Not two vendors ship the same kernel. So in the end it's up to the vendor you use to tweak your kernel. Redhats are heavily patched to suit (what they belive) is there users needs..
Apple are constantly pushing up the system requirements for new OS releases. Once there is a significantly faster machine out from them, expect to see even more cycle-eating eye candy in MacOS. MacOS X is hardly usable on old iMacs, I've tried it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in a few years the G4s were considered too old to run the latest versions of MacOS.
This is speculation and should have been left out. On about all other points I agree with you.
It boiles down to that software written for mainstream unixes runs on Mac but not the other way around. This is of course very deliberate from Apple and thats why I don't touch them. Unix has been through incaompabilities before but this takes the grand price.
Apple can't even release a quicktime player for other unixes... Great move guys. We love you and will surely buy your systems.
MS can give money to the companies/people using this and raise the price on WinXP/Office and make a profit anyway. (And yes, I know they are not related but IE wasn't that either.)
The MPEG group can't do that. And thats why they think it's unfair. They have to earn money on the actual product or they can't survive.
I couldn't care less about this one though because we need a truly open standard for video.
I thought this was how open source companies were supposed to make their money?
And that would be ok. Now, I didn't read this but having to give up rights to spread information you know just to access there documentation is just wierd. Sounds like a new move and needs a discussion. I for one wouldn't sign a ny contract like that. At least not for getting docs for a GUI for my computer.
Alphas have roughly double speed of same mhz PentiumII or SparcII cpu:s. My own estimates after having run all of them in heavy load webserver/db. Athlon is a litte faster/clock than P2 but it isn't up there with the Alpha. The Mhz is of course much higher.
He is talking about the EV6 bus. The CPU is different but uses similiar chipset. There are Alpha motherboards using AMD760 chipset that of course where made for Athlons.
Is this any different from a closed source product? If this where true there would be no issues with closed source. But there are, they are successfully attacked just as frequently as open source software, in many many cases more.
All it takes is one programmer to find the adware in your latest app and then the word is out. Everybody doesn't need to check the sourcecode but without it released nobody can. Someone a few comments up was talking about webcam/microphone in the new flash. You have to ask if you trust Macromedia to have these things in flash. With the source someone could check to see that nothing wrong is going on. Even remove that part as it isn't the very best idea to have on the web. Could bring a whole new meaning to spyware. Some companies just do whatever it takes to serve you a targeted banner.
You think so. The actual "keypressing" from the programmer is a very small part in programming. The thinking is probably 90%. After the thinking 1 or 3 lines of code doesn't really matter. Just the fact that it's 1 or 3 lines of wellplanned bugfree code.
I do agree on that if you can use a well tested library function (1 line) or make your own function (3 lines) the 1 liner for the most part is the better choice. If that is what you meant.
Exactly, apple wants to play nice with the opensource community and releases a kernel. Something the community got tons of allready, and very good ones too. If there where a penny to earn in apples kernel they wouldn't release that either, that is if it where better than Linux/FreeBDS etc.
They have some programs which clearly are better than what the opensource community has come up with but none of this is open source.
I don't think thats fair, and I think that matters.
Dream on AC. The reason Linux is gaining market share is because it gets the job done and because people know how to use it.
Sure we know it so well because it's free beer and we have used it at home but when I get it for work I pick it because it's a great OS with great apps.
How interessting. How long has it taken MS to come up with something that is even 10% of a bash shell? And thats pretty basic stuff in an OS. I can't live without it.
I saw the link prefetching feature and thought oh no, there goes our server bandwith. But after reading the FAQ it seems that it's the author of the page that selects what's prefetched and whats not.
Slashdot Mirror
What, all 10 of them?
More than there are Xbox users anyway..
One other things that would be awesome with all vector desktop is printing. That could be just gorgeous with printing your desktop in true 600dpi.
You do not have to run Linus stock kernel.
Not two vendors ship the same kernel. So in the end it's up to the vendor you use to tweak your kernel. Redhats are heavily patched to suit (what they belive) is there users needs..
I think thats a good system.
Apple are constantly pushing up the system requirements for new OS releases. Once there is a significantly faster machine out from them, expect to see even more cycle-eating eye candy in MacOS. MacOS X is hardly usable on old iMacs, I've tried it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in a few years the G4s were considered too old to run the latest versions of MacOS.
This is speculation and should have been left out. On about all other points I agree with you.
It boiles down to that software written for mainstream unixes runs on Mac but not the other way around. This is of course very deliberate from Apple and thats why I don't touch them. Unix has been through incaompabilities before but this takes the grand price.
Apple can't even release a quicktime player for other unixes... Great move guys. We love you and will surely buy your systems.
You are quite right except that you don't have to embed anything. just put a image tag in the mail.
MS can give money to the companies/people using this and raise the price on WinXP/Office and make a profit anyway. (And yes, I know they are not related but IE wasn't that either.)
The MPEG group can't do that. And thats why they think it's unfair. They have to earn money on the actual product or they can't survive.
I couldn't care less about this one though because we need a truly open standard for video.
Fortunaly Linux and *BSD runs on most >=32bit hardware so that shouldn't be a problem.
You should know better. Code doesn't stop working when a vendor goes away.
Depends on if you want to get rooted. Security patches are important for this kind of product.
and it's not compatible with as much hardware as Windows XP
Oh.. You run WinXP on your Enterprise 450... Not compatible you say.. Not on Ibook either..
So as long as you choose the right hardware WinXP is more compatible. Not really that simple anymore.
I thought this was how open source companies were supposed to make their money?
And that would be ok. Now, I didn't read this but having to give up rights to spread information you know just to access there documentation is just wierd. Sounds like a new move and needs a discussion. I for one wouldn't sign a ny contract like that. At least not for getting docs for a GUI for my computer.
Alphas have roughly double speed of same mhz PentiumII or SparcII cpu:s. My own estimates after having run all of them in heavy load webserver/db. Athlon is a litte faster/clock than P2 but it isn't up there with the Alpha. The Mhz is of course much higher.
He is talking about the EV6 bus. The CPU is different but uses similiar chipset. There are Alpha motherboards using AMD760 chipset that of course where made for Athlons.
Is this any different from a closed source product? If this where true there would be no issues with closed source. But there are, they are successfully attacked just as frequently as open source software, in many many cases more.
All it takes is one programmer to find the adware in your latest app and then the word is out. Everybody doesn't need to check the sourcecode but without it released nobody can. Someone a few comments up was talking about webcam/microphone in the new flash. You have to ask if you trust Macromedia to have these things in flash. With the source someone could check to see that nothing wrong is going on. Even remove that part as it isn't the very best idea to have on the web. Could bring a whole new meaning to spyware. Some companies just do whatever it takes to serve you a targeted banner.
This is the ancient dotball from the amiga demo time. I know someone would make good use of it. Don't see what the news is yet though.
but at least I get the satisfaction of a "fuck you" when it redirects to
How about a forward instead.
info@dataresourceconsulting.com
It was written by one person, Linux Torvalds
And Bill Gates wrote windows, all of it.
Don't talk like this, you may end up missing.
That's almost $2000 worth of software (full, licensed versions) for about $25.
No, it's not. It's $25 worth of software. Or do you resell the software for $2000? Didn't think so.
the load balancer would NAT those two systems,
Of course you would need at least two loadbalancers to. Available here.
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
The stuff you can do with these kernel patches cost about $1000 for a hardware solution. And more if you want failover.
You think so. The actual "keypressing" from the programmer is a very small part in programming. The thinking is probably 90%. After the thinking 1 or 3 lines of code doesn't really matter. Just the fact that it's 1 or 3 lines of wellplanned bugfree code.
I do agree on that if you can use a well tested library function (1 line) or make your own function (3 lines) the 1 liner for the most part is the better choice. If that is what you meant.
Exactly, apple wants to play nice with the opensource community and releases a kernel. Something the community got tons of allready, and very good ones too. If there where a penny to earn in apples kernel they wouldn't release that either, that is if it where better than Linux/FreeBDS etc.
They have some programs which clearly are better than what the opensource community has come up with but none of this is open source.
I don't think thats fair, and I think that matters.
Dream on AC. The reason Linux is gaining market share is because it gets the job done and because people know how to use it.
Sure we know it so well because it's free beer and we have used it at home but when I get it for work I pick it because it's a great OS with great apps.
How interessting. How long has it taken MS to come up with something that is even 10% of a bash shell? And thats pretty basic stuff in an OS. I can't live without it.
I saw the link prefetching feature and thought oh no, there goes our server bandwith. But after reading the FAQ it seems that it's the author of the page that selects what's prefetched and whats not.
Nice feature.