Re: PC World publishes articles bearish on Linux

[Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious who the new users of OS/2 WarpB are ;-)

and how much beer the PC World people needed to have to give them a rise
in market share for the year 2000.
(click on the OS Market Share chart to see this funny stuff)

Kevin


On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Adam Williams wrote:

> On Jul 6, 10:20pm, root wrote:
> 
> > Start with this one, you'll see links to others...
> >
> > http://www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,3987+5+0,00.html
> 
> Just a gripe but I've become rather annoyed by articles in PC mags written by
> people who have probably never used a UNIX box of any derivation.  Windows NT
> isn't cryptic?  Anyone been in "regedit" lately.  I still see articles claiming
> that Linux doesn't support SMP or some other feature showing an obvious lack of
> research on the part of the reviewer.  Just the other week I read a review of
> Caldera where the author compared it's performance to a Red Hat system he had
> used,  said they were about the same.  Of course,  Caldera is based on Redhat
> just with value added features!
> Sorry,  just lost my temper for a moment.
> 
>