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Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture
Soulfader writes "It seems that the Air Force has not learned from the Navy's folly in single-source mammoth contracts and their attendant problems, and is now working on something similar with Dell and Microsoft. Particularly interesting is the article's assertion that the Air Force is 'fed up' with Microsoft OS problems--but not enough to switch to something else. Instead, they're going to be getting a custom 'solution' of Windows products specially configured for their use. Is this the ever-hoped-for 'good' version of Windows, or more along the line of the sucks-in-new-and-interesting-ways version of Highlander II?"
What folly? That link has no information regarding a folly. So what's the problem? Fuck all y'all.
The military will consider linux when linus gives as much money to congressmen as linus, and when linus takes high level decision makers on junkets and buys them rolex watches.
Until then they will only use windows. They know who butters their bread and it ain't linus.
evil is as evil does
well, its better than using a mac ( let the flames begin!!! ) in all seriousness, i think they should either go linux, or make their own friggen os
I'd like to see your win 2k. I give my Mandrake 9.1 system quite a workout. Bittorrent (Bittornado, curses client) runs most of the time. At the same time I can be running burning software (K3B) and playing music and surfing the web all at once, on a 750MHz CPU with 128 MB of RAM (which makes heavy use of swap when I'm doing all of the above). I haven't touched Win2k, but I'd be in coaster hell if I tried that on WinME. The only downside is that when you switch tasks (or do heavy RAM allocating/deallocating) is can get quite slow, but that's just the scheduler setting priorities and giving the burner enough resources not to coaster.
My brother has Win XP (granted, you said Win 2k, but they're off of the same base architecture) and he needs to clean out the spyware more often than I need to reboot. My mom also has Win XP, and before she upgraded from 128MB to 512MB of RAM, her computer was slower than mine despite having a CPU at over 2x the clock speed (both AMD chips). Now they're comparable, hers being better for heavy number crunching like 3D games and mine has a more responsive GUI (even though I'm running KDE - the most bloated GUI in Linuxland - and on 1/4 the RAM).
My uptime is measured in weeks, and I could easily go for months if I got myself an uninterrupted power supply.