Survival of the fittest is a concept that helps us understand natural selection and biodiversity. It should not be used as an excuse to shelve public health issues here on earth or in any larger public.
A much better guiding principle would be the Hippocratic oath: do no harm. Especially in space exploration, where we know so little about ramifications. We're still getting this wrong on Earth where we have much better understanding of the ecosystem---GMOs anyone?
I once attempted to back up a Mac to a Windows machine using an AppleTalk stack for W9x. If the Mac put files on the server directory, they remained intact, but if the PC moved them (to tape, for example) the resource forks got trashed. Does anyone know if Netatalk will allow the Unix system to move the files around without clobbering them?
So, all you droolers who want Linux to be happening on PPC, you gotta be aggressive. Email these publishers and hound them for a PPC version. Now we have three distros, Linux is well established on this platform. We have to put on the pressure or we'll fall by the wayside. It's ridiculous that even as Linux presents an alternative to Micosoft, our hardware choices should be limited to what Windows runs on.
After setting up my first PC running Linux, I am all the more thankful about the IRQ crap I didn't have to go through on Apple hardware. Could the coming-of-age of Linux spark a move toward better hardware? Damn straight it could. Big software publishers(even Microsoft) haven't been this malleable and open to change in a long time, let's not drop the ball. Kick butt!
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Survival of the fittest is a concept that helps us understand natural selection and biodiversity. It should not be used as an excuse to shelve public health issues here on earth or in any larger public.
A much better guiding principle would be the Hippocratic oath: do no harm. Especially in space exploration, where we know so little about ramifications. We're still getting this wrong on Earth where we have much better understanding of the ecosystem---GMOs anyone?
I once attempted to back up a Mac to a Windows machine using an AppleTalk stack for W9x. If the Mac put files on the server directory, they remained intact, but if the PC moved them (to tape, for example) the resource forks got trashed. Does anyone know if Netatalk will allow the Unix system to move the files around without clobbering them?
Jason
So, all you droolers who want Linux to be happening on PPC, you gotta be aggressive. Email these publishers and hound them for a PPC version. Now we have three distros, Linux is well established on this platform. We have to put on the pressure or we'll fall by the wayside. It's ridiculous that even as Linux presents an alternative to Micosoft, our hardware choices should be limited to what Windows runs on.
After setting up my first PC running Linux, I am all the more thankful about the IRQ crap I didn't have to go through on Apple hardware. Could the coming-of-age of Linux spark a move toward better hardware? Damn straight it could. Big software publishers(even Microsoft) haven't been this malleable and open to change in a long time, let's not drop the ball. Kick butt!
No clones for now, but they'll be back. I think that decision was financial triage.