It is fairly difficult to solve, and it's arguable what you gain from solving it. Truth is, most of the MMO player base is used to the sharding and isn't clamoring for anything else. EvE appeals to the nerdiest of that group, and scalability past their current numbers is far from proven (specially around the large trade hubs and markets like Jita).
We use regular RHEL to run our Oracle database. When we were setting this up, several people pointed out that Oracle's Linux was doing some pretty horrible things to the kernel and overall system setup, so we stayed away from it.
As far as support, lets face it: Oracle doesn't provide support. You can open tickets with them, and maybe get pointed to a patch to resolve a problem. If you are not a database shop you will be working with an independent vendor, who will setup the DB and do a lot of the administration stuff for you. We're pretty happy with the guys we use, and they didn't care either way between Oracle's release or "true" RHEL.
The larger issue is, why not support ANY LSB compliant distro? I dislike RHEL for various reasons, I would much rather run Debian like I do everywhere else. However I can't because of the support contracts. It wouldn't make any difference to our DB support people or Oracle operation, but I wouldn't waste my time figuring out a different distro each time I have to do something on the DB nodes.
You might want to investigate how the people writing Linux drivers for the Broadcom bcm43xx ( Airport Express ) went about it. One team sticking to write the specs, and a seperate one working from the specs into a working driver.
Windows Media player for Mac was a joke anyway. Very buggy, playback would stop/hang randomly. It's been there, and broken for years.. if only the format was open enough for others to implement working codecs.
Considering build systems like scons and jam, autocrap is already a technology of the past anyway
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It is definitely better to write portable code from the ground up and be able to run and debug it on multiple platforms. The GNU/Linux market share alone would not justify the time I spend on it.
This said, I'm much happier doing my developement on Linux when it's possible. Debugging isn't as easy as MSVC, but the environement just feels right for me.
TTimo
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I use a wiki because it's an easy format for me to edit and update wherever I am. I have no intention to make it writable - god we're getting enough feedback as it is:)
Thanks for pointing the language issue though. Would you know how to force a single language maybe?
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It appears that there is a number of badly pressed CDs. You should be able to exchange them at the store:)
Re:How does one get to the torrents?
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There is no login, you just need to click on 'DL' on the torrent page to get the.torrent and start downloading..
Actually, as much as I love Subversion ( I'm not going back to CVS - open or not ), it hasn't proven much in terms of security. Apache 2 for http/https access is great for your end users, but at the same time, it hasn't been scrutinized a lot for security yet. I guess there's still Subversion over ssh if you want to strengthen things a bit.
The seeding is getting a lot better. Initial seed was configured to max at 70kb/s, and early/. posting of the torrent sent the number of downloaders to 150/200 in no time.
Now we have a good base of complete downloads seeding back with good bandwidth.
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It is fairly difficult to solve, and it's arguable what you gain from solving it. Truth is, most of the MMO player base is used to the sharding and isn't clamoring for anything else. EvE appeals to the nerdiest of that group, and scalability past their current numbers is far from proven (specially around the large trade hubs and markets like Jita).
We use regular RHEL to run our Oracle database. When we were setting this up, several people pointed out that Oracle's Linux was doing some pretty horrible things to the kernel and overall system setup, so we stayed away from it.
As far as support, lets face it: Oracle doesn't provide support. You can open tickets with them, and maybe get pointed to a patch to resolve a problem. If you are not a database shop you will be working with an independent vendor, who will setup the DB and do a lot of the administration stuff for you. We're pretty happy with the guys we use, and they didn't care either way between Oracle's release or "true" RHEL.
The larger issue is, why not support ANY LSB compliant distro? I dislike RHEL for various reasons, I would much rather run Debian like I do everywhere else. However I can't because of the support contracts. It wouldn't make any difference to our DB support people or Oracle operation, but I wouldn't waste my time figuring out a different distro each time I have to do something on the DB nodes.
Whoever has kids can tell you how awful baby formula is. I'd puke on the TSA dude before I'm down with the bottle.
For a good laugh in the same category, try: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
You might want to investigate how the people writing Linux drivers for the Broadcom bcm43xx ( Airport Express ) went about it. One team sticking to write the specs, and a seperate one working from the specs into a working driver.
http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/progress
Andrew helped me here and there when I was looking at the Samba 4 code. A brilliant guy obviously, and quite friendly. Go Andrew!
Windows Media player for Mac was a joke anyway. Very buggy, playback would stop/hang randomly. It's been there, and broken for years .. if only the format was open enough for others to implement working codecs.
Considering build systems like scons and jam, autocrap is already a technology of the past anyway
It is definitely better to write portable code from the ground up and be able to run and debug it on multiple platforms. The GNU/Linux market share alone would not justify the time I spend on it.
This said, I'm much happier doing my developement on Linux when it's possible. Debugging isn't as easy as MSVC, but the environement just feels right for me.
TTimo
I use a wiki because it's an easy format for me to edit and update wherever I am. I have no intention to make it writable - god we're getting enough feedback as it is :)
Thanks for pointing the language issue though. Would you know how to force a single language maybe?
It appears that there is a number of badly pressed CDs. You should be able to exchange them at the store :)
There is no login, you just need to click on 'DL' on the torrent page to get the .torrent and start downloading..
the crappy tracker is slashdotted, oh well..
Actually, as much as I love Subversion ( I'm not going back to CVS - open or not ), it hasn't proven much in terms of security. Apache 2 for http/https access is great for your end users, but at the same time, it hasn't been scrutinized a lot for security yet. I guess there's still Subversion over ssh if you want to strengthen things a bit.
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Now that you mention this, I'm not sure .. but NFS has an experimental TCP operation mode too.
I tried to setup NFS over SSH yesterday actually, and it was hell. Couldn't pull it through.
Well .. lufs is the main player in userland filesystem stuff really. It has had sshfs functionality for months. Very slick.
The difference seems to be that SHFS does some amount of caching, which lufs doesn't do afaik. This has a good chance to improve performance.
Yeah I try to keep a log of how this is going on the page there.
The seeding is getting a lot better. Initial seed was configured to max at 70kb/s, and early /. posting of the torrent sent the number of downloaders to 150/200 in no time.
Now we have a good base of complete downloads seeding back with good bandwidth.
Yep. Torrent tracker running at Id since this morning. Slowly loading up.
BitTorrent tracker
Experimental BT tracker to hold official Id files
Straight from the horse's mouth
Didn't notice. That's for the Linux version actually, not the windows version.
And the fixed up URL