True, but IIRC NP is responsible for adding it to both OSes, so presumably the fact that it went into NetBSD had more to do with logistics than anything else.
It's interesting to hear about the challenges they faced in calibrating monitors etc., but clearly the performance advantage comes from current PC hardware being faster than their old SGIs, not linux being faster than irix on equivalent hardware.
You didn't get kernel source to SunOS4.X, you got the source to a paramater file so you could tune things. You got to compile that. SunOS5.X tunes most things itself, and your interface to tunable paramaters are things like/etc/system and ndd instead of things like vi and cc.
Any company running a 'Clean Room' must also prevent its employees from looking at GPL code - once you peek at it, you should be careful about "appropriating" the ideas of a GPL developer in your company's proprietary code.
If you change the Solaris source, you give it back to Sun to do what they want with it. You're happy for them to be able to do this, because you read and accepted the conditions of access before you worked on the source code.
Linux has become the lowest common denominator unix-like OS - it is very far from being the superior unix OS
I'd be fascianted to read about the problems the google team has had to overcome in managing a their thousands of boxes - perhaps an ask slashdot article?
> There are times when I do wind up working from home [...] >My theory is that it's because I don't get asked questions or I'm not hearing other's conversations over the cubicle walls
Unfortunately, we're nearly always limited to a choice between working in an open-plan (cubicled) office space, or working from home. Many people have trouble working in open plan offices due, as you point out to noise, interruptions, etc. etc. On the other hand, many of the same people also have problems working from home due to home noises, and home interruptions, plus the isolation etc.
My preferred solution would be to work in the central office, but in a central office that was divided into small (say 4-person) rooms/offices, offering the benefits of peace and quiet, while still offering the benefits of ease of communication with coworkers and management.
I've experienced this mode of work, and it's been my favourite working environment - I shared an office with the other 2 members of the unix admin team, and the support team were in another office down the hall, with shared printer area, canteen, etc. where we'd generally meet up at various times during the day. This, for me at least, was an ideal compromise between cubicleland and isolation. I wish more companies realised this happy medium existed!
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Personally, I would be very reluctant to hire someone for anything other than a basic unix admin job unless they had multiplatform experience - anyone who hasn't adminned more than one is going to have a hard time identifying when to use OS F v OS S v OS L, etc. Even for junior folks, if they haven't taken advantage of the multitude of freely available unixes out there, why should I believe them when they claim to be OS-agnostic? Anyone who claims "FooOS fits my needs, so I don't waste my time with anything else" is no good to me.
So, it's kinda like Digital's FX!32, but translating to their VLIW instead of alpha, and implemented at a much lower level, combined with the sort of power management that you have in a palmpilot?
Agree. Ideally, I'd like to see companies renting the home office space from the employee, at whatever the going rate is (i.e. if my employer has a city center office, they can save money by paying a reduced rent on my suburbian office space).
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I've been greatly pleased that, for once, media hype has worked in favour of the ordinary sysadmin. Avoiding Y2K problems, for people maintaining typical business systems (i.e. anything that isn't an embedded controller) is no different from avoiding viruses or device dirver bugs - it amounts to "apply the latest patches/updates, and reboot if necessary."
Can you imagine a company paying someone a bonus to come in on a Thursday 12th and stay past midnight to ensure a 'Friday the 13th' virus doesn't damage systems?
"Maybe I'm bitching a little here, but it doesn't sit right with me that in a community that is so, well, community-oriented, a small number of people get zeroed in on and quoted/printed like they were the second coming."
That's why he's an IPO multimillionaire, and you're not.
It's not clear whether you intend this to be a linux-only deal, or whether any free software related people can be nominated. For instance, is 'best kernel module' supposed to be 'best linux kernel module' or what?
>It's kind of cool, when you think about it. In a system where the economics of scarcity are non-existant (the marginal cost of copying software is trivial), communism actually seems to work, and works without using force or coercion on anyone who takes part in it.
This concept is also present in Ian M. Banks's Culture novels
If you haven't bothered to read the findings of fact, this might influence you. If you have read them, you'll know that the relevant market has been defined as "Desktop Personal Computers" i.e. servers have been excluded.
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Solaris sells the hardware. People don't buy Sun servers to run linux on them.
True, but IIRC NP is responsible for adding it to both OSes, so presumably the fact that it went into NetBSD had more to do with logistics than anything else.
http://www.inforeading.com/archive/text_files/ham_ radio/rabbit.txt
It's interesting to hear about the challenges they faced in calibrating monitors etc., but clearly the performance advantage comes from current PC hardware being faster than their old SGIs, not linux being faster than irix on equivalent hardware.
Making something GPL doesn't make it a part of the GNU project.
Although one might be forgiven for thinking RMS believes that it does.
http://software.libertine.org/tmda/
> Whatever happened to offices?
Somebody figured out it was cheaper not to have them.
It's not a question of knowing too much about the subject material, it's a question of knowing too little about imparting that material to others.
...IE5.5 under NT under VMware
You didn't get kernel source to SunOS4.X, you got the source to a paramater file so you could tune things. You got to compile that. SunOS5.X tunes most things itself, and your interface to tunable paramaters are things like /etc/system and ndd instead of things like vi and cc.
Any company running a 'Clean Room' must also prevent its employees from looking at GPL code - once you peek at it, you should be careful about "appropriating" the ideas of a GPL developer in your company's proprietary code.
If you change the Solaris source, you give it back to Sun to do what they want with it. You're happy for them to be able to do this, because you read and accepted the conditions of access before you worked on the source code.
Linux has become the lowest common denominator unix-like OS - it is very far from being the superior unix OS
I'd be fascianted to read about the problems the google team has had to overcome in managing a their thousands of boxes - perhaps an ask slashdot article?
> There are times when I do wind up working from home
[...]
>My theory is that it's because I don't get asked questions or I'm not hearing other's conversations over the cubicle walls
Unfortunately, we're nearly always limited to a choice between working in an open-plan (cubicled) office space, or working from home. Many people have trouble working in open plan offices due, as you point out to noise, interruptions, etc. etc. On the other hand, many of the same people also have problems working from home due to home noises, and home interruptions, plus the isolation etc.
My preferred solution would be to work in the central office, but in a central office that was divided into small (say 4-person) rooms/offices, offering the benefits of peace and quiet, while still offering the benefits of ease of communication with coworkers and management.
I've experienced this mode of work, and it's been my favourite working environment - I shared an office with the other 2 members of the unix admin team, and the support team were in another office down the hall, with shared printer area, canteen, etc. where we'd generally meet up at various times during the day. This, for me at least, was an ideal compromise between cubicleland and isolation. I wish more companies realised this happy medium existed!
Personally, I would be very reluctant to hire someone for anything other than a basic unix admin job unless they had multiplatform experience - anyone who hasn't adminned more than one is going to have a hard time identifying when to use OS F v OS S v OS L, etc. Even for junior folks, if they haven't taken advantage of the multitude of freely available unixes out there, why should I believe them when they claim to be OS-agnostic? Anyone who claims "FooOS fits my needs, so I don't waste my time with anything else" is no good to me.
IDE is to SCSI as Winmodems are to real modems.
So, it's kinda like Digital's FX!32, but translating to their VLIW instead of alpha, and implemented at a much lower level, combined with the sort of power management that you have in a palmpilot?
Agree. Ideally, I'd like to see companies renting the home office space from the employee, at whatever the going rate is (i.e. if my employer has a city center office, they can save money by paying a reduced rent on my suburbian office space).
I've been greatly pleased that, for once, media hype has worked in favour of the ordinary sysadmin. Avoiding Y2K problems, for people maintaining typical business systems (i.e. anything that isn't an embedded controller) is no different from avoiding viruses or device dirver bugs - it amounts to "apply the latest patches/updates, and reboot if necessary."
Can you imagine a company paying someone a bonus to come in on a Thursday 12th and stay past midnight to ensure a 'Friday the 13th' virus doesn't damage systems?
"Maybe I'm bitching a little here, but it doesn't sit right with me that in a community that is so, well, community-oriented, a small number of people get zeroed in on and quoted/printed like they were the second coming."
That's why he's an IPO multimillionaire, and you're not.
It's not clear whether you intend this to be a linux-only deal, or whether any free software related people can be nominated. For instance, is 'best kernel module' supposed to be 'best linux kernel module' or what?
I've noticed netscape is a lot more stable if you disable its disk cache (set to 0 in prefernces).
You should also try PuTTY.
...try Strip
>It's kind of cool, when you think about it. In a system where the economics of scarcity are non-existant (the marginal cost of copying software is trivial), communism actually seems to work, and works without using force or coercion on anyone who takes part in it.
This concept is also present in Ian M. Banks's Culture novels
If you haven't bothered to read the findings of fact, this might influence you. If you have read them, you'll know that the relevant market has been defined as "Desktop Personal Computers" i.e. servers have been excluded.
> What exactly are you supposed to do with a kernel core dump under a closed source OS?
Figure out what application was running when your system hung, tell your support provider, and get them to fix it.