This could be interesting. Since bacteria mutate (or evolve, as it were) how would that affect previously stored data? Methinks the outcome would be funny. Save my resume one day, the next it becomes microbiotic porn. Cool!!
I didn't read the article, but seriously, who in their right mind would save presumably important data on a mechanism that constantly changes?
Perhaps the person the author is complaining about needs to go back to school and take some fundamental CS courses.
Operating System defined is "a collection of software that allows a computer to function." A GUI, developer tools, etc. are not needed to make the computer function, but the ability to copy files, view files, etc. are.
UNIX has these. It is an operating system.
"Having Linux knowledgable people run the test allows performance tuning for the application being tested."
This is one of my main complaints about Linux - the tuning required to get an application, service, whatever to run with acceptable performance.
I realize that there are ten million different Linux configurations out there, each one of them subtely different. However, application developers should tune include scripts, defaults, whatever to help minimize the tuning process.
Look at it this way. Idiot user installs Windows 2000 Server (or whatever its called), IIS, SQL 7.0, sets up some nify web pages, done.
Linux guy sets up Linux distro and hopefully included MySQL and Apache. Tunes both of them to death. Tunes the OS to death. Will it win in benchmarks? Perhaps, but a lot more work has to go into it compared to other operating systems.
Linux distros, applications, and services need to come optimized. My recent install of Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 showed how much post-installation tweaking was necessary.
Business is about money. Spending half a day to get a senior tech to tune a server OS to run Apache or whatever gets expensive. This is one of the things that hurts Linux...
-Necro
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This could be interesting. Since bacteria mutate (or evolve, as it were) how would that affect previously stored data? Methinks the outcome would be funny. Save my resume one day, the next it becomes microbiotic porn. Cool!!
I didn't read the article, but seriously, who in their right mind would save presumably important data on a mechanism that constantly changes?
...comes into play?
They won't.
No big deal. The sites will move out of the U.S. Funny that they think they can stop it...
Perhaps the person the author is complaining about needs to go back to school and take some fundamental CS courses. Operating System defined is "a collection of software that allows a computer to function." A GUI, developer tools, etc. are not needed to make the computer function, but the ability to copy files, view files, etc. are. UNIX has these. It is an operating system.
"Having Linux knowledgable people run the test allows performance tuning for the application being tested." This is one of my main complaints about Linux - the tuning required to get an application, service, whatever to run with acceptable performance. I realize that there are ten million different Linux configurations out there, each one of them subtely different. However, application developers should tune include scripts, defaults, whatever to help minimize the tuning process. Look at it this way. Idiot user installs Windows 2000 Server (or whatever its called), IIS, SQL 7.0, sets up some nify web pages, done. Linux guy sets up Linux distro and hopefully included MySQL and Apache. Tunes both of them to death. Tunes the OS to death. Will it win in benchmarks? Perhaps, but a lot more work has to go into it compared to other operating systems. Linux distros, applications, and services need to come optimized. My recent install of Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 showed how much post-installation tweaking was necessary. Business is about money. Spending half a day to get a senior tech to tune a server OS to run Apache or whatever gets expensive. This is one of the things that hurts Linux... -Necro