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hardave writes "Here's an interesting article from Performance Computing about future I/O protocols and standards." This piece talks about the most recent gathering of the minds about I/O. In the end, it means what we've expected all along; faster throughput, and the benefit of creating open standards.

hardave writes "Here's an interesting article from Performance Computing about future I/O protocols and standards." This piece talks about the most recent gathering of the minds about I/O. In the end, it means what we've expected all along; faster throughput, and the benefit of creating open standards.

jyang writes " Performance Computing has this December article: 'The world might seem to run on UNIX, but it wasn't always so. Readers opine on the best moments of everyone's favorite OS.'" Well, among all those "end of the century" lists, we finally found a worthwhile one. ;-)

jyang writes " Performance Computing has this December article: 'The world might seem to run on UNIX, but it wasn't always so. Readers opine on the best moments of everyone's favorite OS.'" Well, among all those "end of the century" lists, we finally found a worthwhile one. ;-)

BogoMips sent us an interesting tidbit running in Performance Computing currently. Jon "maddog" Hall explains some of the benchmarking issues associates with the DH Brown reports, as well as the ubiquitous Mindcraft tests. Very well written article, IMHO.

BogoMips sent us an interesting tidbit running in Performance Computing currently. Jon "maddog" Hall explains some of the benchmarking issues associates with the DH Brown reports, as well as the ubiquitous Mindcraft tests. Very well written article, IMHO.

MojoT sent us a link to Jon "Maddog" Hall's bit The Economics of Linux that appears in Performance Computing. Talks about why Linux is taking off and much more.

P.J. Hinton writes "Performance Computing has posted their first installment of a regular column on Linux called Penguin's Brew. It's being written by the venerable Jon maddog Hall. The first column is just the basics about what Linux is. It's a bookmarker for those of you who need to point someone to an article about what Linux is all about. "

HP is thinking of incorporating Linux into its product plans, but it does not quite know how yet: low end unix boxes? embedded OS? Obviously they are worried about cannibalizing sales of HP-UX. If HP did provide Linux in this manner, it would provide also provide support. This follows up on Unix Review's recent article.

In the most recent Unix Riot there is some discussion of Linux. However, the most interesting part of the article is the very last line which says "...an HP executive told me that "you can look for us to announce" support for Linux. How much support? Although he was not precise, the context of our conversation made me believe that HP may even ship Linux on PA-RISC.".

P.J. Hinton writes "Ever wonder why Unix backers are so passionate about their OS of choice? The author of this essay postulates an interesting explanation. " It makes sense to me, but can I get English credit for installing Debian on my laptop?

Mercutio writes "This story Seems to indicate that Dell is preparing to move its Linux installation program to a global, rather than purely European market. " The informal program seems to be working well enough that Dell execs are considering making Linux an official supported OS across the pond." Dell supporting Linux?" Update an anonymous Dell employee wrote in to say that the Performance Computing article is in error, as Dell does not do SCO, but instead DellWare (described as "Like CompUSA, but with Dell's name on it"). And this all sounded so good.

Something many people do not know is that European law prohibits tying products together. This makes it illegal for a vendor to refuse to sell you a PC without a Microsoft OS... This law exists to prevent anyone from leveraging their monopoly to enter a new market. (That's why a lot of US companies should seriously consider suing in Europe. They're more likely to win there). Perhaps in a related move, Dell is considering making Linux an officially supported OS in Europe. They appear happy with Linux's community support. (The SCO Unix link in the original article has moved... but you can see it on this page instead).

P.J. Hinton writes "The July 2 Unix Riot column at Performance Computing (the periodical formerly known as Unix Review) includes a blurb about Tcl inventor John Ousterhout going commercial with a company by the name of Scriptics. Their main product will be a Tcl/tk development environment called TclPro. The company's website says that the product is in beta. " I'm glad to see that the folks that created all this cool stuff are going to be able to get something in return...

Kenneth Oswalt writes "Performance Computing (aka the magazine once known as "Unix review") has an interesting review of Caldera Openlinux on their website and in the july issue of their mag. In it they describe the relative ease of installation, and the wide variety of applications, as well as comparing Redhat's documentation to that of Caldera. (spoiler, redhat wins.) "

Roberto Alsina writes "UnixReview published in march an article about KDE. The title is "The holy grail now in Beta", and can be found at here A fairly positive article, but the author makes some strange comments (I mean, who uses floppys these days?)"