My company produce NAS called Discobolos and it's VERY succesfull here in Czech republic and now we are expanding to the Germany. Guess which OS we use? Linux;) And we are 2-3 TIMES(!!!) cheaper and faster then any other product you mentioned...
I also think that integrating GUI into kernel is stupid IF the GUI is not integrated as module (I see the reasons for integrating it - like saving context switching time etc.) which can be "easily" updated/debuged/changed.
But there is one thing I don't undestand - the most richest company in the world is unable to produce top-level software product (in means of quality) - there must be something rotten in Redmond...
Because I'm project manager/main programmer. Imagine - whole NAS was done just by 2 men/1.5 year and it has more features then any NAS on the market for 50-300%(!) less price...
I can't imagine how dificult (read expensive) must be doing (from programmers point of view - not from users!) some things in Windows (e.g. changing NAS IP addres by web browser, updating new kernel/OS services just by uploading 1 file etc...)
And that I don't speak about licencing (AFAIK it's forbidden to run email/WWW/SQL server on such a server - small companies don't want to have X servers for X services).
My company is producing NAS server based on Linux (RH 7.2) supporting all kinds of Windows, Apples an UN*X. I can't imagine doing such a stuff with with Windows. E.g. Maxtor's NAS has 1 GB (yes, GIGABYTE!) RAM - our system runs @128 MB with 90 MB used for caching... Should I tell more? (maybe that our EU price for 1.6 TB RAID5 is 6 k$;))))
Nope - IIRC u r wrong - Unix was NOT designed to use neither OpenSSH nor shadow passwords - these features were added much later (even now you can see it in/etc/passwd) when Unix spread more and security become an issue.
Well, I have passed exam from time/space complexity problems (constat/linear/exponencial/polynomial etc. - P/NP classes) so I know what are you talking about. But I don't understand what does it with process scheduling - it means that time to decide which process will be now active is always constant or that each process is active a for constant time?
That's something COMPLETELY different! IIS is intented to be MS "flagship" as the Internet server. File sharing is (probably) intented to be easy to use for BFU's which just wants to share files simply.
This I think is really great and can help to spread Linux and KDE between more users. Another thing would be if this option will be by default on and will have security troubles.
M$ cannot fight anything what doesn't exist!
If they (after moths and lot of $) suceed to shutdown (for example) www.samba.org site there is no problem to move to another country;-)
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This all the results after taking 1 month fixing bugs and educating sw people about security? Wow!
That's impossible! Most Microsoft software emulates MacOS and X-Windows! Oh yesssss, babyyyy!
Wow - I'd like to see Windows/Office being forced to be GPL 'coz they use some 100-lines GPL'ed function :-)))
Not necessarily. It's thenafter about talent of programmers to write better "self-learning" code ;-)
Maybe because it's Czech made ;)
My company produce NAS called Discobolos and it's VERY succesfull here in Czech republic and now we are expanding to the Germany. Guess which OS we use? Linux ;) And we are 2-3 TIMES(!!!) cheaper and faster then any other product you mentioned...
I also think that integrating GUI into kernel is stupid IF the GUI is not integrated as module (I see the reasons for integrating it - like saving context switching time etc.) which can be "easily" updated/debuged/changed.
But there is one thing I don't undestand - the most richest company in the world is unable to produce top-level software product (in means of quality) - there must be something rotten in Redmond...
Because I'm project manager/main programmer. Imagine - whole NAS was done just by 2 men/1.5 year and it has more features then any NAS on the market for 50-300%(!) less price...
I can't imagine how dificult (read expensive) must be doing (from programmers point of view - not from users!) some things in Windows (e.g. changing NAS IP addres by web browser, updating new kernel/OS services just by uploading 1 file etc...)
And that I don't speak about licencing (AFAIK it's forbidden to run email/WWW/SQL server on such a server - small companies don't want to have X servers for X services).
I forget to say the main thing - Maxtor is using Windows 2000 as their NAS OS.
My company is producing NAS server based on Linux (RH 7.2) supporting all kinds of Windows, Apples an UN*X. I can't imagine doing such a stuff with with Windows. E.g. Maxtor's NAS has 1 GB (yes, GIGABYTE!) RAM - our system runs @128 MB with 90 MB used for caching... Should I tell more? (maybe that our EU price for 1.6 TB RAID5 is 6 k$ ;))))
IIRC there is one "music" that is patented - sound of Harley ;-)
Not only Australia - the same Czech republic and IMHO all around the world :(
MAINLY I'd appriciete multi language support (spell checking etc.) - in my country (Czech rep.) is this main disadvantage of Open/Star/*-office.
Nope - IIRC u r wrong - Unix was NOT designed to use neither OpenSSH nor shadow passwords - these features were added much later (even now you can see it in /etc/passwd) when Unix spread more and security become an issue.
Well, I have passed exam from time/space complexity problems (constat/linear/exponencial/polynomial etc. - P/NP classes) so I know what are you talking about. But I don't understand what does it with process scheduling - it means that time to decide which process will be now active is always constant or that each process is active a for constant time?
Can you please explain what scheduler is good for (scheduling time to proceses?) and why O(1) is better than current? Thx
Hmmm, that's quite old - isn't it? I've Linux 7.2 ;-)
;-)
(kidding too
I think that main issue (technically and financialy) is the user training and support.
X server
DVD 2 DivX grabber :-)
Beowulf cluster of these for SETI ;-)
That's something COMPLETELY different! IIS is intented to be MS "flagship" as the Internet server. File sharing is (probably) intented to be easy to use for BFU's which just wants to share files simply.
This I think is really great and can help to spread Linux and KDE between more users. Another thing would be if this option will be by default on and will have security troubles.
Current bandwidth utilization 98.35 Mbit/s
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2.4, sweet 2.4....
M$ cannot fight anything what doesn't exist! ;-)
If they (after moths and lot of $) suceed to shutdown (for example) www.samba.org site there is no problem to move to another country