[lug] UnitedLinux News and M$ Benchmarks

[Ferdinand Schmid]

HI,
This came through the wire today and may be of general interest:

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UnitedLinux Group Plans Tuesday Surprise

SuSE Linux, Conectiva and Turbolinux are all expected to
launch on Tuesday the latest versions of their Linux
enterprise distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core,
sources say.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eSup0DDhnJ0DUm0sML0AX

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Commentary: You Can't Compete With Microsoft

Vendors trying to compete with Microsoft on performance
benchmarking should give up and throw in the towel. There's
no hope for success.
http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=eSup0DDhnJ0DUm0sMP0Ab

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I found the commentary on M$ benchmarking interesting since they seemed to 
care about the validity of benchmarks in general.

Ferdinand

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