eWeek on Linux

alexhmit01 writes "One of the better articles that I've read covering Linux in real deployments, eWeek has an article entitled, The state of Linux: Live free or die?, gives coverage of where Linux has improved in 2.4 and what it needs. It covers Linux's success as a web server, where it comes up short against other Unices, etc. It's a good read for the non-programmers in the Open Source Movement... for it focuses upon market adoption, not just technical capacity." Nothing exciting and new here, but its a nice little article, especially talking about whats new and wacky in the 2.4 kernel.

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The article doesn't say much.

[perdida]

It says what every single article about linux says every time, say, a new kernel comes out?

1) Linux is much more stable than comparable Windows solution for insert something you want a computer(s) to do.

2) However, it still doesn't have all of the security features that Sun or *BSD has.

3)There are assorted problems with kernel x.x, which will be fixed soon with the release of the next kernel.

And before you say, "It's moving up to mission critical!" Tell me what the heck does mission critical mean, anyway? I for one think that the artificially imposed heirarchy over what is "mission critical" or not causes the problems that both the producers of computer services and the consumers of those services feel. For instance, it is very mission critical to keep the cookies rolling in, so you can incessantly market to a new stream of hapless email addresses, but it is NOT mission critical to respond to the angry email from these same addresses when a user encounters a compatibility problem or has damaged equipment, etc.

The mission is profit, or at least survival, keeping that cash flowing. THAT is what is mission critical.

I would think that some journalism which steps outside the boilerplate model mentioned above, something that would actually relate these firms' ACTUAL priorities to their choice of operating systems, software, hardware, etc., all of these debates we have here at /. about such things would be far more fruitful.

ZDNet boring recipes for Linux articles

[gallir]

These are excerpts from ZDNet Linux Report Style Book that was stolen by a ZDNet worker. It's very interesting that, according to reliable sources, it looks quite similar to C|Net Style Book.

Unavoidable questions - questions for Linus and gang:

• Do you think Linux is ready for the enterprise?
• When are you going to start the new development branch?
• Do you think a kernel branch could affect negatively?
• Do you agree in that Linux is still not ready for supporting workloads required by applications like ERP...?
• What are your goals going forward?
• Do you think that those performance issues have been/will be resolved?
• Do you think Linux caoul be a Windows competitor in the desktop war?
• What do you mean with "World Domination"?
• ...

Unavoidable Expert/Journalist Comments in a Linux article.

• Linux 2.4 in big leap in the field of a enterprise class OS.
• It's still lacks of security featurs as entreprise class Unices.
• It's still lacks, but improvements can be seen in every release, of the performance figures as enterprise class OSes for loaded web servers and multiples interfaces.
• There is still a way to go before it becomes a true mission-critical, enterprise-class...
• It's enterprise ready for certain applications.
• We welcome the developers efforts to make Linux more robust and scalable.
• It's still needed the support for journaling file system
• While a few IT managers are beginning to move critical applications... other don't dude...
• Linux, in its last reincarnation, has got a better support for SMP, storage and huge RAM demanded by enterprise class databases.
• With the open-source kernel, you can make changes to it so that it fit your needs.
• ...

--ricardo