Can Linux Really Run on Everything
from Handhelds to Supercomputers?
Linux is extraordinarily scalable and runs on everything from handhelds to supercomputers.
Features in the Linux 2.6 kernel have been particularly aimed at making the kernel easier to port
to embedded Linux systems, as well as large multiprocessor, enterprise-quality servers. Yellow Dog
Linux even offers a port of its Linux distribution that runs on Sony PlayStation 3 gaming consoles.
Will Microsoft Crush Linux?
As noted earlier, Microsoft has shifted its fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) rhetoric against using
Linux to FUD about using any Linux other than Novell??™s SUSE. Any Linux user or developer who
doesn??™t make an agreement with Microsoft to use Microsoft??™s as-yet-unnamed intellectual property
that is in Linux has, in the words of Microsoft President Steve Ballmer, ???an undisclosed balance
sheet liability.???
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Starting with Linux 1
In 1998, a series of memos were leaked from Microsoft that became known as the Halloween
Documents (www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/). The sudden publication of these memos
forced Microsoft to acknowledge their authenticity. The documents fueled animosity and suspicion
about the intentions of Microsoft regarding Linux. In that light, you can see how some regard
the recent Novell and Microsoft Patent news as simply fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD).
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