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Red Hat and HP Establish Linux Storage Lab
Rob writes "Linux distributor Red Hat has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard to create a new
performance test lab to help customers deploy enterprise storage across Linux
environments. The lab will focus on performance and integration testing in order to
produce best practices and solutions guides, the companies said, and
will also enable customers to preview new technological developments."
Integration testing? Best practices? Performance guides?
:-P
Ugh, I have to be at work in ten minutes, please don't pollute my pre-work morning with corporatespeak.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
for linux to a viable in any market other than the niche home and business markets, it has to get rid of the one thing that has always kept it from competing directly with other OSs: the command console. the people who use linux and can do anything though the console are not the people who need to start using linux.
if linux is ever going to be adopted by anyone other than linux uber-geeks or completely masochistic home computer users, people (beginners & experts alike) must be able to do anything inside linux without ever having to use to command console. sure, keep it around for legacy, and so all those people who actually learned all those commands still have their novelty. for the rest of the world who's more interested in an easy-to-use OS and less in geek noteriety. that's who linux should be sold to: all the people who don't have it already.
if linux becomes as easy to use as OSX, with a comperable package management system and easy installation of new applications, then M$ and apple will both be screwed. M$ will have 2 competitors, OSX and linux. OSX appeals because it's just better than the other 2 (it does everything linux does, but without the hassle of an obsolete interface and an, at best, cryptic command language). however to run OSX you need an Apple. but since most will need a new computer to run vista, people will be looking for a new computer anyhow. by the time vista is out, so will be the cheaper and faster macs with the next version of OSX (vista is based on the features of the current OSX, so it will be a year behind form the start.) if people are offered a third choice: a distro of linux that's as easy to use as the other 2 main OSs.
if some linux distro realizes that this is the golden opportunity to debase M$ and to steal Apple's momentum to further the switch people to linux, they'll do what they have to do: make it super-easy, super-friendly, super-simple, yet still super-powerful.
DEATH TO THE COMMAND CONSOLE!