issue?
>
> Geo.
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