I have never installed BSD on either an X86 or Mac based machine. Being relatively new to the world of *nix, is the installer for this new BSD or any other fairly "friendly"?
I have installed Red Hat V4 and up and found them very easy, Slack the same, and Suse could be installed by a one armed, blind, Yak herder with the IQ of your average houseplant. Those installers were all not only easy, but detected most of my hardware on installation except Suse, which didn't use my sound card until I re-built the kernel, NBD.
How is BSD for that? I would like to have a go at it some time, but unfortunately my time for tinkering with new OS's is fairly limited so I prefer the installation to be as painless as I can manage.
Didn't Al Gore invent the Beawulf cluster and the 1.ghz computer?
At the CalTech Center for Advanced Computing Research they are using HP Exemplars in a similar fashion. Though they claim "The HP Exemplar X-Class server installed at CACR, at 256 CPUs and 64GB memory, is the largest cache-coherent shared-memory computer in the world" and I don't _think_ that is true anymore, it is still an impressive piece o' hardware and the work looks mighty cool. From what I have read on it, they are simulating and databasing the results of particle collider experiments which are planned in a few years. Personally, I like the idea of researchers having the ability to do that kind of stuff on a _simulated_ basis and get most of the bugs worked out ahead of time. If they can do that with success for nuclear testing we may see the end of the need for "test detonations". I'm not some peace love and tofu GreenPeace activist, but I'd rather not irradiate a good portion of the only planet we have in the name or science. Call me wacky.
Hmmm... think they'd let me use it as a Quake3 server?
If Gods were to create the perfect liquid for consumption, it's name would be Guinness. Now, the question does of course beg to be asked, why are you tasting socks?
I support the control of the network to the left with me word with you why. It is really unjust that others must load it with the controls of sale, if the Internet companies do not have. This attracts buyers with the Internet Sites in place of memory. Additionally the paying people hunt it with the acquisition of sale in the function everything her life lasting, I do not look up not, why them should be simply different, because she is on the Internet.
Do you waaaaaaant to go back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
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...you're a penguin. I should have known.
Herrings at 10 paces!
Hmmmm.... Yes... Yes I think I can see one of those huge gas giants now! MY GOD it's... It's tremendous! It's... oh... sorry... it's Marlin Brando.
Easy mistake.
Unhand that name!
Think of the pr0n! The pr0n! I could download all of alt.binaries.naughty.bits in a matter of seconds!
8 Track: "I'm not dead!"
CD: "shut up, you're not fooling anyone."
Bruce Sterling: "Sorry, I can't take him if he isn't dead."
8 Track: "I think I'll go for a walk!"
CD: "Look, do us a favor...?"
8 Track: "I feel happy! I feel..."
Bruce Sterling: *looks about* *!WHAP!*
8 Track: "...oof!"
CD: "Ah, thanks very much..."
I have never installed BSD on either an X86 or Mac based machine. Being relatively new to the world of *nix, is the installer for this new BSD or any other fairly "friendly"?
I have installed Red Hat V4 and up and found them very easy, Slack the same, and Suse could be installed by a one armed, blind, Yak herder with the IQ of your average houseplant. Those installers were all not only easy, but detected most of my hardware on installation except Suse, which didn't use my sound card until I re-built the kernel, NBD.
How is BSD for that? I would like to have a go at it some time, but unfortunately my time for tinkering with new OS's is fairly limited so I prefer the installation to be as painless as I can manage.
Didn't Al Gore invent the Beawulf cluster and the 1.ghz computer?
At the CalTech Center for Advanced Computing Research they are using HP Exemplars in a similar fashion. Though they claim "The HP Exemplar X-Class server installed at CACR, at 256 CPUs and 64GB memory, is the largest cache-coherent shared-memory computer in the world" and I don't _think_ that is true anymore, it is still an impressive piece o' hardware and the work looks mighty cool.
From what I have read on it, they are simulating and databasing the results of particle collider experiments which are planned in a few years. Personally, I like the idea of researchers having the ability to do that kind of stuff on a _simulated_ basis and get most of the bugs worked out ahead of time. If they can do that with success for nuclear testing we may see the end of the need for "test detonations". I'm not some peace love and tofu GreenPeace activist, but I'd rather not irradiate a good portion of the only planet we have in the name or science. Call me wacky.
Hmmm... think they'd let me use it as a Quake3 server?
If Gods were to create the perfect liquid for consumption, it's name would be Guinness. Now, the question does of course beg to be asked, why are you tasting socks?
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And people call ME insane. This dude is a few files short of /
That's one spicey meat-a-ball!
To Thawte or not to Thatwe, that is the question....
How well does it survive decelleration trauma? Say, from a 5 story building. Anyone wanna do the math?
I support the control of the network to the left with me word with you why. It is really unjust that others must load it with the controls of sale, if the Internet companies do not have. This attracts buyers with the Internet Sites in place of memory. Additionally the paying people hunt it with the acquisition of sale in the function everything her life lasting, I do not look up not, why them should be simply different, because she is on the Internet.
Do you waaaaaaant to go back to my place, bouncy bouncy?