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[ILUG] Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

[ILUG] Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

paul at clubi.ie paul at clubi.ie
Fri Feb 1 17:30:43 GMT 2008


On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Darragh Bailey wrote:

> I'm guessing he means that it runs primarily in console mode, aka
> runlevel 3 on a lot of linux distros.

Aha.

That seems less ambitious and so the more likely. What's the driver 
for that, virtualisation (I can't really think of any other scenario 
where the overhead of a GUI would matter on modern machines)? MS 
apparently were working on some new CLI/scripting language - is that 
part of this?

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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