True, there wheres the big volumes and money is, in the Windows NT workstation/server market segment. Dont get me wrong on this, I'm a 100% unix guy, but these are the hard facts. If they want to stay alive they need to drop the prices and push it as cheap Windows NT workstaion alternative. To sell huge amounts of Alpha boxes they need to push it as a good alternative to Intel workstation. And that brings the prices on the motherboards and chips down so we homeusers can aford to buy a Alpha too. "volume", "cheap" and "advertising" is the key words here.
Digital Unix runs around 25% faster than Linux on the same hardware depending on the job, and Digital Unix CC compiler produces much faster and more optimized code than GCC. So there is reasons for companys and universities to run DU instead of Linux, especialy if you do heavy computing, like research, simulution, math, etc.
Digital Unix runs around 25% faster than Linux on the same hardware depending on the job, and Digital Unix CC compiler produces much faster and more optimized code than GCC. So there is reasons for companys and universities to run DU instead of Linux, especialy if you do heavy computing, like research, simulution, math, etc.
haha, "free flow of ideas", software IS ideas, (ip), thus is commercial software the oposite to it aka "restricted ideas", and what about that "quality" bullshit, if you realy know what crappy buggy shit propetary software compaines the shove down our trouts you would rethink that statement. Hell, they even sell UNFINISHED products nowadays, development BETA versions to end-user customers!
They both use the same DnD protocol XDND and CORBA object request broker standard. so there should be no problems with KDE and GNOME apps talking to eachother I guess?
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Hell, they even sell UNFINISHED products nowadays,
development BETA versions to end-user customers!
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makes me wish I got a Voodoo2 card.
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