Subj : Re: Solaris
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : William McBrine
Date : Mon Oct 23 2000 05:58 am

-=> Lawrence Garvin wrote to Vid Strpic <=-

 LG> If RedHat is now at 7.0
 
It is, as you can see at their web site.

 LG> Linux hadn't even been ported to the Sparc at [the time Solaris 7 was
 LG> released].

I must quote again from the Red Hat pages:

 Since the release of version 4.0, Red Hat Linux runs on three leading
 computing platforms: Intel compatible PCs, Digital Alpha computers, and
 Sun SPARC equipment.

Thus a complete Linux distro was available for Sparc in '96.

 LG> As for the Unix on Intel market -- SCO had about a 65% market share all
 LG> by themselves at that time. If ya bought a Pentium and ya wanted Unix..
 LG> ya bought OpenServer.. that's pretty much how it was until 1997.
 
_Market_ share, maybe. But Linux and *BSD had a lot of installations that 
nobody had to pay for...

.... I'd like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
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