Sorry to burst your bubble, but I work for one of the largest corporate web developers in the world and we are dropping Netscape 3 support in two months, and in six months the only developement for netscape we will be doing will be for 4.61 and above.
This is the direction the entire industry is headed and it is a sweeping generalization because it is a fact. You are referring to one specific example.
If your product sucks or sits still while the world turns customers will begin to look elsewhere, and that's what happened with Netscape. It was the best browser once but that was years and years ago. By the time NS6/Mozilla6 or whatever it's called is released it will be so out of date that ppl will never consider using it.
MS did destroy NS because they have a better product, not at first, and not at least until IE4, but Netscape stagnated and bloated while IE moved at cheetah speed! NS began losing market share when IE2 came out and it was reduced even further when IE3 came out. These were unbunbled with Windows and ppl had to go out of their way to download them. Then IE4 was released and in a three month span NS lost 20% of their market,even before IE was bundled with Windows
HaHa..AOL replacing IE with Gecko! And when will Gecko/Mozilla be ready for AOL? 2001, 2002, 2004??
AOL will never risk alienating their millions of users from IE-only sites, which will probably comprise half the web btt Mozilla is stable.
There are many Open source sucess stories but Mozilla ain't one of them. I wish them luck though. What I've seen looks promising but has a long way to go....by that time IE7 will be out and have 90% of the market and noone will care.
I thought it was quite funny actually. For the first 20 secs the first image was loading I was thinking "wow, that lamp and chair look so real."
BTW, I have leaked screenshots of Descent IV. The cockpit look amazingly like the inside of my Ranger-it even has a tachometer,speedometer, and a set of buttons that resembles a CD player-and the scenery is similar the area where I live.;)
The problem with these Linux Zealots, or Linuts is that they will never be satisfied with any benchmark, any comparison, any rumor that shows any OS outperforming their precious Linux at anything. The responses of Linuts are what keeps me coming back to Slashdot for their humor but what I find even funnier is how they consider the ultimate nerd, Bill Gates, evil and MS the enemy, yet he is really is one of them. Sheesh ppl, he was a computer geek when he was 13!
NT4 beat Linux at Mindcraft. Linuts screamed that it was fixed. The second Mindcraft test allowed Linuts to configure the Linux system, yet NT4 still walked over it, yet it was still dismissed by the Linuts then and is seldom mentioned today.
Now we have Linux and W2k and Linux wins. Different hardware was used. Yet Linuts take the results as the 11th commandment. A little objectivity, open mindedness, and sphincter-loosening is needed.
Cars have 4 wheels, gas pedal on the right, clutch on the left, brake in the center, and your turn with a steering wheel. You can add alot of fancy gadgets and make the interior colorful and luxurious, yet the interface remains the same. So will it be with GUI's.
GUI's have become so similar that there are few real differences between them and they all work in the same way. Why? Because they receive input from a mouse and users point and click with it. Yes there are cosmetic differences between them but they all have the 'click on this icon to run this program'. Even with unorthodox ones like WindowMaker you still have to move your mouse then click to make something happen. As long as we use the mouse the GUI will not change.
Because the current tests are being performed under the exact same conditions as the one a couple months ago and NT won by a longshot. MS discovered that on this hw and with these benchmarks NT widely outperforms Linux and that is why it is being run. I don't think the LInux team can even install updated drivers.
This is a non-real world test just to make NT look good. Noone uses just one server to serve 50 million hits a day.
that most of this admiration is emerging from a revulsion to Microsoft Windows
Well duh! Revulsion to outrageous licence fees, bugs, crashes, FUD, and vaporware.
s well as the relatively low cost for the Linux operating system compared with other versions of Unix.
Gee, paying next to nothing to get the same performance as others that cost $$$$$$$'s. What a concept. This guy is like Yoda!
Companies that add features they need, but that are not accepted into the core distribution, may find themselves in a redevelopment and retesting cycle every time a new version of Linux is released.
You don't have to upgrade kernel everytime a new version comes out. But wait, upgrading every few months is the MS way to do things, so it must be the right way. How silly we are to think that we have when everything works right we should leave it alone. Sheesh!
Windows supporters still outnumber Linux supporters because Microsoft provides a better value proposition
Or maybe Linux is really just now taking off and Winblows has been preinstalled on every PC made since 1991.
Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition ships with a full complement of Internet services, including Web, proxy, index, messaging, database, transaction and firewall services.
Funny, so does Linux. Oh I forgot, you don't spend thousands of $$ for these services so they must not be as good as MS's.
Jeez, the mindcraft benchmark was more objective than this article. I think he is worried about that he might lose his cushy NT consulting job with the increasing adoption of Linux.
Whereas Microsoft's products are designed to work with one another and the operating system's services
Haaahaaaahahaha. I can't stop laughing at that one.
One of the reasons for Windows' growth has been the complexity of configuring and maintaining Unix operating systems. S
If automobile manufacturers started advertising their next car due out in one year as getting 200 mpg, having 300 HP, more torque than a diesel, runs on water and never crashes then customers would put off buying the competition too. Score one for MS's vaporware marketing deparment.
We've all seen articles like this before and it is getting so old. Linux can be complex if you don;t know a thing about it and you should look before you leap, but such blind subjectiveness is so ridiculous.
First thing I thought of when I read the article. Unless he has an ethernet card for each IP, which I think unlikely, then everything will go thru eth0. If multiple eth cards then route can be used to direct traffic thru each respective card.
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This is the direction the entire industry is headed and it is a sweeping generalization because it is a fact. You are referring to one specific example.
If your product sucks or sits still while the world turns customers will begin to look elsewhere, and that's what happened with Netscape. It was the best browser once but that was years and years ago. By the time NS6/Mozilla6 or whatever it's called is released it will be so out of date that ppl will never consider using it.
MS did destroy NS because they have a better product, not at first, and not at least until IE4, but Netscape stagnated and bloated while IE moved at cheetah speed! NS began losing market share when IE2 came out and it was reduced even further when IE3 came out. These were unbunbled with Windows and ppl had to go out of their way to download them. Then IE4 was released and in a three month span NS lost 20% of their market,even before IE was bundled with Windows
HaHa..AOL replacing IE with Gecko! And when will Gecko/Mozilla be ready for AOL? 2001, 2002, 2004??
AOL will never risk alienating their millions of users from IE-only sites, which will probably comprise half the web btt Mozilla is stable.
There are many Open source sucess stories but Mozilla ain't one of them. I wish them luck though. What I've seen looks promising but has a long way to go....by that time IE7 will be out and have 90% of the market and noone will care.
I thought it was quite funny actually. For the first 20 secs the first image was loading I was thinking "wow, that lamp and chair look so real."
BTW, I have leaked screenshots of Descent IV. The cockpit look amazingly like the inside of my Ranger-it even has a tachometer,speedometer, and a set of buttons that resembles a CD player-and the scenery is similar the area where I live. ;)
NT4 beat Linux at Mindcraft. Linuts screamed that it was fixed. The second Mindcraft test allowed Linuts to configure the Linux system, yet NT4 still walked over it, yet it was still dismissed by the Linuts then and is seldom mentioned today.
Now we have Linux and W2k and Linux wins. Different hardware was used. Yet Linuts take the results as the 11th commandment. A little objectivity, open mindedness, and sphincter-loosening is needed.
GUI's have become so similar that there are few real differences between them and they all work in the same way. Why? Because they receive input from a mouse and users point and click with it. Yes there are cosmetic differences between them but they all have the 'click on this icon to run this program'. Even with unorthodox ones like WindowMaker you still have to move your mouse then click to make something happen. As long as we use the mouse the GUI will not change.
This is a non-real world test just to make NT look good. Noone uses just one server to serve 50 million hits a day.
that most of this admiration is emerging from a revulsion to Microsoft Windows
Well duh! Revulsion to outrageous licence fees, bugs, crashes, FUD, and vaporware.
s well as the relatively low cost for the Linux operating system compared with other versions of Unix.
Gee, paying next to nothing to get the same performance as others that cost $$$$$$$'s. What a concept. This guy is like Yoda!
Companies that add features they need, but that are not accepted into the core distribution, may find themselves in a redevelopment and retesting cycle every time a new version of Linux is released.
You don't have to upgrade kernel everytime a new version comes out. But wait, upgrading every few months is the MS way to do things, so it must be the right way. How silly we are to think that we have when everything works right we should leave it alone. Sheesh!
Windows supporters still outnumber Linux supporters because Microsoft provides a better value proposition
Or maybe Linux is really just now taking off and Winblows has been preinstalled on every PC made since 1991.
Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition ships with a full complement of Internet services, including Web, proxy, index, messaging, database, transaction and firewall services.
Funny, so does Linux. Oh I forgot, you don't spend thousands of $$ for these services so they must not be as good as MS's.
Jeez, the mindcraft benchmark was more objective than this article. I think he is worried about that he might lose his cushy NT consulting job with the increasing adoption of Linux.
Whereas Microsoft's products are designed to work with one another and the operating system's services
Haaahaaaahahaha. I can't stop laughing at that one.
One of the reasons for Windows' growth has been the complexity of configuring and maintaining Unix operating systems. S
If automobile manufacturers started advertising their next car due out in one year as getting 200 mpg, having 300 HP, more torque than a diesel, runs on water and never crashes then customers would put off buying the competition too. Score one for MS's vaporware marketing deparment.
We've all seen articles like this before and it is getting so old. Linux can be complex if you don;t know a thing about it and you should look before you leap, but such blind subjectiveness is so ridiculous.
First thing I thought of when I read the article. Unless he has an ethernet card for each IP, which I think unlikely, then everything will go thru eth0. If multiple eth cards then route can be used to direct traffic thru each respective card.