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Sharon Machlis writes: "The Linux operating system celebrated its 10th birthday this month, but as that milestone was lauded here this week at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, founder Linus Torvalds and other open-source gurus offered very different ideas of what will come next. In a lively panel discussion, Torvalds gathered with fellow Linux leaders before a packed house to debate the present state of the open-source movement . . . "
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Here's Rick Lehrbaum's "traditional" wrap-up of the embedded side of LinuxWorld from this week's show in San Francisco. He says the turnout overall was disappointing, but the showing for embedded was quite strong. Lots of good detail on what was there, plus some pictures too. Sounds like PDA & set-top boxes are the next big conquest for Linux. Worth a read!"
Jonny5 of LinuxLookup writes: "The third and final installment of my expo coverage has just been posted on LinuxLookup.com. Check it out here"
pnelson talks about Red hat CEO Matthew Szulik's keynote address at Linux World in SF. Szulik said "I'm here today to challenge the open source community. To ask you to join together to promote open source in our schools, and to protect open source in our government." Szulik highlighted the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project and ended with, "as we work as a community, we can fight as a community. And through the grassroots power of the Internet, together we can advance the cause...""
Why does africa have so much aids and murder?
oh yes, i remember, it's a continent of niggers.
Can anyone name 5 contributions to science made by niggers?
big stinky apes live here noW too.
Shoutouts to Big Mike, and Big Kev. ;)
Umm asked for a list of 5 contributions to science, not a list off niggers granted pity doctorates becuase of affirmative action.
How about YOU shut up? We don't need people like you bringing down the open source movement on slashdot.
Linux Rulez!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee ya their useless funded to meet a quota research really blows away hawking, feynman, newton, gallileo and copernicus.
Wow some of those great nigger scientists have been published in such fine periodicals as ebony. Woah, that's one big accomplishment.
Uh no one was stopping africans from making science before they started selling themselves to the slave traders.
Oh sorry i made a typo i meant number 2.
Ya i envy niggers, they get to live in the ghetto and get beat up by the police for selling crack. Damn i wish i could be like that.
Face it there's no excuses for the niggers there.
Which one developed crack cocaine again?
Shut up. You're the reason why some african americans treat us white people with disdain.
Niggers are the racist ones. I didn't mind niggers, but eventually it becomes obvious that niggers can't get over the fact that their cheiftan sold their ass to whitey so now we have to put up with this african whining for the next 200 years.
Now CmdrTaco has moderated down the majority of the posts.
Slashdot moderation is seriously flawed when an editor can just walk in and use his unlimited moderation point pool this way.
Yup, when one second there is only 2 or 3 modded posts then you refresh 3 seconds later and every post that doens't say "linux r0x0rz" is modded down you know an editor has decided to stroll through and abuse some power.
No, i don't want to be a nigger babysitter, but my uncle's a cop, and ya he does beat alot of nigger crack dealers, but thats becuase they usually try to fight when he puts the cuffs on.
only 2 out f 52 posts in this thread are scored above 0. Haha why to mod em down cmdr cockhole.
slashdot is gay. I can't wait till VA Linux goes out of business.
Can someone tell me exactly what the fuck "African American Studies" is? I know some nigger bitch doing this african american studies shit went to africa hopeing to connect with her long lost "brothas and sistas" and connect with her "peoples" but instead the reality of africa kicked her stupid "african american" ass, the bitch got kidnapped, beat and raped by some savage nigs. Stupid ass bitch. But seriously is "African American" studies anything more than an affirmative action trick to gove dumb niggers something to study in college when all the other subjects are to hard?
Seriously though, I have a black in the family tree. I'd better cut him down though. He's starting to get stinky.
We're talking about niggers here not fucking MP3 players.
Get real hippy. You wouldn't last 10 minutes in africa or south america. Better go to alaska.
The police in south american countries like brazil and peru walk around with fucking uzis in hand. Also stopping at a red light after dark in a south american city general means death unless you have a loaded machine gun available and a bullet proof vest.
And then there's Africa which is about 200 times worse.
Please get real hippy boy. I know you think you'll get in touch with nature and all that lame crap, but in reality your bitch ass will probably just get robbed and shot, left to rot in a gutter or ditch depending on where you happen to be.
Well that's good.
Then at least half of the racists are locked up.
how old are you, boy?
...
are you proud of your uncle?
is he bragging about how he's beating up "some niggaz"?
you are impressed by some racist cop (i know enough of those)
ok. then imagine being one of those "niggaz"
nice?
- steehf
Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there may be no future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share; red ink flows like a river of blood. Slackware Linux is perhaps the most in endangered. Let's look at the numbers.
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MandrakeSoft's CEO Henri Poole states that there are 70000 users of Linux-Mandrake. How many users of Debian GNU/Linux are there? Let's see. The number of Linux-Mandrake versus GNU/Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. The refore there are about 70000/5 = 14000 GNU/Linux users. Slackware posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of GNU/Linux posts. Therefore there are about 7000 users of Slackware. A recent article put RedHat Linux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (70000+14000+7000)*4 = 364000 RedHat Linux users. This is consistent with the number of RedHat Linux Usenet posts.
Now Linux companies are consolidating, overhauling their business plans, laying off staff, scaling back expansion plans and pushing back profitability schedules. "It would seem there are too many distributions for the market to bear," said Gartner analyst Tom Henkel. (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,26
Red Hat, Inc., the leader in developing deploying and managing open source linux solutions, announced on a reported basis, a net loss of $24.2 million. (http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-
Turbolinux, based in Brisbane, Calif., a Linux-based software provider has withdrawn a $60 million initial public offering "in light of current market conditions." (http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010320/n20215287_2.html) (http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/03/20/deals/ipo/)
Clayton-based Linuxgruven.com, a Linux training and service company with 106 employees, laid off 100 employees (http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2001
Lineo withdrew its initial public offering in January. Caldera Systems delayed the acquisition of Santa Cruz Operations' Unix software by a quarter. Linuxcare laid off dozens in February, with Linuxcare co-founders Dave Sifry and Dave LaDuke are among those departing. VA Linux Systems cut 114 people in February and delayed its expected profitability by nine months. (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,26
Due to the troubles of Corel, abysmal sales and so on, Corel Linux is going out of business and was nearly taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled OS. Owing to the GPL, SuSE is laying off almost all of its US staff. Major marketing surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Even LinuxWorld.com shut down "because of the economy and everything else" (http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/03/13
Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists (i.e. those who dabble with Minix, Xinu, etc). Linux continues to falter. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
To make matters even worse, if you put Linux next to some other operating systems out there for a cost comparison, the conclusions are devastating for Linux.
Linux costs not only more because of the frequent updates which require new cdrom's to be bought if you don't have a high speed Internet connection.
Another factor in Linux cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose loses water, when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally.
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I can go on and on and on, but the message is clear. In this world, there is no place for Linux. It's not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc. The best place it should ever reach is the toy store, and even that would be flattering.
Linux is DYING!