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To: Golden Eagle
Hey if I was wrong that all Chinese supercomputers run Red Flag Linux, I apologize for the mistake

Wow, I'm impressed. Now we can start working on the three instances of libel.

It was an easy honest mistake to make

Not if you bother to look it up before posting, or just have the general knowledge that Red Flag isn't designed for supercomputing. But you are right, they do mostly run Linux, although their fastest one is running AIX and they have HP/UX too (but that's okay because they paid for it, right?).

It's just a constant stream, of ridiculous BS, like his coninual claim that Microsoft is no longer releasing security patches for Windows 2000, or that their server share is below 50%.

The first may also have been confusion, as Microsoft ended mainstream support for 2K last year. That sounds like support ended, but security patches will continue for a while, and that's it (unless you paid for an extended hotfix agreement last year). I think Microsoft has a pretty good lifecycle support policy.

As far as the statistics, they mean nothing unless everything is narrowly defined and everybody agrees on the definitions. And even then the sources will differ.

For example, for definitions, I think virtual machines should count, since the point is how many instances of the OS are out there doing work. That won't just help Linux, since where I work we have multiple instances of W2K3 running on each of several boxes.

OTOH, my hosting service is using virtualized Linux, quite a lot on each server.

62 posted on 04/02/2006 3:28:06 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

He wasn't confused, he was even providing links from Microsoft himself that blew his own case further out of the water, but continued his lie for days onto other threads. Yet he never retracted, and apparently never will. He actually started trying to preach to me about sin, as laughable as that is, in another pathetic attempt to cover his own sin up.


65 posted on 04/02/2006 3:53:11 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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