Lindows at the Showdown, Feb 14, 2003

Lindows is a rather polarizing distribution in many ways. For the most part, people either love it or hate it, both for the company's attitude and the distribution itself. We'll consider that in a bit, but first comes the question of how it stacks up to other distributions technically.

Though the growth in the number of servers running Linux is best described as ballistic, revenue from hardware and software sales isn't enough to keep any pure-play Linux provider afloat.

"A migration to?HP-UX 11 would have been painless but expensive," said DIT Project Manager Frank Hollenbach, who also evaluated machines from Sun Microsystems. The Linux system costs about 60 percent or 70 percent less than the alternatives, he added.

Webmaster's note: Not Linux news per se, but shows what kind of tactics Microsoft uses against its competitors and how some like Opera don't take it lying down

Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!

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