Re: [NEWS STORY] Crap on MSNBC

Fred Reimer (Fred.Reimer@bellsouth.net)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:12:20 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Lurndal <slurn@griffin.engr.sgi.com>
> At some point, I believe that the linux community will be required
> to decide the target point for the linux operating system; will it
> be the desktop? or will it be the small departmental server (file/print
> serving), or will it be the large SMP server?

I say all of them.

> In many ways, the goals
> and design philosophies of each target point differ; and attempting to
> cover all targets in a single product may become somewhat unwieldy.

Yes, the design philosophies of each target differ, but that's what is so
great about Linux. We can choose which way to build our kernel depending on
the host system it is running on. I don't see why it would not be possible
to include all the logs and so forth as options (possibly with some mutually
exclusive).

> (which brings us back to the fork, not-to-fork discussions at the last
> Linux World Expo).

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