[ILUG] different people's shopping habits...

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:51:12AM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
 
> when i go out shopping i'm looking for food, house stuff or geek toys...
>
> when others go shopping they...  well...  get other things...
>
>     http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04DEAL.html
>
> if you're not near a web browser, go find one.  if i say what the story
> is, you won't believe me.
  
Why wouldn't we believe you ? It was on the radio news this morning.
   
> semi-related, how fuzzy and warm is hp to linux?

Quite a bit. They're releasing their own distribution with apparently some
proprietary extra security bits. Didn't I read that IBM are releasing their
own distribution too ? This must worry RH some.

HP have also released a home entertainment system which is Linux based.
  
   
    
Niall

P.S. Interesting snippet in that NY Times article

particularly a new operating system for computer servers that was developed
by Intel and Hewlett-Packard. Compaq is the other large company that has
announced it plans to use that technology, which will compete with
technologies developed by Sun Microsystems and I.B.M.

So Itanium has now become an operating system or are they referring to
something else entirely ? I presume it's the usual clueless journalist
thing.