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Linux Used To Make "Star Trek, Nemesis"
Mike McCune writes "The "Linux Journal" has a nice article about the switch
from Irix to Linux at Digital Domain and the use of Linux in 'Star Trek, Nemesis.' I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'"
``I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'''
No. It means the Enterprise is finally ready for Linux.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
I wonder if Data runs on an advanced version of the Linux kernel... It would explain his lack of humor....
I guess this means that Linux is finally ready for 'The Enterprise.'
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For that, you should surely be PUNished.
When companies switch from Irix to Linux, it means one of two things:
* they bought new SGI workstations, which run Linux, OR
* they couldn't afford SGI workstations, so they bought other Intel workstations with Linux.
It's not an amazing breakthrough jump. It's just that SGI barely sells Irix machines anymore.
Here's the deal: a switch from IRIX to Linux doesn't mean a fucking thing. They've switched from one variant of Unix to another. What was gained in the end? A net gain overall for Unix of not a fucking thing. Zero.
If they switched from Windows- or Mac-based machines, then this would be legit. Other than that it's meaningless in the sense of Linux is Taking Over.
That's all fine and great that it makes for a good story, but if the point is to claim that somehow people are realizing the benefits of Unix-derived operating systems, then it means squat.
Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields without someone having to crawl through dark monster infeseted tunnels?
I thought,Linux was ready for the enterpise since Kernel 1.7.0.1-D.
... whenever a text is transmitted, variation occurs. This is because human beings are careless, fallible, and occasiona
Rendering pretty pictures is oh-so-boring. I'd like to sit in front of a mic at a console, utter the command "Make it sew!" then watch a beowulf cluster of Singers make the whole crew wardrobe in 4 minutes, including the time needed for Troi's custom boob expansion panels.
Trolling is a art,
Moving a renderfarm to a Linux cluster isn't surprising. Since rendering is an "Embarrassingly parallel" computation and AMD/Intel has more FLOPS/$ compared to the MIPS processors, this is expected. When you need to pass a lot of data between processors, you'll need one of those Origin 3000 servers with 1000 processors. Linux can't do this yet.
What is interesting though, is that they moved the workstation applications from SGI to Linux. I didn't know that the SGI hardware was lagging behind that much.
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I guess this just give more validity to the "Microsoft as Borg" line of thinking...
and giving plenty more tag-lines to Linux PR - "Who's handling your Enterprise software these days? Linux, where no company has gone before."
Urghh.... Must... Stop... Stupid... Puns... Kill... Timothy... for... starting... it...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
"so please cut the bullshit and post real news stories"
You are new to slashdot, right?
Allow me to present this as timothy should have.
I'm as mimsy as the next borogove but your mome raths are completely outgrabe.
The reason SGI is probably selling less Irix machines is that Linux is available, cheaper, and does what buyers want.
No. Five years ago, SGI was selling fewer IRIX machines because Windows NT was available, cheaper, and did what buyers wanted. Two years ago, it was because Windows 2000 was available, cheaper, and did what buyers wanted. Last year it was Linux. This year it's Mac OS X. Who knows what it will be next year?
The fact that Linux is displacing IRIX in a lot of cases says much more about SGI than it does about Linux.
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I'm not sure if that's true. Looking over SGI's website, they don't seem to sell ANY linux based workstations any more. Only the Fuel and the Octane2 (both IRIX/MIPS machines.)
They do have a yet-to-be-released NUMA Linux system based on Itanium, but it probably shouldn't be thought of as a workstation.
I'm guessing you're probably right though that "SGI barely sells Irix machines". Not sure how many they're selling, but they're still cettainly losing money.
It does seem as if the plot and story were created on a 286.
"Who knows what it will be next year?"
I've got money on OS/2.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Which OS would the Klingons use? Klingons have long hair and beards and live in dark dirty rooms, so we know that they're UNIX users. But are they Linux users? They certainly have bad tempers, which means they'd feel right at home on the Linux kernel developers list. But take a look at Klingon ships. They're pretty simple and a little rough around the edges, but at the same time really tough and secure. With these design priorities, it's pretty safe to say that they're running OpenBSD.
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Not convinced? Consider this additional evidence. On TNG, the Klingons are worried that their traditional values are dying. On Slashdot, the crapflooding trolls declare daily that BSD is dying. 'Nuff said.
Quoting the 2.4.20 changelog, "replace end user confusing 'on fire' joke with real info"
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