How about we set up two boxes, equivalent to slashdot's current setup up. One runs NT w/ IIS and the Other runs what Slashdot is currently running. Have them mirror each other and loadshare the traffic. Count how many it handles over a 6 month period. Count the number of reboots. Count the downtime for a software upgrade (hotfix vs. kernel patch). THAT would be a good "benchmark"
I don't know Rasterman. I have only used E to some small extent, but enough to know that whatever came with Redhat 6.0 (whether it was E or GNOME's fault) was very slow. E is pretty. I liek the way it looks. I do not like the way it works. But that is ok. I am an ex-windows user. Most people do not care about customizing the crap out of their window manager. They care about what allows them to get their work done. If their IT department mandates a switch from windows to Linux, I say KDE all the way, because they can get their work done quickly. It looks the same. It feels the same. And it was a lot easier to install than E was before RedHat 6.
As for Rasterman's comments with regards to Redhat. I believe these were extremely unprofessional. I think a simple "creative differences" would have sufficed. But saying that the company stifled your creative energies, etc, etc is a bit more than is needed. All it did was fuel the anti-redhat war.
Despite what the linux community at large appears to believe, not everyone has time to learn a new OS, a new way of thinking. Thay are not there because of the power of Emacs and grep, they are there because it does not crash. They are there because they can get their work done. IT people like it for remote admining, plus probably the power of the utils. I can vouch for this because I am an IT person, I tried to get a group of windows user to switch, and I knew that they woudl never have time to learn everything. They would rather spend the extra 3 minutes rebooting into something they knew rather than spend an extra 5 learning how to do email, then an extra 5 learnign how to start a command line app, then learn how to tar.
I know that learning is good (I spent the last year and a half learning linux as much as I could). I know that there are philosophical and ethical reasons for using linux. I don't care about those. I care that it is free (as in beer). I think it is neat that it is free (as in speech). I care that it works, and that the community in general cares more about quality than features. That's why I will use it. And I will keep using distributions that are easy to use.
Re:How is Mandrake different from Red Hat now
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Don't forget that Mandrake comes in versions (or will be) coming in version optimized for AMD, P2, and pentium. Get that extra boost of power. It would be cool to get a distro optimized for multiprocessors.
I am just getting out of college and looking for sysadmin work. Let me describe what I took in prep.
c++, linux, nt, perl, web programming, java, networking, security, software engineering, database management, machine arch, op systems
This is a highly abbreviated list. I also worked as a work study in the department, as a lab monitor, then as a lab manager, then as a "we don't know what to call you so lab manager will stay even though you do more than any lab manager we ever had before". A lot fo troubleshooting and finding solutions, etc. I worked at a local computer store as a tech to keep up my hardware skills. I did some web work on the side, and volunteered for helping to network the local school district.
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You might give this a try. Basically they have a load balancing daemon running to make sure that nothing gets overwhelmed.
At work here we are running about 16 MSexchange servers for about 3500 people. That's about 200/server. Icky....
How about we set up two boxes, equivalent to slashdot's current setup up. One runs NT w/ IIS and the Other runs what Slashdot is currently running. Have them mirror each other and loadshare the traffic. Count how many it handles over a 6 month period. Count the number of reboots. Count the downtime for a software upgrade (hotfix vs. kernel patch). THAT would be a good "benchmark"
I don't know Rasterman. I have only used E to some small extent, but enough to know that whatever came with Redhat 6.0 (whether it was E or GNOME's fault) was very slow. E is pretty. I liek the way it looks. I do not like the way it works. But that is ok. I am an ex-windows user. Most people do not care about customizing the crap out of their window manager. They care about what allows them to get their work done. If their IT department mandates a switch from windows to Linux, I say KDE all the way, because they can get their work done quickly. It looks the same. It feels the same. And it was a lot easier to install than E was before RedHat 6.
As for Rasterman's comments with regards to Redhat. I believe these were extremely unprofessional. I think a simple "creative differences" would have sufficed. But saying that the company stifled your creative energies, etc, etc is a bit more than is needed. All it did was fuel the anti-redhat war.
Despite what the linux community at large appears to believe, not everyone has time to learn a new OS, a new way of thinking. Thay are not there because of the power of Emacs and grep, they are there because it does not crash. They are there because they can get their work done. IT people like it for remote admining, plus probably the power of the utils. I can vouch for this because I am an IT person, I tried to get a group of windows user to switch, and I knew that they woudl never have time to learn everything. They would rather spend the extra 3 minutes rebooting into something they knew rather than spend an extra 5 learning how to do email, then an extra 5 learnign how to start a command line app, then learn how to tar.
I know that learning is good (I spent the last year and a half learning linux as much as I could). I know that there are philosophical and ethical reasons for using linux. I don't care about those. I care that it is free (as in beer). I think it is neat that it is free (as in speech). I care that it works, and that the community in general cares more about quality than features. That's why I will use it. And I will keep using distributions that are easy to use.
Don't forget that Mandrake comes in versions (or will be) coming in version optimized for AMD, P2, and pentium. Get that extra boost of power. It would be cool to get a distro optimized for multiprocessors.
I have one, and it does.
I am just getting out of college and looking for sysadmin work. Let me describe what I took in prep.
;)
c++, linux, nt, perl, web programming, java, networking, security, software engineering, database management, machine arch, op systems
This is a highly abbreviated list. I also worked as a work study in the department, as a lab monitor, then as a lab manager, then as a "we don't know what to call you so lab manager will stay even though you do more than any lab manager we ever had before". A lot fo troubleshooting and finding solutions, etc. I worked at a local computer store as a tech to keep up my hardware skills. I did some web work on the side, and volunteered for helping to network the local school district.
The one thing I did not do was sleep