Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:26:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ** Fork 1, Draft Final-2 ** |
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Kyle R. Rose wrote:
> > Yes indeed, this is a press release. Kill Samba. I read all the > > kernel patches, and I assure you that Samba was not integrated > > into the 2.2 kernel. > > Har, har... I agree, but this seems to be one of those features that will make or > break Linux for many departments. It also has a nice lead-in from the > NT/UNIX filesystem sentence.
Ahem... I understand that you are busy writing this stuff, but could you read other traffic on l-k? NTFS support is not OK right now.
> > Now you have to explain what an UltraSPARC is and why someone > > should care about UltraSPARC support. This press release is too > > long now. It is time to chainsaw this document, and you might as > > well start here. > > Only people who have an UltraSPARC are going to care. For them, it's good that > it's there. Others will ignore it. Not everyone is going to care about > multimedia support, either, but we have that in there...
[snip] > "Linux" is the common name for a class of secure network operating systems > based on the Linux kernel and other open source software including the Free > Software Foundation's GNU Project, the Apache web server, Samba, the X > Window System, and BSD UNIX. Linux takes full advantage of modern, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *From* BSD, please. UNIX(tm) issues aside, none of the major distributions includes complete BSD userland. For example, I never met a single distribution that would use BSD cp instead of --long-options-and-featuritis-ridden-POSIXly-correct-albeit-bloated GNU one. Ditto for the rest of fileutils, etc.
> high-end x86, Power Mac, Alpha, and UltraSPARC hardware. It can also
Hmm... What about s/UltraSPARC/Sun Microsystem's UltraSPARC/ and same for other platforms? BTW, I doubt that Joe Average Marketdroid knows what the heck x86 is. OTOH JAM and Joe Average EndLuser have heard about Intel, Apple, DEC (awww... Digital; just don't use Compaq here - they have nothing with Alpha) and Sun.
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