Novell plans major Linux OS update

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Not worried one bit!

If Novell manages to screw up SuSE, then there is always Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, Debian. Besides they can't screw it up! Linux is a kernel that is controlled very tightly by a small group of people. Now they could very well screw up the support utilities and installation manager and all the other tools but, and this is the inherent strength of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc... and that is their modular design. Linux is a kernel that is designed to run hardware, it has a CLI drive HID. SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, they provide a GUI HID with GUI tools to make it easier for the average PC user to manage a system and configure it. But they all have the option to get into the core and allow a user to kill their system with their ineptness or to really tweak the hell out of it!

Don't like something from one distrobution, take it out and replace it with something from another, or just switch all together! And this is what the Microsoft folks are having such a hard time understanding. It's about choice, modularity, scalability, adaptability. This is the power of the new *NIX kernels. Everything else is a wrapper!

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Posted by: MkIIISupra   Posted on: 03/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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