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NY Times article on Open Source
sean dreilinger sent in a link to a NY Times
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that praises open source software and marks it as an unpredicted
computing change of 1998.
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It is oh so much fun to read computer-related articles written by people who hardly, if ever, know how to search for a file in their harddrives. The ones who obviously got brainwashed and are full of laughable ideas. "Windows NT, Microsoft's industrial-strength operating system." Yeah, right, and BillC didn't have sex with that woman.
One thing I cannot understand: why does slashdot NEVER get slasdotted?
Funny you should mention industrial strength. I recently read (and largely believed) an article from Rockwell Automation (http://www.openautomation.com/softlogix/docs/whit epapers/Realtime_NT/Realtime_Whitepaper. asp) suggesting that NT is actually suitable for soft RT industrial control... unfortunately that doesn't make it suitable as a server of any variety (and our Payroll/Superannuation etc. software performs so poorly on NT that we don't recommend any NT solution for more than 5 users... even though the same hardware should support 50 users on Linux, SCO Unix, Solaris x86 et al.). Being literaly "industrial strength" doesn't mean much to the rest of us.
Why not? it would eliminate all the confusion about how to pronounce Linux if it was just standardised and that standard should rhyme with orange. Why so that all the poets in the world can finally use the word orange in their limricks. The excact pronounciation I propose is Line-orange.
There once was a man with a orange,
He ran all his software on Linux,
it never did crash,
he held a great bash,
that man nammed Tux with an orange.
FreeBSD is better as a server than Linux.
CSRG is already dead, FreeBSD is dying. According to some folks in the know, the last FreeBSD has already been made.
The main place I come across the term "industrial strength" is in reference to bathroom cleansers. Industrial strength means it smells worse and is more corrosive, so yes, NT qualifies.
The article goes into this. If you are very careful about what hardware and drivers you use, and only run your industrial control software on the machine, it is reliable. That was my point: that being reliable in an industrial setting is irrelevent to whether or not it is reliable in a desktop or server setting (and we've all seen that it's not).
This is what I like to call, US bastardization.
Yes, I'm from the US, so I have a unique insight on US bastardization of language. Everyone I know says "Linux" with a soft i (which rhymes with 'cynics').
By the same note, everyone I've ever known prounced 'Minix' with a soft i as well, as "minicks". Since Linux was derived from Minix, it was a natural transition to go from min'ix to lin'ix.
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
We musta /.'d 'em. What server are they using? And why has all this MCSE add crap followed me to slashdot?
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
The article is, in part, an outgrowth of SVLUG's "Silicon Valley Tea Party" at Microsoft's Palo Alto office, which the reporter attended. She has also interviewed many prominent open source people, and my guess is that she'll be writing more articles on the subject.
Rick Moenrick@hugin.imat.com
FreeBSD is dying. According to some folks in the know, the last FreeBSD has already been made.
An unknown anonymous source quoting an unknown anonymous source. Right. I think you're so full of crap, your irises are turning brown.
Rick Moenrick@hugin.imat.com
How can someone 'predict' that something will be an 'unpredicted' force? Of course, that's ignoring the fact that open source software has already become a huge force and people have already been predicting it's leaps and bounds in this New Year.
Well, it's very nice to hear your views on Bill Clinton, but the NYT has actually been anti-Bill in the great republican crusade, so that puts you in agreement with them.
Maybe next time you'll keep your politics and technology separate so your punch lines don't coagulate into contradictions.
Interesting new use for Apache mentioned in the article: apparently many ISPs use it for making web pages
ROTFL
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
Yup, just pronounce 'cynics' with a funny accent. :)
There are Cynux in every crowd...
But it least it's the NY Times.
So Linux rhymes with 'cynics' eh...
While reading the NY Times article something struck me. Does anyone else find it kind of ironic how publications so many times seem to choose the word "cynics" for describing the pronunciation of "Linux"?