Linux on the Desktop

Dhar writes: "Rob Valliere has posted a Windows vs. Linux review: "This review focused on Linux Red Hat 7.1 from a business user's view and attempted to answer my client's question "Can Linux be used as a replacement for Windows 2000". After an intensive hands-on Linux project lasting several months, I was able to provide my client with a pertinent answer to this question." I like the answer. ;-)" It's good that he covers the pitfalls he encountered; opportunities for improvement.

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The real power of linux/unix

[Anonymous Coward]

Instead of using complex and expensive superscalar and vector processors one can take another approach, like our company did. We chose Zilog's Z80A as our base processor. You can get them for 1c these days, so it's quite cool. Now we built a NUMA/XBAR system with 1,256,000 Z80s running a single image. Each processor has 64Kb of RAM for it's own, and runs a portion of the simulation that it pushes to the master processor, a single Intel Pentium III, that takes the data and creates the graphical representation in realtime. As the Z80 doesn't need a cache you'll never run into cache coherency problems. We developed a special kernel called Zix and developed a finetuned compiler and parallelizer to create the Solar System simulation.

If enough people is interested I can post some more info and links.

Sincerely, Mike Bouma (NASA engineer)

You know...

[Wind_Walker]

What makes me think, for some strange reason, that if they had determined (as I have determined on my own) that Windows 2000 is a superior operating system than Linux, that we would never see this report on Slashdot, or that this article would have even been written?

Why is it that when Microsoft posts something about how Windows is Better, we get a Slashdot article debunking them?

Yet another example of Slashdot moderator bias. Please, change the title of the site from "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" to "News for Linux Users. Stuff that Hates Microsoft".

The truth is out there.

[javaman235]

The fact of the matter that everybody has known for a long time is that only pedophiles and terrorists use Linux on the Desktop.

On the whole, this fact has been too long ignored...Even though when you think about it, do you know ANYBODY who uses Linux as a desktop OS who is not

A) A terrorist

B) A pedophile

I'll bet you don't, unless you use it yourself. Then you don't notice that your cohorts are terrorists and pedophiles, because you are too busy hiding the fact that you are a terrorist and/or pedophile yourself. Or you may be in denial, telling yourself that those fantasies about mortar shells and Microsoft are natural, as are those thoughts about underage Britney Spears Dancing naked on your computer desk. Well guess what: THEY'RE NOT! So wake up and smell the coffee, you sick Osama bin Homo Linux geeks.