Actually this was posted first at Michael Moore's website, (www.michaelmoore.com) and has been posted on a lot of political sites as of late (not to mention I have about 20 emails of this). But I gather you can guess that with the credit to Michael at the top of his post.:)
I think his work as a whole is pretty good, it's nice to actually see someone from the left on tv every once and a while. Though I'm still not sure if I'm going to vote for McReynolds or Nader.
Why does all unix have to be Linux? It's about the right thing for the job and having a choice. If all we have is Linux then there really isn't much of a choice anymore. As long as the different unices (and hopefull windows too) all work together by following standards then we can all use the os we like or need for the job.
Also, why does Sun have bend to the wills of the slashdot community? They are doing rather well right now, and their Ultras are selling like crazy (even though it would be nice to get a Ultra 5 with SCSI disks:). Solaris 8 ships with a cd full of gnu stuff, you can buy a Ultra workstation with Redhat Linux from Sun directly, and they have released a utility to run Linux x86 things on Solaris x86. There are more ways to work with the free software community than by just tacking their os software under the gpl or bsd license.
I use Linux every day myself (not to mention Solaris and *BSD), but Linux isn't a replacement for Solaris with it's good multi cpu support and ability to hot patch the kernel (just to name a few things).
There is a place for everything, and for linux to 'win' others unices don't have to 'lose.'
have you ever heard of sun's jumpstart? it's a great way to easily install the os and needed software on multiple machines. it easily automates the process of installing patches, setting up partitions, messing with things like/etc/defaultrouter (as per your example above), plus it's really easy to install other applications too (sybase, your favorite shell, or gcc). honestly i'd rather have a base instalation like solaris has and build up from there, and i can't stand cde which can really bog down any non ultra system. from what i keep hearing solaris 8 will have a lot of gnu items with it like perl and ssh.
but seriously doing 500 + boxes with jumpstart is easy (even if you have multiple needs that the systems have to be deployed for), and i would know because thats what i did for my first few months and my present job:)
i've owned a many mac, and i know that most componets are really worth the price you pay for them, but Apple really does charge way too much for scsi disks on their g3/g4 models... it would be nice if Apple offered a bare bones system and let you buy your own scsi disks or at least had a 4 or 9 GB SCSI option for the G4s.
For the most part they look like good machines and if i had the money i would have a hard time stopping myself from buying one:)
I think it's the same reason that Sun is using ide disks in their Ultra 5 and 10 models; You have to compete pricewise with the Intel based workstation offerings. It really is too bad though, having a decent chip crippled by terrible disks... and knowing Apple if you can get it all scsi it will be pretty expensive.
The newer versions of AIM for windows (and I think Mac too) have both a file transfer feature and a chat room type feature (but you can only chat with other AIM users and not with AOL users). Then again the tik client doesn't have these features yet (I know that it's not in version.74) and I must agree for now ICQ is more useful
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Actually this was posted first at Michael Moore's website, (www.michaelmoore.com) and has been posted on a lot of political sites as of late (not to mention I have about 20 emails of this). But I gather you can guess that with the credit to Michael at the top of his post. :)
I think his work as a whole is pretty good, it's nice to actually see someone from the left on tv every once and a while. Though I'm still not sure if I'm going to vote for McReynolds or Nader.
Also, why does Sun have bend to the wills of the slashdot community? They are doing rather well right now, and their Ultras are selling like crazy (even though it would be nice to get a Ultra 5 with SCSI disks :). Solaris 8 ships with a cd full of gnu stuff, you can buy a Ultra workstation with Redhat Linux from Sun directly, and they have released a utility to run Linux x86 things on Solaris x86. There are more ways to work with the free software community than by just tacking their os software under the gpl or bsd license.
I use Linux every day myself (not to mention Solaris and *BSD), but Linux isn't a replacement for Solaris with it's good multi cpu support and ability to hot patch the kernel (just to name a few things).
There is a place for everything, and for linux to 'win' others unices don't have to 'lose.'
Justen
have you ever heard of sun's jumpstart? it's a great way to easily install the os and needed software on multiple machines. it easily automates the process of installing patches, setting up partitions, messing with things like /etc/defaultrouter (as per your example above), plus it's really easy to install other applications too (sybase, your favorite shell, or gcc).
:)
honestly i'd rather have a base instalation like solaris has and build up from there, and i can't stand cde which can really bog down any non ultra system. from what i keep hearing solaris 8 will have a lot of gnu items with it like perl and ssh.
but seriously doing 500 + boxes with jumpstart is easy (even if you have multiple needs that the systems have to be deployed for), and i would know because thats what i did for my first few months and my present job
-justen
SPARC stands for Scalable Processor ARCitecture, unless all the Sun reps have been telling me lies all this time :) -Justen
i've owned a many mac, and i know that most componets are really worth the price you pay for them, but Apple really does charge way too much for scsi disks on their g3/g4 models... it would be nice if Apple offered a bare bones system and let you buy your own scsi disks or at least had a 4 or 9 GB SCSI option for the G4s.
:)
For the most part they look like good machines and if i had the money i would have a hard time stopping myself from buying one
- Justen
I think it's the same reason that Sun is using ide disks in their Ultra 5 and 10 models; You have to compete pricewise with the Intel based workstation offerings. It really is too bad though, having a decent chip crippled by terrible disks... and knowing Apple if you can get it all scsi it will be pretty expensive.
The newer versions of AIM for windows (and I think Mac too) have both a file transfer feature and a chat room type feature (but you can only chat with other AIM users and not with AOL users). Then again the tik client doesn't have these features yet (I know that it's not in version .74) and I must agree for now ICQ is more useful
Justen