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!Blasphemer! LOL - just kidding
I don't think there are any M$ Windows components in Linux.
Historically, (in general terms) if you had a machine with
an x86 flavored processor (Intel or AMD or other),then you
had several choices of OSs, DOS then Windows, OS2, a few
others ...but not UNIX. There did not exist a UNIX version
that could run on the PC chip. M$ came to dominate the market
with a less than stable Windows OS with it's sundry irritations.
Enter Mr. Linus Torvalds and Linux. Mr. Torvalds put
together a version of the UNIX kernel that would run on a
PC chip....a very stable UNIX OS on PC hardware.
M$ Windows has nothing to do with it.
So, you see, if M$ has nothing to do with it, and it is a stable,
and increasingly popular OS, and, worse yet(from the M$
perspective)it is free, then it represents a threat to M$'s
desire to dominate the server,(and more recently, the desktop market).
How do you make money selling an OS if there is good free one
available?
I just got my ADSL working with RedHat 7 last night. I am proof
that, to some extent, LINUX is a threat to M$, because, in about a week
M$ will no longer exist on my box.
Additionally, Sun puts out an x86 version of Solaris(it's version
of UNIX). It used to be free except for the cost of the media
($10 or something like that). I don't know why it is not more popular.
keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo
I don't think there are any M$ Windows components in Linux.
Historically, (in general terms) if you had a machine with
an x86 flavored processor (Intel or AMD or other),then you
had several choices of OSs, DOS then Windows, OS2, a few
others ...but not UNIX. There did not exist a UNIX version
that could run on the PC chip. M$ came to dominate the market
with a less than stable Windows OS with it's sundry irritations.
Enter Mr. Linus Torvalds and Linux. Mr. Torvalds put
together a version of the UNIX kernel that would run on a
PC chip....a very stable UNIX OS on PC hardware.
M$ Windows has nothing to do with it.
So, you see, if M$ has nothing to do with it, and it is a stable,
and increasingly popular OS, and, worse yet(from the M$
perspective)it is free, then it represents a threat to M$'s
desire to dominate the server,(and more recently, the desktop market).
How do you make money selling an OS if there is good free one
available?
I just got my ADSL working with RedHat 7 last night. I am proof
that, to some extent, LINUX is a threat to M$, because, in about a week
M$ will no longer exist on my box.
Additionally, Sun puts out an x86 version of Solaris(it's version
of UNIX). It used to be free except for the cost of the media
($10 or something like that). I don't know why it is not more popular.
keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo
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