It's actually pretty funny.. whenever I hear politicians talking about encryption it's always email when in fact 99% of my use of encryption is either SSL or SSH.
I maintain 20+ servers as part of my job and I can tell you I'd rather maintain the 15 linux servers then the 2 MS.
It's all a matter of chosing the right distro. Sure RedHat or SuSE are good on 1 or 2 home desktops but I'd be a fool to run them here simply because Debian is much easier to keep updated.
Software I need custom compiled to/usr/local libs and the other 90% of the software I don't want to care about on the rest since "apt-get upgrade" does it for me.
I *might* have to answer some questions but unlike
Windows 2000 I won't have to reboot 3 times per update. (yes that's a HUGE improvement over NT4 but it's still annoying)
I've often wished MS had a dependency system. It's my single largest gripe with the OS. If they had one that could automatically update libs when some software needed something newer app writers wouldn't try to include the needed DLLs, and in turn wouldn't try to blindly overwrite what happens to be there alreaddy.
While it's sad to see another player leave the field this will make it easier for the others to make a profit. Right now there are too many distros fighting over too few users and we could stand to lose a coupple more.
Having said that, I would still like to see someone else other than just RedHat actually make money at this. (congrats to them but we need some long term competition)
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I think somone hit him with a cluebat.
.. whenever I hear politicians talking about encryption it's always email when in fact 99% of my use of encryption is either SSL or SSH.
It's actually pretty funny
I maintain 20+ servers as part of my job and I can tell you I'd rather maintain the 15 linux servers then the 2 MS.
/usr/local libs and the other 90% of the software I don't want to care about on the rest since "apt-get upgrade" does it for me.
It's all a matter of chosing the right distro. Sure RedHat or SuSE are good on 1 or 2 home desktops but I'd be a fool to run them here simply because Debian is much easier to keep updated.
Software I need custom compiled to
I *might* have to answer some questions but unlike
Windows 2000 I won't have to reboot 3 times per update. (yes that's a HUGE improvement over NT4 but it's still annoying)
I've often wished MS had a dependency system. It's my single largest gripe with the OS. If they had one that could automatically update libs when some software needed something newer app writers wouldn't try to include the needed DLLs, and in turn wouldn't try to blindly overwrite what happens to be there alreaddy.
Indeed .. I've found it easier to use X4's built in configurator and hand edit the conf file than to use Debian's.
While it's sad to see another player leave the field this will make it easier for the others to make a profit. Right now there are too many distros fighting over too few users and we could stand to lose a coupple more.
Having said that, I would still like to see someone else other than just RedHat actually make money at this. (congrats to them but we need some long term competition)
RTLinux is for specialised apps that need guarunteed sub millisecond responce times and is therefore more anal about preemption.
AFIK the preemption patch doesn't come close to RT in guarunteed latency but on the other hand it doesn't incur the speed hit either.
The lower the latencies the smoother your game is likely to be since it's being run at more predictable intervals