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[Fraser Campbell]

On November 29, 2003 03:31 pm, William Park wrote:

> It's quite amusing to see all these cheap shots directed at Microsoft,
> while leaving the hardware players (ie. Intel, IBM) alone.  Whether it's
> OS/2, Windows, DOS, or Linux, they're all running on Intel CPU.  If

Not true.  My desktop Linux's have been mostly AMD in the past 3-5 years (K6-2 
or Athlon), recently my work desktop was upgraded to P4 but when I get tired 
of my Athlon at home the most compelling upgrade at this point is the AMD 
Opteron (I doubt I'll upgrade for at least 2 yearst though, things may have 
changed by then).

At various places of businesses I've run Linux on Sparc (Sun), MIPS (Cobalt), 
AMD (Cobalt and whitebox) and 486/Pentium (Dell/IBM or whitebox).  I'm quite 
sure that I've used as many non-Intel CPUs as I have Intel CPUs.

In the last year I've also used Snapgear VPN appliances which run Linux on 
Coldfire or SuperH processors; I'm pretty sure these processors are from 
Motorola and Hitachi (neither owned by Intel AFAIK).

> So far, Korean (federal) and German (municipal) government decided to
> try Linux.  This means Intel CPU, also.  Where are the commies when you
> really need them?

Not sure what planet you've landed from; this comment and several others 
reveal that you haven't been on ours for quite some time, perhaps you're 
running Linux 1.0 and haven't heard about any of the new releases?

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux

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