Whenever the topic of municipal fiber to the home comes up, people start complaining that the city is wasting money on something that few people want. So let's make the network customer-owned; the people who want fiber will pay the $2,000 to get hooked up and everyone else won't pay anything. But if only 10% (or less) of people sign up, will the price per customer skyrocket?
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The Pioneer A07 can record DVD-R at 8x, but the Plextor can't.
Oh, that's right. Microsoft has recognized that the educational market can't afford Windows, so they might as well just give it away for free. Too bad Red Hat isn't doing the same thing.
No, I am willing to pay for working software. If it turns out to be broken, then I am OWED a fix. YOU (developer/packager) f*cked up in the first place, so fix your mess. At YOUR cost.
Great. If you pay for RHEL, you get what you want. If you don't pay (e.g. by using Fedora), then you have no right to expect updates.
The problem is that too many/.ers want free ISOs and free updates (for every version) for life.
I have not been able to find an explanation of what a Fedora "release" will be. Will each release break binary compatibility with the previous one, like a jump from RHL 8.0 to RHL 9?
They'll break binary compatibility if the upstream packages do.
Will the releases be more like snapshots, so a completely updated X.1 is identical to X.2?
No. My impression is that updates will only provide bug fixes and new versions will provide new features.
* Renewable Subscriptions -- Customers looking for supported environments or deployments for longer than 1 year should consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Considering that renewing costs the same as buying a new copy, just buy a new copy.
* Hardware and Software Certifications -- Not available with Professional Workstation. For environments where certified hardware and software functionality are key - Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the recommended solution.
Considering that Professional Workstation is identical to RHEL WS, if something is certified on RHEL WS then it will work on Professional Workstation.
EVD is based on the proprietary VP6 codec; there's nothing open about it.
Firmware upgrades aren't gonna happen. A typical DVD player has a hardwired MPEG-2 decoder and a really slow control processor to do the menus. There's no way you could decode HD VP6 on that.
Address space demand grows at about 1 bit per year. Today's biggest computers have 1TB of memory (40 bits), so they'll exhaust 64 bits around 2027. Desktop computers might not need to make the switch until around 2037.
Big corporate IT departments are too dumb for that; they demand to be locked in to one vendor (usually Cisco, because they sell the oldest and most expensive wireless equipment).
You can imagine that there will be third-party non-free yum repositories which follow Fedora Extras policies, even if they're not officially part of Fedora. The important thing IMO is the policies, not the repositories themselves.
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Whenever the topic of municipal fiber to the home comes up, people start complaining that the city is wasting money on something that few people want. So let's make the network customer-owned; the people who want fiber will pay the $2,000 to get hooked up and everyone else won't pay anything. But if only 10% (or less) of people sign up, will the price per customer skyrocket?
The Pioneer A07 can record DVD-R at 8x, but the Plextor can't.
It has nothing to do with analog.
No doubt this app is illegal under the DMCA; good thing the author is not in the USA.
Maybe GNOME is targeting people who want Mac OS but can't afford Mac hardware.
Oh, that's right. Microsoft has recognized that the educational market can't afford Windows, so they might as well just give it away for free. Too bad Red Hat isn't doing the same thing.
Red Hat has no incentive to answer that question.
If they say no, people will hound them about violating the GPL.
If they say yes, people will start passing RHEL ISO images around like crazy and Red Hat will lose money.
$25 a machine/year is more expensive than windows for updates!
How do you figure that? A new version of Windows every three years for ~$150 comes out to more than $25/year.
No, I am willing to pay for working software. If it turns out to be broken, then I am OWED a fix. YOU (developer/packager) f*cked up in the first place, so fix your mess. At YOUR cost.
/.ers want free ISOs and free updates (for every version) for life.
Great. If you pay for RHEL, you get what you want. If you don't pay (e.g. by using Fedora), then you have no right to expect updates.
The problem is that too many
I have not been able to find an explanation of what a Fedora "release" will be. Will each release break binary compatibility with the previous one, like a jump from RHL 8.0 to RHL 9?
They'll break binary compatibility if the upstream packages do.
Will the releases be more like snapshots, so a completely updated X.1 is identical to X.2?
No. My impression is that updates will only provide bug fixes and new versions will provide new features.
* Renewable Subscriptions -- Customers looking for supported environments or deployments for longer than 1 year should consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Considering that renewing costs the same as buying a new copy, just buy a new copy.
* Hardware and Software Certifications -- Not available with Professional Workstation. For environments where certified hardware and software functionality are key - Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the recommended solution.
Considering that Professional Workstation is identical to RHEL WS, if something is certified on RHEL WS then it will work on Professional Workstation.
Yeah, it's sort of funny to see posts to linux-kernel from SGI people complaining about things that break on 512-way machines.
Oddly enough, the video codec used in EVD is owned by an American company.
EVD is based on the proprietary VP6 codec; there's nothing open about it.
Firmware upgrades aren't gonna happen. A typical DVD player has a hardwired MPEG-2 decoder and a really slow control processor to do the menus. There's no way you could decode HD VP6 on that.
Address space demand grows at about 1 bit per year. Today's biggest computers have 1TB of memory (40 bits), so they'll exhaust 64 bits around 2027. Desktop computers might not need to make the switch until around 2037.
If you're not comfortable installing a kernel from BitKeeper, wait for the next Yellow Dog release.
Gee, maybe Gateway will only sell the 32-bit version of SuSE. Duh.
I think you mean "does Intel make decent server hardware?"
Because big routers cost as much as houses?
You mean like Lotus Freelance?
Big corporate IT departments are too dumb for that; they demand to be locked in to one vendor (usually Cisco, because they sell the oldest and most expensive wireless equipment).
But you know you can turn turbo mode off, right?
Nope, it's air-cooled. The CPUs are only 700MHz, so they're probably about 5W each. Dissipating 5kW from ~20U is not a problem.
IBM says this is the same processors that will be in next-gen consoles from Nintendo and Sony that are due out next year
This is not true. BlueGene/L uses custom processors based on the PowerPC 440.
Earlier today BenH released a G5 fan control driver for Linux.
Stuff like Canopy and WiMax seems to work OK in the 5GHz band. And now that there's more spectrum available it can work better.
You can imagine that there will be third-party non-free yum repositories which follow Fedora Extras policies, even if they're not officially part of Fedora. The important thing IMO is the policies, not the repositories themselves.