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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:28:08 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux on the Unisys ES7000 and CMP2 machines?
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:

> (When the two people he was talking to asked about Linux on the
> machine, he said "We feel Linux can't do enterprise-level stuff like
> this." He got a little defensive when we questioned his judgement.)

Heh. If Linux 2.2 was his only experience with the system I
could actually understand his opinion. Good thing that the
core parts of the kernel have gotten somewhat more robust
with 2.4 ...

Too bad there probably won't be anyone giving away (or loaning
out) such machines for test machines to port Linux to ;))

regards,

Rik
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