No, LILO doesn't work fine. LILO always was incredibly unreliable, it needs to know the fixed location of the kernel inside the disk (if you move your kernel it stops working). I can't count the times my system stopped booting because of stupid things like that. GRUB in the other hand can read filesystems so it doesn't need to know where kernels are, only the stages are neccesary. Even if it fails to find a kernel it has an interactive editor where you can list the available files in the/boot directory, which is useful for recovery. Also, LILO doesn't support UEFI.
ACPI was not designed by Intel alone, Microsoft was also there. And let's remember what Microsoft tried to do:
From: Bill Gates Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM To: Jeff Westorinon; Ben Fathi Cc: Carl Stork; Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific.
It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work.
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
That's not how the European Union works. Germany is not going to rely on France to provide them electricity, they are going to make plans to produce themselves all the power they need - and export to other countries, if they can.
Renewable energy sources are more than enought to cover the entire world's energy needs. They are expensive, inefficient and their output is very variable, but they are certainly capable of producing 100% or the energy the world uses right now.
That's just stupid. SIMATIC is used to automate things, it's not designed to be used only in nuclear power plants. They aren't going to stop making these machines.
VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions -- VMs can now be configured with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs.
In Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta 3 (yes, it's a beta, still...), based in KVM: supporting up to 128 logical CPUs and 2TB memory for hosts, and up to 64 vCPUs and 2TB memory for guests
ALL of the major OSes, MSFT Windows, Apple OSX, BSD all flavors, hell even OS/2 has an ABI.
Linux does have an ABI, it's called "syscalls". Drivers are a completely different beast. You are mixing both.
overhead for an ABI would be trivia
Here is where you show that you don't know what you are talking about. Why would an ABI have any overhead at all?
the fucking driver mess
Despite all the people who claimed, for decades, that making hard to develop binary drivers would be bad for Linux, it turns out that the Linux driver support is quite good. These days I don't even need to care about the hardware specs of a computer when I put Linux on it. And, unlike it usually happens with binary drivers made by hardware companies, Linux still supports old hardware. Try using Windows 7 64 bits in a old computer with an old graphics card and an old scanner.
I do care. There are huge amounts of.NET code out there, and being able to avoid a OS/runtime lock-in is a Good Thing. I remember the 90's, when windows was a monopoly because it was the only working win32 implementation...
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That's a separate (and not very healty) project.
"The compromise of kernel.org and related machines has made it clear that some developers, at least, have had their systems penetrated. As we seek to secure our infrastructure, it is imperative that nobody falls victim to the belief that it cannot happen to them. We all need to check our systems for intrusions. Here are some helpful hints as proposed by a number of developers on how to check to see if your Linux machine might be infected with something"
No, LILO doesn't work fine. LILO always was incredibly unreliable, it needs to know the fixed location of the kernel inside the disk (if you move your kernel it stops working). I can't count the times my system stopped booting because of stupid things like that. GRUB in the other hand can read filesystems so it doesn't need to know where kernels are, only the stages are neccesary. Even if it fails to find a kernel it has an interactive editor where you can list the available files in the /boot directory, which is useful for recovery. Also, LILO doesn't support UEFI.
Except that most users actually love the awesomeba. If anything, it seems that Firefox is trying to do what real users want, at the expense of geeks.
ACPI was not designed by Intel alone, Microsoft was also there. And let's remember what Microsoft tried to do:
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinon; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork; Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific.
It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work.
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
"Microsoft wrote an article about how they weren't making it harder to install Linux which described, in detail, how they're making it harder to install Linux. Here's my response" - https://plus.google.com/109386511629819124958/posts/GXc9y7E5uZX
That's not how the European Union works. Germany is not going to rely on France to provide them electricity, they are going to make plans to produce themselves all the power they need - and export to other countries, if they can.
Renewable energy sources are more than enought to cover the entire world's energy needs. They are expensive, inefficient and their output is very variable, but they are certainly capable of producing 100% or the energy the world uses right now.
That's just stupid. SIMATIC is used to automate things, it's not designed to be used only in nuclear power plants. They aren't going to stop making these machines.
I wish I could do the same with MeeGo.
I'm a progressive person, regulations don't scare me. But stupid regulations should be killed, and this one seems really stupid to me.
Graphic cards have been through a big revolution. These cards may not be that old, but technologically they are ancient.
VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions -- VMs can now be configured with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs.
In Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta 3 (yes, it's a beta, still...), based in KVM: supporting up to 128 logical CPUs and 2TB memory for hosts, and up to 64 vCPUs and 2TB memory for guests
ALL of the major OSes, MSFT Windows, Apple OSX, BSD all flavors, hell even OS/2 has an ABI.
Linux does have an ABI, it's called "syscalls". Drivers are a completely different beast. You are mixing both.
overhead for an ABI would be trivia
Here is where you show that you don't know what you are talking about. Why would an ABI have any overhead at all?
the fucking driver mess
Despite all the people who claimed, for decades, that making hard to develop binary drivers would be bad for Linux, it turns out that the Linux driver support is quite good. These days I don't even need to care about the hardware specs of a computer when I put Linux on it. And, unlike it usually happens with binary drivers made by hardware companies, Linux still supports old hardware. Try using Windows 7 64 bits in a old computer with an old graphics card and an old scanner.
Linux will stay stuck at 1%
Linux owns the smartphone and server market.
I do care. There are huge amounts of .NET code out there, and being able to avoid a OS/runtime lock-in is a Good Thing. I remember the 90's, when windows was a monopoly because it was the only working win32 implementation...
Or even better: Make possible to disable the android userspace and install the Maemo userspace on android phones.
It's a step forward in the race against human ignorance.
Also, the Fermilab is cheap. Their annual budget is equivalent to one day of war in Afganistan.
The architecture on which HURD is based is technically superior to Linux.
Citation needed.
There is no "someone's else wall".
In the main screen, there is a icon to send invitations (if they are available).
Your fault. Why would a web developer care about supporting beta versions right now?
I use virt-manager and I'm happy with it. But it's not as good as virtualbox for desktops (lacks 3d acceleration on guests, for example)
It took them 2 years and 5 months to release IE8, and 2 years to release IE9. Who knows when this version will be released...
Apple doesn't own 95% of the TV/computer/phone/music market share.
The fun thing is that Silverlight 3D APIs are not more secure than WebGL.