Oh, absolutely. Unfortunately, high end is very high end indeed, which means newer, smaller companies will never even get exposed to Solaris cause they can't afford the support contracts that Oracle would demand from them.
Combine that with OpenSolaris now basically abandonware, and IMO Solaris has lost a catastrophic amount of mindshare. It's now basically equivalent to z/OS or Cobol. Only understood, or even cared about, by people who are already working with it.
Solaris is dead at this point. OpenIndiana/Illumos hasn't been updated in +-2 years, and isn't even capable of booting anymore on current generation hardware. You may have better luck using one of the derivative projects that are based on Illumos, but then you have to worry about compatibility.
If you don't use ubuntu, then your best bet is to use FreeBSD. (I'm currently using FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD. The UI could really use an overhaul, but the underlying system is solid.
I know this is probably too much to ask, but I am really hoping that people who have poked at it can give constructive, practical comments on what they think of the new version. I haven't been paying attention cause I'm too busy. I'm looking forward to zfs-on-linux, but this is the first time I've ever heard of this new snap package system. Is it any good? Any gotchas?
Have there been any notable improvements? Anything you can do now that you couldn't before (eg: is it easier to manage multiple displays, or digital audio) ?
But I expect the forum will just be drowned in a bajillion posts about how systemd sucks, pulseaudio sucks, shuttleworth sucks, unity sucks, etc.
I may be asking too much here, but I would love to know what people think of 16.04 from a real-world, practical perspective. What can you do with it that you couldn't with previous versions? What, in your opinion, has improved? Any issues? For example, I haven't been keeping a close eye, so this is the first time I've heard of this new snap system. Is it any good?
But I suspect the forum will just be filled with the usual "systemd sux!" and "pulseaudio sux" and "I can't stand Unity, and Shuttleworth is an asshole, use linux mint or instead!"
But here's hoping for a civil discussion for once.
All joking aside, is Rust really that compelling of a language? I haven't actually used it, so I'm wondering if it lives up to all the hype it's generating.
On behalf of everyone who has ever set foot in a Library, or tried to obtain a book but was no longer in print, and the publisher won't make it available in any format whatsoever, I say...
So streaming has caught on and people are liking it. It's making money. That means it's now the perfect time to start balkanizing the industry with exclusives to specific services, raise prices, and strangle it before it gets any bigger.
I mean, if the music industry is doing well, they won't be able to bitch and moan and lobby gov't to impose more and more draconic legislation to combat piracy.
You are absolutely correct, however, I (if it wasn't clear) was talking about *today*, not 30 years ago. In the early days of computers, *everybody* went their own way, because there was no established path to take. Now that time has passed and the dust has settled, we're basically down to two camps: Windows, and everybody else.
Windows has a very very long history behind it, and forces a bajillion compromises when a new version comes out. It also makes Apple's move to OSX that much more interesting, cause they basically said "screw this" and dropped their entire previous operating system and put out a BSD based one, with an emulator on top to handle old apps.
For the longest time, I had wished that Microsoft would do the same thing... put out a clean, new, cruft-free OS, with an emulator to handle the older stuff and provide people with a transition point. I've given up wishing.
Once in a while I make the mistake of browsing the app categories, just to see what's available.
I end up getting inundated with applications that all start with **11111AA, so that it appears at the top of the list, and you have to scroll pages and pages of apps before you hit something that isn't remotely junk. I don't even bother browsing anymore cause it's just a waste of time. I don't need to see 500 AAAAAAAAUseYourPhoneAsToiletPaper apps.
My immediate reaction is, "No, as a company they should not try to interfere in the political process."
However, there are so many *other* companies that are already doing just that, going so far as to crease fabricated 'grassroots' organizations to push specific candidates, that I want to say, "You know what? Screw it. Go ahead. At least you're being honest about it."
The single biggest reason I don't go to theatres anymore is because the other movie goers drive me nuts. Between talking, texting, getting up to pee (requiring everyone to shuffle and shimmy to make room for the person to get out) or bringing a baby that then starts wailing half way through the movie, etc, it's just not worth the constantly rising ticket price.
Maybe if theatre chains were more like the Alamo Drafthouse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs), overall ticket sales would be much higher.
It's not just the fact that Mac has a bash shell, although that's a major component.
A Mac, out of the box, can interact with any operating system seamlessly, using the exact same toolset, whether it's Redhat, Ubuntu, AIX, Solaris, or Free/Open/NetBSD. I'm sure it could probably interact with mainframes as well, but I've never personally tried so I can't say for sure. With windows, you are unable to do a single blessed thing until you start downloading and installing craptons of 3rd party utilities to do anything. I mean, it *still* doesn't have an built in SSH client? Really?
You also have to constantly worry about various conversions such as CRLF, file system path nmemonics, etc. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone try to scratch their heads in confusion because they forgot their config file had something like 'C:\blahblah", as the log directory path, for example. It's all stuff that tends to get really old, really fast. Windows is the only operating system on the planet that insisted on going it's own way for basic OS fundamentals, making it fundamentally incompatible with literally else out there.
And then Mac is *still* able to interoperate with the Windows world. You can freely interact with SMB shares, bind your workstation to Active Directory, run Microsoft Office, etc etc.
IMO, a Mac is currently the most flexible, cross-platform development and system administration platform available. Course, if you're a gamer then it blows 500 rotting donkey penises per square inch, but really it all boils down to "Best tool for the job".
I am in this position right now. I don't want an iMac, but their current Mac Mini lineup is... well... garbage.
So I said "Hell with it" and took a decently spec'ed PC, and turned it into a hackintosh. I had spend a little time doing some tweaks, bluetooth and audio is slightly quirky, but beyond that it runs perfectly fine for my needs.
I really hope Apple doesn't let their entire desktop line slide downhill even further, but I'm not holding my breath. They don't seem to understand that there is a class of people in between "several thousand dollar xeon touting behemoth" and "anemic desktop that lets me facebook like you wouldn't believe".
I swear, Apple needs to be banned from making peripherals. Their keyboards, up until the most recent aluminum ones, required the user to take piano lessons to build up the finger strength necessary to push the damn keys. They couldn't make an even remotely ergonomic mouse to save their lives.
And now they're making keyboards with no keys? Do they not care how jarring it will be to people's fingers, when they are hammering away on a solid surface?
It's one thing to use a touchpad where you are alternating between gliding and tapping. It's another thing entirely when you are tapping constantly.
I can only assume that they've struck some kind of backroom kickback deal with Kinesis, for all the custom that is going to be flooding their way when people start suffering RSI en masse.
The point the GP is trying to make is that this opens the door to vendors requiring an active internet connection to their servers just to be able to configure (or possibly even just use) your widget. If anything happens to that company, you could lose meaningful use of said widget.
We already have stuff like this. Look at the Logitech Harmony Remote. You have to connect to their online service to be able to configure your remote. If their service ever died, you lose the ability to configure your remote. (I'm having to go by memory... I used to own one but I can't remember what I did with it)
As much as I hate Microsoft, this is absolutely fantastic news.
I really wanted to learn Xamarin, but their pricing started at ouchy, and then went batshit ludicrous. (Their 'free' offering was such a joke that I pretend it doesn't even exist).
All the major cross-platform game engines have gone the 'pay us when you make some money' route, but the major application toolkits like Xamarin and QT refused to let go of their expensive subscription models. That means you couldn't just dabble and see what happens, cause if you so much as entertained the notion of putting your application up on an app store (even if it was free), you were required to pay out hefty sums on a monthly basis.
This is a move I've been really hoping someone would make, because now I have a no-risk way to do fully cross-platform development (ie: mobile *and* desktop, not just multiple mobile platforms). WXWidgets appears to have stalled. ObjectPascal/Lazarus looks amazing, but very rough. Phonegap is slick, but it doesn't even try to target desktop.
Meanwhile, writing in good old-fashioned C++ would still require me to learn the boilerplate code for every platform I would want to target.
And now, for the first time ever I have a very compelling reason to learn C#.
IMO, installation isn't a problem. Current versions of Linux are dead-easy to install now-a-days.
Now, configuring them AFTER installation, that's a whole other mess entirely. I mean, hell, Linux *still* doesn't reliably handle things like suspend/resume. And heaven forbid you need to configure anything that's more complicated than the basic settings you're presented with. You may as well just switch to gentoo at that point, cause you're going to have to get familiar with config files 'n whatnot.
That's why I went to Mac. It's basically linux without the bullshit. Having Ubuntu integrated into Windows 10 may well be a game-changer (provided MS knocks it off with the privacy invasion).
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Oh, absolutely. Unfortunately, high end is very high end indeed, which means newer, smaller companies will never even get exposed to Solaris cause they can't afford the support contracts that Oracle would demand from them.
Combine that with OpenSolaris now basically abandonware, and IMO Solaris has lost a catastrophic amount of mindshare. It's now basically equivalent to z/OS or Cobol. Only understood, or even cared about, by people who are already working with it.
Solaris is dead at this point. OpenIndiana/Illumos hasn't been updated in +-2 years, and isn't even capable of booting anymore on current generation hardware. You may have better luck using one of the derivative projects that are based on Illumos, but then you have to worry about compatibility.
If you don't use ubuntu, then your best bet is to use FreeBSD. (I'm currently using FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD. The UI could really use an overhaul, but the underlying system is solid.
Why would an average user even have to? An average user wouldn't be able to fix an old style init file either.
Me too. I never understood the vitriolic hate towards systemd. It's infinitely cleaner and more powerful than the mishmash of init shell scripts.
Sorry, I rewrote the post cause I thought Slashdot glitched and lost the previous one.
I know this is probably too much to ask, but I am really hoping that people who have poked at it can give constructive, practical comments on what they think of the new version. I haven't been paying attention cause I'm too busy. I'm looking forward to zfs-on-linux, but this is the first time I've ever heard of this new snap package system. Is it any good? Any gotchas?
Have there been any notable improvements? Anything you can do now that you couldn't before (eg: is it easier to manage multiple displays, or digital audio) ?
But I expect the forum will just be drowned in a bajillion posts about how systemd sucks, pulseaudio sucks, shuttleworth sucks, unity sucks, etc.
I may be asking too much here, but I would love to know what people think of 16.04 from a real-world, practical perspective. What can you do with it that you couldn't with previous versions? What, in your opinion, has improved? Any issues? For example, I haven't been keeping a close eye, so this is the first time I've heard of this new snap system. Is it any good?
But I suspect the forum will just be filled with the usual "systemd sux!" and "pulseaudio sux" and "I can't stand Unity, and Shuttleworth is an asshole, use linux mint or instead!"
But here's hoping for a civil discussion for once.
All joking aside, is Rust really that compelling of a language? I haven't actually used it, so I'm wondering if it lives up to all the hype it's generating.
Whoa, you mean the creationists were right?
On behalf of everyone who has ever set foot in a Library, or tried to obtain a book but was no longer in print, and the publisher won't make it available in any format whatsoever, I say...
Go fuck yourself.
So streaming has caught on and people are liking it. It's making money. That means it's now the perfect time to start balkanizing the industry with exclusives to specific services, raise prices, and strangle it before it gets any bigger.
I mean, if the music industry is doing well, they won't be able to bitch and moan and lobby gov't to impose more and more draconic legislation to combat piracy.
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You are absolutely correct, however, I (if it wasn't clear) was talking about *today*, not 30 years ago. In the early days of computers, *everybody* went their own way, because there was no established path to take. Now that time has passed and the dust has settled, we're basically down to two camps: Windows, and everybody else.
Windows has a very very long history behind it, and forces a bajillion compromises when a new version comes out. It also makes Apple's move to OSX that much more interesting, cause they basically said "screw this" and dropped their entire previous operating system and put out a BSD based one, with an emulator on top to handle old apps.
For the longest time, I had wished that Microsoft would do the same thing... put out a clean, new, cruft-free OS, with an emulator to handle the older stuff and provide people with a transition point. I've given up wishing.
Once in a while I make the mistake of browsing the app categories, just to see what's available.
I end up getting inundated with applications that all start with **11111AA, so that it appears at the top of the list, and you have to scroll pages and pages of apps before you hit something that isn't remotely junk. I don't even bother browsing anymore cause it's just a waste of time. I don't need to see 500 AAAAAAAAUseYourPhoneAsToiletPaper apps.
My immediate reaction is, "No, as a company they should not try to interfere in the political process."
However, there are so many *other* companies that are already doing just that, going so far as to crease fabricated 'grassroots' organizations to push specific candidates, that I want to say, "You know what? Screw it. Go ahead. At least you're being honest about it."
The single biggest reason I don't go to theatres anymore is because the other movie goers drive me nuts. Between talking, texting, getting up to pee (requiring everyone to shuffle and shimmy to make room for the person to get out) or bringing a baby that then starts wailing half way through the movie, etc, it's just not worth the constantly rising ticket price.
Maybe if theatre chains were more like the Alamo Drafthouse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs), overall ticket sales would be much higher.
It's not just the fact that Mac has a bash shell, although that's a major component.
A Mac, out of the box, can interact with any operating system seamlessly, using the exact same toolset, whether it's Redhat, Ubuntu, AIX, Solaris, or Free/Open/NetBSD. I'm sure it could probably interact with mainframes as well, but I've never personally tried so I can't say for sure. With windows, you are unable to do a single blessed thing until you start downloading and installing craptons of 3rd party utilities to do anything. I mean, it *still* doesn't have an built in SSH client? Really?
You also have to constantly worry about various conversions such as CRLF, file system path nmemonics, etc. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone try to scratch their heads in confusion because they forgot their config file had something like 'C:\blahblah", as the log directory path, for example. It's all stuff that tends to get really old, really fast. Windows is the only operating system on the planet that insisted on going it's own way for basic OS fundamentals, making it fundamentally incompatible with literally else out there.
And then Mac is *still* able to interoperate with the Windows world. You can freely interact with SMB shares, bind your workstation to Active Directory, run Microsoft Office, etc etc.
IMO, a Mac is currently the most flexible, cross-platform development and system administration platform available. Course, if you're a gamer then it blows 500 rotting donkey penises per square inch, but really it all boils down to "Best tool for the job".
I am in this position right now. I don't want an iMac, but their current Mac Mini lineup is... well... garbage.
So I said "Hell with it" and took a decently spec'ed PC, and turned it into a hackintosh. I had spend a little time doing some tweaks, bluetooth and audio is slightly quirky, but beyond that it runs perfectly fine for my needs.
I really hope Apple doesn't let their entire desktop line slide downhill even further, but I'm not holding my breath. They don't seem to understand that there is a class of people in between "several thousand dollar xeon touting behemoth" and "anemic desktop that lets me facebook like you wouldn't believe".
It isn't even widely adopted yet, and it's already causing a massive clusterfuck.
Why did they have to make the standard so stupidly complicated? What were they thinking?
I swear, Apple needs to be banned from making peripherals. Their keyboards, up until the most recent aluminum ones, required the user to take piano lessons to build up the finger strength necessary to push the damn keys. They couldn't make an even remotely ergonomic mouse to save their lives.
And now they're making keyboards with no keys? Do they not care how jarring it will be to people's fingers, when they are hammering away on a solid surface?
It's one thing to use a touchpad where you are alternating between gliding and tapping. It's another thing entirely when you are tapping constantly.
I can only assume that they've struck some kind of backroom kickback deal with Kinesis, for all the custom that is going to be flooding their way when people start suffering RSI en masse.
The point the GP is trying to make is that this opens the door to vendors requiring an active internet connection to their servers just to be able to configure (or possibly even just use) your widget. If anything happens to that company, you could lose meaningful use of said widget.
We already have stuff like this. Look at the Logitech Harmony Remote. You have to connect to their online service to be able to configure your remote. If their service ever died, you lose the ability to configure your remote. (I'm having to go by memory... I used to own one but I can't remember what I did with it)
I can't think of a better possible use of the phrase "And nothing of value was lost".
As much as I hate Microsoft, this is absolutely fantastic news.
I really wanted to learn Xamarin, but their pricing started at ouchy, and then went batshit ludicrous. (Their 'free' offering was such a joke that I pretend it doesn't even exist).
All the major cross-platform game engines have gone the 'pay us when you make some money' route, but the major application toolkits like Xamarin and QT refused to let go of their expensive subscription models. That means you couldn't just dabble and see what happens, cause if you so much as entertained the notion of putting your application up on an app store (even if it was free), you were required to pay out hefty sums on a monthly basis.
This is a move I've been really hoping someone would make, because now I have a no-risk way to do fully cross-platform development (ie: mobile *and* desktop, not just multiple mobile platforms). WXWidgets appears to have stalled. ObjectPascal/Lazarus looks amazing, but very rough. Phonegap is slick, but it doesn't even try to target desktop.
Meanwhile, writing in good old-fashioned C++ would still require me to learn the boilerplate code for every platform I would want to target.
And now, for the first time ever I have a very compelling reason to learn C#.
Well played, Microsoft. Well played.
Unless you installed Windows 10 Enterprise, it is not possible to disable all the telemetry. Is that what you installed?
IMO, installation isn't a problem. Current versions of Linux are dead-easy to install now-a-days.
Now, configuring them AFTER installation, that's a whole other mess entirely. I mean, hell, Linux *still* doesn't reliably handle things like suspend/resume. And heaven forbid you need to configure anything that's more complicated than the basic settings you're presented with. You may as well just switch to gentoo at that point, cause you're going to have to get familiar with config files 'n whatnot.
That's why I went to Mac. It's basically linux without the bullshit. Having Ubuntu integrated into Windows 10 may well be a game-changer (provided MS knocks it off with the privacy invasion).