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Linux Claims 4 of the Top 5 Supercomputer Spots
Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that the November 2005 list of supercomputers has been published. Certainly something to note is that four of the top five use linux. Relatedly Multiflow writes "CNET is reporting that the number of supercomputers on the Top500 list which use Intel Itanium 2 microprocessors has fallen by almost 50% in the past year. While new higher performance Itanium chips are in the pipeline, the article reports that 64 bit Xeons and Opterons have increased their representation on Top500."
But our supercomputer, System X is the top supercomputer in academia! :-D
(Man, it's already been slashdotted!)
-Acercanto
You can have only two of the following
three qualities when developing a product:
cheap, fast or good. You can produce something
cheap and fast, but it won't be good,
good and fast, but it won't be cheap,
good and cheap, but it won't be fast.
You can have only two of the following three qualities when developing a product: cheap, fast or good.
and how many any software from Microsoft (OS, Apps, program lang, etc?)
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que the linux/amd fanboy bashings of WINTEL!!! ;-)
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The problem is, it's not at 10%. It's at one or two percent of the Desktop market, which means that a corporation who holds 90% of the market can use their muscle to make using Linux difficult. It's hard enough to convince someone to make their application Linux-compatible or bundle their computer with Linux with such a small amount of marketshare, and it gets worse when someone is offering them deals NOT to do it. Ten percent would mean it was established enough that they couldn't do that, because coders and hardware manufacturers would look at it and see a sizable amount of users they could tap into.
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It's people like you that slow the progress of Linux desktop with your "everyone is stupid" attitude and everyone should use the "kernal". Geeks & People are two different species im affraid!
Ubuntu will be on par with with WindowsXP for user-friendliness when it doesnt take 4 hours to figure out how to make X display the proper monitor resolutions in Gnome (among other random frustrations). Don't get me wrong, I've been enjoying learning / configuring a Linux system, but the average computer user would have given up in the first 30 minutes and booted back up to XP.
I don't need this, I've got a Master's Degree in folklore and mythology!
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How much electricty has been wasted by all of those Unix workstations kept on 24 hours a day unused in schools and offices because the users don't want to wait for a boot up disk check even though the computer is not being used?