I like Fedora a lot (modulo their strong GNOME leanings) however I don't like it for servers. Fedora is released often so you have very current versions of everything, I like this feature on my workstation. But it's not good for servers, Fedora distributions are obsolete if they're >= 2 releases old. That means that, in order to ensure you're going to get security updates you need to upgrade your distribution about once a year. That's a pain for servers, especially ones that are working just fine.
I prefer Debian for servers, even though I'd never consider using it for a desktop distribution.
In the end though, it just depends on what you want to do with Linux, I guess you'd have to say, "use the best distro for the job." Even though that might not sound very satisfactory to someone getting started with Linux.
What I mean by, "I haven't seen a pure Java platform issue in years" was that I haven't seen a cross platform issue with the Java language or runtime in years. I've seen plenty of pure Java platform (J2EE servers) which had problems running supposedly portable J2EE applications.
Sure, you have to test on all the platforms that you support. But, what language/runtime requires less x-platform testing than Java? Today, the real issue is testing on each J2EE app server. That's where the real issues are. I haven't seen a pure Java platform issue in years.
Or, even if it is technically open source, if you use it in any commercial application you have to pay. You're even supposed to pay for each copy of MySQL used by developers of commercial applications on their development machines. That's not the kind of Open Source software I'm interested in.
So I guess you'd also be for "killing" national defense, right? Why shouldn't we let capitalisim take care of that responsibility too? We should also probably have private law enforcement, 'cause that's capitialistic too. We don't need that socialistic national defense and public law enforcement, that's like communisim!
You're drunk on capitialisim, like most of us in the US. Either you're very rich or very young and you don't get that life isn't always a smooth ride for the non-very rich.
Then you either don't have any professional photographers where you're from or you don't know anything about professional photography. Allmost all professional (commerical) photography is done digitally or on transparencies (a.k.a slides)
In the U.S. at least, there are federal (national) and often local (state) incentives in the form of cash rebates for hybrid cars. It's not unconcievable that there'd be incentives for this car as well, since it gets better gas mileage than any hybrid I know of.
We just like big cars, and we'll use any excuse to justify them. Personally, I've been waiting for one of these cars for a long time. Where I live, Boston, they'd be perfect.
oh, then she could just click the update notification icon at button at the screen. Linux is now easier to update than windows, and you ususally don't need to reboot.
If that person is able to answer questions that a non-connected person is unable to answer, there is clearly an information differential between the two. One human is more human, and the other, transhuman.
So, the librairians of Alexandria were "transhuman" because they had access to information (in books) which other people did not have access to? I don't agree. Access to information does not alter one's humanity. Having a cell phone or being able to look up "factoids" does not mean you've become something more than human.
At least it used to be that the Windows JDK was better tuned for performance than even the Solaris JDK, which always seemed a little odd to me.
Recently, we've measured better performance from Linux than the same hardware running NT. Of course, that's our application server and our applications. Not a conclusive benchmark to be sure, but certainly a very large application (12K+ source files, 3.3 million lines of code).
As far as x86 v.s. sparc, how did you arrive at the performance hit conclusion? Are you looking at raw numbers or cost per some performance unit?
I work for a company that produces a J2EE application server and J2EE web applicatons, so I'm pretty much exclusively Java and exclusively Linux. I've been using Java on Linux for work for the last five years.
I turn my amplifier all the way up (or almost), then attinuate the output from the input source. I don't care if background music isn't the highest fidelity my amplifier can produce. I do care that I don't have to go all the way across my house to adjust the volume when it's too loud during dinner.
I don't have a remote! Besides, that doesn't answer my question.
My stereo is in a closet tucked away so I don't have to look at it and I have speakers all around my house. I want to take my computer or wireless Zaurus around with me and control my stereo from it, but not being able to control the volume is a showstopper.
The only thing keeping from buying a Squeezebox is that you can't control the volume from the web UI. What kind of audio interface doesn't let you control volume?
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I used fast judgement to tell me to avoid this book .... If you've read the slashdot blurb, you've pretty much read everything the book has to say.
Ok, which one is it? Did you avoid the book or have you read it?
I like Fedora a lot (modulo their strong GNOME leanings) however I don't like it for servers. Fedora is released often so you have very current versions of everything, I like this feature on my workstation. But it's not good for servers, Fedora distributions are obsolete if they're >= 2 releases old. That means that, in order to ensure you're going to get security updates you need to upgrade your distribution about once a year. That's a pain for servers, especially ones that are working just fine.
I prefer Debian for servers, even though I'd never consider using it for a desktop distribution.
In the end though, it just depends on what you want to do with Linux, I guess you'd have to say, "use the best distro for the job." Even though that might not sound very satisfactory to someone getting started with Linux.
What I mean by, "I haven't seen a pure Java platform issue in years" was that I haven't seen a cross platform issue with the Java language or runtime in years. I've seen plenty of pure Java platform (J2EE servers) which had problems running supposedly portable J2EE applications.
Sure, you have to test on all the platforms that you support. But, what language/runtime requires less x-platform testing than Java? Today, the real issue is testing on each J2EE app server. That's where the real issues are. I haven't seen a pure Java platform issue in years.
Not to mention, MySQL is not Open Source.
Or, even if it is technically open source, if you use it in any commercial application you have to pay. You're even supposed to pay for each copy of MySQL used by developers of commercial applications on their development machines. That's not the kind of Open Source software I'm interested in.
So I guess you'd also be for "killing" national defense, right? Why shouldn't we let capitalisim take care of that responsibility too? We should also probably have private law enforcement, 'cause that's capitialistic too. We don't need that socialistic national defense and public law enforcement, that's like communisim!
You're drunk on capitialisim, like most of us in the US. Either you're very rich or very young and you don't get that life isn't always a smooth ride for the non-very rich.
Then you either don't have any professional photographers where you're from or you don't know anything about professional photography. Allmost all professional (commerical) photography is done digitally or on transparencies (a.k.a slides)
Well, perfect for people who need cars and who also live in the city. I don't have a car myself, when I need one I use ZipCar.
I walk to work now. I used to bike, but I got hit by a car a few years ago, which knocked some sense into me.
In the U.S. at least, there are federal (national) and often local (state) incentives in the form of cash rebates for hybrid cars. It's not unconcievable that there'd be incentives for this car as well, since it gets better gas mileage than any hybrid I know of.
so you should see a dramatic decrease in SUV fatalities
Oh well, it was nice whilel it lasted
We just like big cars, and we'll use any excuse to justify them. Personally, I've been waiting for one of these cars for a long time. Where I live, Boston, they'd be perfect.
Ha! my thoughts exactly
and why does the government get to tax the airwaves?
Because we let them
oh, then she could just click the update notification icon at button at the screen. Linux is now easier to update than windows, and you ususally don't need to reboot.
to update fedora: "yum update"
boy, that was a struggle.
They start voting to have the minority executed.
That is bascially why the founding fathers of the US created a republic.
Isn't establishing an anarchy an oxymoron?
If that person is able to answer questions that a non-connected person is unable to answer, there is clearly an information differential between the two. One human is more human, and the other, transhuman.
So, the librairians of Alexandria were "transhuman" because they had access to information (in books) which other people did not have access to? I don't agree. Access to information does not alter one's humanity. Having a cell phone or being able to look up "factoids" does not mean you've become something more than human.
At least it used to be that the Windows JDK was better tuned for performance than even the Solaris JDK, which always seemed a little odd to me.
Recently, we've measured better performance from Linux than the same hardware running NT. Of course, that's our application server and our applications. Not a conclusive benchmark to be sure, but certainly a very large application (12K+ source files, 3.3 million lines of code).
As far as x86 v.s. sparc, how did you arrive at the performance hit conclusion? Are you looking at raw numbers or cost per some performance unit?
I work for a company that produces a J2EE application server and J2EE web applicatons, so I'm pretty much exclusively Java and exclusively Linux. I've been using Java on Linux for work for the last five years.
Not really, it actually it works very well.
I turn my amplifier all the way up (or almost), then attinuate the output from the input source. I don't care if background music isn't the highest fidelity my amplifier can produce. I do care that I don't have to go all the way across my house to adjust the volume when it's too loud during dinner.
I don't have a remote! Besides, that doesn't answer my question.
My stereo is in a closet tucked away so I don't have to look at it and I have speakers all around my house. I want to take my computer or wireless Zaurus around with me and control my stereo from it, but not being able to control the volume is a showstopper.
The only thing keeping from buying a Squeezebox is that you can't control the volume from the web UI. What kind of audio interface doesn't let you control volume?
"Fan ovens" are called exactly that over here!
I'll bet the average American would pay about twice as much for a "convection" oven than they would for a fan oven. I know I would!