What Lies Beneath, Jan 17, 2003

Windows XP is not an operating system. It is a windowing system that sits atop an operating system much as KDE or Gnome sit atop Linux.

he current situation is an absolute and utter nightmare. When we started three and a half years ago you could make an RPM and pretty much without exception any RPM based system could use it. Now not only are RPMs not compatible between distributions, they aren't even compatible between versions of distributions. Here's a list of the packages we have to make for a single program for it to work properly across linux distributions without making 100MB static builds:

FreeBSD and Linux systems can be of enormous benefits to school business models. While these operating systems have long been adopted as the backbone of the IT industry, running web-servers and the like, they are also in areas of mission critical importance replacing Microsoft and Novell File Server(s). The Linux operating system and other OS under the umbrella of OpenSource or Free Software movement can be obtained for free from the local Linux Users Group - nothing comes cheaper than that. Yet the price may not be the only advantage that schools will obtain from such a switch over. Recent developments in application suites entail that a wide array of established and presumed applications and operations are handled by such OSs. Moreover, the unique networked environment in schools makes Linux a better choice.

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