oracle's completely useless "Oracle Documentation" page which seems to be almost entirely about the database.
That's funny I see these links along the right edge of the page:
Berkeley DB Enterprise Manager Database EE and XE Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Fusion Middleware Java EE & GlassFish Java SE JDeveloper and ADF MySQL NetBeans IDE Pre-built Developer VMs Solaris 10 & 11 Express SQL Developer VM VirtualBox Zend Server for PHP
I can still find and download the manuals for ALL of my old Sun gear (well except for my old 3/60)
There are many streets in Medford that are "unplowable" due to the deplorable condition of the asphalt. Tough luck to you if you live on one of those streets.
VMS is still very much alive and kicking. It is running on modern Itanium hardware, it is still fully supported by HP, and will continue to be supported for many years to come.
It has support for IPv6, and it's as elegant (and inscrutable) as ever.
You can even get personal use licenses for free if you have the hardware to run it.
Various articles I've read indicate that the kernels in the various distributions are very very close in performance, so you must be speaking of user land.
Well then your problem is that one can strip away as much as you want with many distributions. For example with Fedora you can do a minimal text install that boots up almost instantly. Or you can install as much or as little as you want and your startup time will increase accordingly.
more stable
When you have a situation like OLPC, the developers are tweaking the kernel hard for the particular hardware and it is going to be rock solid. I would expect OLPC to be as robust as any approved RHEL or SLES installation.
The only post format chore I have to do
Again with a distribution tailored to the hardware, you don't have to do any of this kind of stuff at all.
Perhaps you might want to try installing a stripped-down linux distribution on a geode or arm based router.
Then you can customize it any way you want, and as a bonus you will probably be immune to those router attacks out there.
If you want the "simple box" experience, install webmin. You can do all the routine sys admin tasks with it and you don't have to go near a command line.
What is wrong with multiple IP addresses? If you set up your routing correctly, you can assign local IPv6 addresses to all your machines, so they can talk to each other regardless of your IPv6 connectivity to the Internet. You can then add the global IPv6 subnet handed to you by your provider and assign those also. This setup is nice because you can enable and disable your IPv6 connectivity, and even change providers and global IPv6 addresses, without interfering with your local addresses.
Being able to assign multple IP addresses is a nice feature and you should take advantage of it, not shy away from it. With just a little bit of smarts you can use DHCPv6, run your own DNS server, and you don't have to deal with those pesky IPv6 literal addresses at all.
Just take a look at the hair-pulling in mixed IPv4 and 6 networks with things like Windows Server.
I've set up IPv6 on Windows Server and it is quite simple.
Windows Server is actually the simplest operating system for IPv6. Really it just works. With RHEL and SUSE and Solaris you have to enable it and tweak some text files, but Windows Server is ready to go right out of the box. With DHCPv6 you can be up and running in literally seconds.
"the drastically decreasing numbers of people who actually create stuff on a computer. "
What the heck are you talking about?
People use computers more than ever to compose music, to write papers, to edit photography.
"You can't create anything on your smartphone except raw pictures and video"
Yes and when they get home to their real computer, they use IT to edit their raw pictures and video into a finished presentation. What else do people do with their "raw pictures and video"?
Maybe you are talking about software developers? But the number of developers is growing rapidly also! Along with the number of languages and applications.
CentOS is a server platform. You run databases and web servers on it. Don't put it on your desktop, that's not what it's for. The lack of desktop support is intentional, it allows them to focus on server performance and quality. My CentOS machines have less than 800 packages installed and they still feel bloated
Maybe you can run it on a desktop if you load it up with EPEL and rpmfusion, but at that point you are probably better off with something else.
with the ad-hominem "this is going to kill java" stuff.
Oracle has said openly that there will always be a free JDK available from them. We also have IcedTea which is not going to go away.
Oracle is going to sell and support an enterprise version to their enterprise customers, with enterprise features. Stuff that you probably don't use on your desktop or even your small server. Stuff like infiniband support and enterprise message queueing. If you need this kind of stuff, you are either already an Oracle customer or a potential Oracle customer. Otherwise you will be perfectly happy with the free JDK and nothing is going to change in that department.
So cut it out with the cringing and moaning, it's pointless.
Instead of doing it over and over again on the fly, why not just do it once and shoot the "fixed" html back to the authors, and firmly insist that they update their pages? This seems like a much better way to accomplish the same thing.
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oracle's completely useless "Oracle Documentation" page which seems to be almost entirely about the database.
That's funny I see these links along the right edge of the page:
Berkeley DB
Enterprise Manager
Database EE and XE
Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
Fusion Middleware
Java EE & GlassFish
Java SE
JDeveloper and ADF
MySQL
NetBeans IDE
Pre-built Developer VMs
Solaris 10 & 11 Express
SQL Developer
VM VirtualBox
Zend Server for PHP
I can still find and download the manuals for ALL of my old Sun gear (well except for my old 3/60)
The potholes don't slow them down at all. Ever wonder why so many boston cars have dents? Its because they are swerving to avoid potholes.
There are many streets in Medford that are "unplowable" due to the deplorable condition of the asphalt. Tough luck to you if you live on one of those streets.
VMS which was truly elegant
VMS is still very much alive and kicking. It is running on modern Itanium hardware, it is still fully supported by HP, and will continue to be supported for many years to come.
It has support for IPv6, and it's as elegant (and inscrutable) as ever.
You can even get personal use licenses for free if you have the hardware to run it.
Innovative product for 2010?
This technology has been under development at the MIT Media lab for many years.
You are giving Microsoft credit for very little. It was designed in Cambridge and manufactured in China. What did Redmond add to it?
It's faster
Various articles I've read indicate that the kernels in the various distributions are very very close in performance, so you must be speaking of user land.
Well then your problem is that one can strip away as much as you want with many distributions. For example with Fedora you can do a minimal text install that boots up almost instantly. Or you can install as much or as little as you want and your startup time will increase accordingly.
more stable
When you have a situation like OLPC, the developers are tweaking the kernel hard for the particular hardware and it is going to be rock solid. I would expect OLPC to be as robust as any approved RHEL or SLES installation.
The only post format chore I have to do
Again with a distribution tailored to the hardware, you don't have to do any of this kind of stuff at all.
Perhaps you might want to try installing a stripped-down linux distribution on a geode or arm based router.
Then you can customize it any way you want, and as a bonus you will probably be immune to those router attacks out there.
If you want the "simple box" experience, install webmin. You can do all the routine sys admin tasks with it and you don't have to go near a command line.
What is wrong with multiple IP addresses? If you set up your routing correctly, you can assign local IPv6 addresses to all your machines, so they can talk to each other regardless of your IPv6 connectivity to the Internet. You can then add the global IPv6 subnet handed to you by your provider and assign those also. This setup is nice because you can enable and disable your IPv6 connectivity, and even change providers and global IPv6 addresses, without interfering with your local addresses.
Being able to assign multple IP addresses is a nice feature and you should take advantage of it, not shy away from it. With just a little bit of smarts you can use DHCPv6, run your own DNS server, and you don't have to deal with those pesky IPv6 literal addresses at all.
Hey good job with your selective editing.
You say "car" and then you give three examples of tiny tin boxes.
Why don't you show us an example with a Chevy Cobalt or a Honda Fit?
Just take a look at the hair-pulling in mixed IPv4 and 6 networks with things like Windows Server.
I've set up IPv6 on Windows Server and it is quite simple.
Windows Server is actually the simplest operating system for IPv6. Really it just works. With RHEL and SUSE and Solaris you have to enable it and tweak some text files, but Windows Server is ready to go right out of the box. With DHCPv6 you can be up and running in literally seconds.
"the drastically decreasing numbers of people who actually create stuff on a computer. "
What the heck are you talking about?
People use computers more than ever to compose music, to write papers, to edit photography.
"You can't create anything on your smartphone except raw pictures and video"
Yes and when they get home to their real computer, they use IT to edit their raw pictures and video into a finished presentation. What else do people do with their "raw pictures and video"?
Maybe you are talking about software developers? But the number of developers is growing rapidly also! Along with the number of languages and applications.
So really what the heck ARE you talking about?
What are you talking about? Do YOU even know what it is?
Remote rendering in X is here NOW and has been for 20+ years!!!
Hello! Just set the DISPLAY environment variable.
Well that is your problem. You don't "use" AIX, you install your server applications on it and you leave it alone.
In your house, maybe.
In the server room, PowerPC is still very popular. In fact it's the only choice if you want the best straight-up single core performance.
"any reasonable server OS is fully portable" That's not true because AIX is a perfectly reasonable server OS and it's only on PowerPC.
How long before there is a new Oracle Linux based on RHEL6?
Laugh all you want, but their kernel is much more stable and solid than RHEL, and has better network performance too.
CentOS is a server platform. You run databases and web servers on it. Don't put it on your desktop, that's not what it's for. The lack of desktop support is intentional, it allows them to focus on server performance and quality. My CentOS machines have less than 800 packages installed and they still feel bloated
Maybe you can run it on a desktop if you load it up with EPEL and rpmfusion, but at that point you are probably better off with something else.
It's just like fortune cookies.
Append "in bed" and you get a laugh.
Append "with a computer" and you get a software patent.
Don't forget that you actually have to call the constructors, too.
with the ad-hominem "this is going to kill java" stuff.
Oracle has said openly that there will always be a free JDK available from them. We also have IcedTea which is not going to go away.
Oracle is going to sell and support an enterprise version to their enterprise customers, with enterprise features. Stuff that you probably don't use on your desktop or even your small server. Stuff like infiniband support and enterprise message queueing. If you need this kind of stuff, you are either already an Oracle customer or a potential Oracle customer. Otherwise you will be perfectly happy with the free JDK and nothing is going to change in that department.
So cut it out with the cringing and moaning, it's pointless.
Not much point to a server that doesn't run java, is there?
Instead of doing it over and over again on the fly, why not just do it once and shoot the "fixed" html back to the authors, and firmly insist that they update their pages? This seems like a much better way to accomplish the same thing.
It's good that they are doing it so often.
It must cost them a small fortune every time.
Hopefully someone there who signs checks is getting tired of it all and is pushing for changes.
You are fucking stupid to have flash installed on any machine with ANY information in it.
Yes those computers with no information stored in them would be much safer, if they could exist.
There have been very usable flash 64-bit linux betas available for download for quite some time.
Java integration: if you want to run a 64 bit JVM for your plugins then you want a 64-bit browser.
Better Flash support: 64-bit flash plugin runs better than the 32-bit version on a 64-bit platform.