On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
> Linus & Company,
> First i would like to congratulate everyone on a great job. We (my ISP
> www.axess.net) are now running our biggest server on RedHat 5 and the machine
> has not hiccuped yet. Even my boss who used to be anti-free unix is
> beginning to embrace Linux.
> I am very interested in keeping up with the progress of linux.
> Unfortunately I do not have the time to keep an eye on all of the
> development progress. It would be nice to have a a newsletter every week
> or two that gives a brief description of the progress and direction of the
> kernel development project. I think that myself and other users feel a
> little out of the loop when it comes to the current state of the kernel.
> Not only would a newsletter like this keep users better informed it also
> would drum up support for different projects. If information was
> included about what needed work and what needed testing I think a greater
> number of users would be more apt to get involved and help the project.
> More over a progress report like this might help software vendors get a
> better grasp on where linux is headed. Some of the vendors i have spoken
> to consider linux to be a moving target. Perhaps this newsletter could
> help to demystify where linux is going for software vendors. Thank you
> very much.
> N.B. in no way is this negative criticism, I am extremely happy with
> everything that is going on.
-- Gerhard Mack gmack@imag.net innerfire@starchat.netAs a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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