I have been following openMosix for many years and, to be honest, the development team was never much good. OpenMosix worked best shortly after it was forked from Mosix, and it was down-hill ever since - about 10 years now! The latest stuff for the 2.6 kernel never worked at all.
That said, this cluster-level kernel-hacking is probably just too hard to do right, unless you were to start from the ground-up. Plan9 anyone?
Yes, but they are idiots. For instance, my wife, my kids, and I all use the same machine. Must make for a very interesting viewer profile. And of course there is always Firefox...
More easy to convince people that MS is evil because it is now more easy to see. But they have picked on the wrong people this time. Most Open Source folks are do-gooders: they have little cash interest and do not give up. Besides, Open Source has some very powerful friends.
It is clear that Microsoft has "declared war" on Open Source. We must take punishing counter-steps. Start with an MSNBC boycott. No more Ford. Absolutly NO purchases of Microsoft products for the household. Microsoft MUST be disciplined like a spoiled child until they learn to behave themselves in a civilized fashion.
This is showing desperation. Personally, I did not think that MicroSoft's position was so bad. But this (SCO) sort of behaviour seems to indicate otherwise.
Joke all you want - if MicroSquish is doing anthing more than spouting more FUD, this will be a War. Almost certainly IBM and Sun, and perhaps Oracle will be pulled into this thing. Very very ugly. Very bad for business. Don't think its going to happen.
Kenneth Wainstein, an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, told the assembled Senators that this provision of the bill would simply "fill a gap in our laws" by allowing the phone companies to assist the government.
This Kenneth Wainstein fellow - can he possibly believe what he is saying? "fill a gap in our laws" by making nonsense out of our laws? And furthermore, "assist the government"? How about you Kenneth assisting the citizens of our country from invasions of privacy!
This Kenneth creep must work for the Department of Injustice.
Which is why correct propaganda guidance is important, without correct propaganda guidance, it would be easy for the wrong facts to be reported and the wrong things to be said. Even worse than incorrect propaganda is marginally correct propaganda, where it is not clear who we should punish - or how much to punish. It is very hard here in the communications office...
RMS does not have to point out the failings of Cuba - they are a constant part of the news we are fed. On the other hand, not enough people are protesting our Gulags - and we should be holding ourselves up to a higher standard than Cuba is.
I'm not so good with acronyms - what is the difference between a DSP/SPU and a GPU? Why would programming against a GPU be any (much?) easier than programming against a DSP (SPU)?
You must have a very minimal configuration. Where I work, and this is the truth, it usually takes about 5 minutes to boot into a working application under XP. Of course the boot includes network authentication, hot-patch uploads, virus scans, etc. But, this is a major corporation, and this waste of time seems to be tolerable for thousands of people every day. May I go so far to say that boot-up time is a non-issue at many large companies?
This is interesting. It is true that many people think that the BSD license is actually a more liberal licence than the GPL. Why is it, then, that there is much more software developed under the GPL? Could it be that the GPL is preferred because it is more restrictive?
The GPL Restrictive in a good way - in a way that allows the code to live a life of its own, independent of the person who happens to compile it into an executable object. This "independent life" of the code is also extremely favorable to the end-user, whether they know it or not. The code should always be available to be picked-up again if it is ever dropped by the original programmers. There is no doubt that the GPL will continue to win the Darwinian struggle for mind-share.
It's not the kernel that defines linux, more importantly it is the compilers and development tool chain. Secondarily it is the packaging mechanisms, such as apt, rpm, etc.
We may see the day (not neccessarily what I wish) when most popular distributions of linux no longer use the Torvalds kernel. There are already options such as the FreeBSD kernel, a Solaris kernel, and... HURD.
It would be interesting to compile a list of the companies that M$ has done-in though "questionable" buisness practices (i.e. outside of normal competition). To the above I would add Bristol Technologies and Borland. Many others maybe more indirectly, such as DEC.
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Fascism on the rise.
Of course it is not "Linux" without Linus. I guess we will have to call it GNU/OpenSolaris. Or not. How about GnuSun?
I have been following openMosix for many years and, to be honest, the development team was never much good. OpenMosix worked best shortly after it was forked from Mosix, and it was down-hill ever since - about 10 years now! The latest stuff for the 2.6 kernel never worked at all. That said, this cluster-level kernel-hacking is probably just too hard to do right, unless you were to start from the ground-up. Plan9 anyone?
Yes, but they are idiots. For instance, my wife, my kids, and I all use the same machine. Must make for a very interesting viewer profile. And of course there is always Firefox...
More easy to convince people that MS is evil because it is now more easy to see. But they have picked on the wrong people this time. Most Open Source folks are do-gooders: they have little cash interest and do not give up. Besides, Open Source has some very powerful friends.
It is clear that Microsoft has "declared war" on Open Source. We must take punishing counter-steps. Start with an MSNBC boycott. No more Ford. Absolutly NO purchases of Microsoft products for the household. Microsoft MUST be disciplined like a spoiled child until they learn to behave themselves in a civilized fashion.
This is showing desperation. Personally, I did not think that MicroSoft's position was so bad. But this (SCO) sort of behaviour seems to indicate otherwise.
Joke all you want - if MicroSquish is doing anthing more than spouting more FUD, this will be a War. Almost certainly IBM and Sun, and perhaps Oracle will be pulled into this thing. Very very ugly. Very bad for business. Don't think its going to happen.
This Kenneth creep must work for the Department of Injustice.
Yea, and the NT 4.0 rearchitecture very-much compromised the integrity of the NT kernel. Something we all pay for every day.
After 20 years of "investing" in a 401K I still do not have nearly enough to retire on.
Boys will be Boys, and corporations will be sloganeering hucksters. Free Software continues on as one of the great revolutionary trends of our time.
Which is why correct propaganda guidance is important, without correct propaganda guidance, it would be easy for the wrong facts to be reported and the wrong things to be said. Even worse than incorrect propaganda is marginally correct propaganda, where it is not clear who we should punish - or how much to punish. It is very hard here in the communications office...
No one, especially RMS, would say that actual political freedom is irrelevant (you should check out his website).
Gee Dude, guess you have never heard of the FSF group/entity. Or me and my friends.
RMS does not have to point out the failings of Cuba - they are a constant part of the news we are fed. On the other hand, not enough people are protesting our Gulags - and we should be holding ourselves up to a higher standard than Cuba is.
In the new USofA we seem insane because we are so right it is confusing.
I guess hell has frozen over. Mao is ice-skating.
don't the police in UK have better things to do than arrest wi-fi piggy-backers? Of course, it must all be part of the "war on terror"!
I'm not so good with acronyms - what is the difference between a DSP/SPU and a GPU? Why would programming against a GPU be any (much?) easier than programming against a DSP (SPU)?
You must have a very minimal configuration. Where I work, and this is the truth, it usually takes about 5 minutes to boot into a working application under XP. Of course the boot includes network authentication, hot-patch uploads, virus scans, etc. But, this is a major corporation, and this waste of time seems to be tolerable for thousands of people every day. May I go so far to say that boot-up time is a non-issue at many large companies?
What?? What?? I'm a little hard of hearing...
This is interesting. It is true that many people think that the BSD license is actually a more liberal licence than the GPL. Why is it, then, that there is much more software developed under the GPL? Could it be that the GPL is preferred because it is more restrictive?
The GPL Restrictive in a good way - in a way that allows the code to live a life of its own, independent of the person who happens to compile it into an executable object. This "independent life" of the code is also extremely favorable to the end-user, whether they know it or not. The code should always be available to be picked-up again if it is ever dropped by the original programmers. There is no doubt that the GPL will continue to win the Darwinian struggle for mind-share.
It's not the kernel that defines linux, more importantly it is the compilers and development tool chain. Secondarily it is the packaging mechanisms, such as apt, rpm, etc. We may see the day (not neccessarily what I wish) when most popular distributions of linux no longer use the Torvalds kernel. There are already options such as the FreeBSD kernel, a Solaris kernel, and ... HURD.