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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Unseen on 29 May 2003, 10:31

Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Unseen on 29 May 2003, 10:31
Thanks for the previous post Calum, its now official Linux will be used by the Munich Govt.  They only now have to figure which distro. will be used.  This is a huge step and I believe many will follow.
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Faust on 29 May 2003, 13:02
I think they were leaning towards suse weren't they?
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Calum on 29 May 2003, 13:24
well gee whillikers, isn't this the fourth new thread about this subject? it's no big deal!

(well it is, but four threads?)

and were they leaning towards SuSE? i do hear that a lot when people talk about Germans "oh yes they were thinking about SuSE", well so they should, SuSE was the first Linux company to really capture the European market, and they are a German company, but i also think that maybe this is stereotyping Germans a bit. I mean Mandrake are European also, and a lot of corporate backing has gone into Red Hat (and to a lesser extent Turbolinux), from the West coast of the USA, why wouldn't they be considered seriously too?
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Faust on 29 May 2003, 13:44
I just heard that they were thinking of Suse because they had Suse developers "in country."  maybe I'm getting slashdot rumours and real news confused in my brain again...
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: lazygamer on 29 May 2003, 15:27
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
well gee whillikers, isn't this the fourth new thread about this subject? it's no big deal!

(well it is, but four threads?)

and were they leaning towards SuSE? i do hear that a lot when people talk about Germans "oh yes they were thinking about SuSE", well so they should, SuSE was the first Linux company to really capture the European market, and they are a German company, but i also think that maybe this is stereotyping Germans a bit. I mean Mandrake are European also, and a lot of corporate backing has gone into Red Hat (and to a lesser extent Turbolinux), from the West coast of the USA, why wouldn't they be considered seriously too?


Nationalism is a terrible reason to choose a distro.  (http://smile.gif)
(but are they all so similiar that it makes no difference what is chosen?)

Just out of curiosity, is there a "Canadian" Linux distro?
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Calum on 29 May 2003, 20:24
if there is, MoR will know about it...  (http://smile.gif)
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Laukev7 on 29 May 2003, 22:35
They are not Linux distros, but we have QNX and OpenBSD.
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: xyle_one on 29 May 2003, 23:04
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
well gee whillikers, isn't this the fourth new thread about this subject? it's no big deal!

(well it is, but four threads?)

must....merge...threads.......can't. ah. damn it.[/troll]

SuSE was the first distro i used. i liked it. too bad you can't download ISO's though.
Title: Monkey boy failed
Post by: Faust on 29 May 2003, 23:28
quote:
(well it is, but four threads?)

[badjoke]Well this site is hosted on a BSD server isn't it?  And we all know how much effort has been put into multithreaing for *nix systems!  :D   :D   :D  [/badjoke]
sorry  :(