(i haven't read the whole article) I believe the article is written by someone that has never really used either SCO of Linux, but has all the information from Press releases or something. We should not forget that the vast majority of the people think like the author; if a company has to decide which OS to run on their servers, they would almost certainly not choose Linux (or any free OS) unless they have a Linux-freaked sysadmin (I hope they do). Why not? Well...such ppl start to search on the internet and they will find sites of vendors of commercial vendors offering them onsite-support, #)*&%^)*& good stability etc. On the other hand they'll find any random Linux-site telling them that it's free. But do they have the brains and time to install it by themselves and tweak all the option? No they don't...they want some expert to install it for them and do al the nice tuning. Therefore they'll more likely choose one of the commercial unixes. They want a guarantee that there will always be someone to help and they're very willing to pay a little more for that.
That's nearly always the case with questions asked in Ask Slashdot. Everything can be looked up. The real use of this forum is (in my opinion) that one can get answers from ppl who have real-life experience with the issue. That is valuable information one cannot get by reading those websites.
I doubt you've ever tried a distro like Debian. I think Slack waited way too long to switch to a more up-to-date version of glibc. I think therefore a lot of it's users switched to another distro. Also it's package-system lacks a good way of updating/deleting packages and checking dependencies (at least it did when i used it the last time). Slack used to be my favorite, but now I prefer Debian because of it's neat package-system. Furthermore your argument about VMware doesn't make any sense. I doubt VMware runs smoother on a slack-system than on any other Linux box...actually you don't give any argument at all. Damn I shouln't have replied; nobody'll read this since you'll be moderated down...
Ehr had too much coffee? Broke up with your boyfriend? Anyhow...the link you mention doesn't show very much, but the system looks cool. I the time it takes to port an application to another platform has more to do with the quality (platform-indepentency) of the code than the weirdness of the operating system.
One can't read the article and be own the first post offcourse. It's a matter of priorities. I think our first-poster's priorities are very very clear:) Maybe the submit-page shold check the submitter's history to see if he/she has read the article and if he/she hasn't then just give the comment -1 points or something like that:)
I just found something not worth calling a bug, but it's quite annoying (something with scrolling *AGAIN*). I've already seen a *LOT* of those and every time I tried to submit a bug, but the bugzilla system is just so very not-userfriendly that every time I wanted to submit a bug, i gave up after some time; I don't think it's worth the time. They should really make bugzilla a lot more intuitive.
You can also use a slave-flashlight that responds to the flash from the detector. If it takes a picture of your car then, it will only show the birght light of the slave-flasher. Professional photographers use these things. There also exists special paint that reflects strong light really good. You can paint your license plate with this shit and on all pictures taken with a flash-light your license plate will look totally white. Another real cool solution would be to place a semi-transparant LCD-screen over the license plate. This is an LCD-screen that's transparant, but when you put a voltage on it, it will become black. Just have this thing controlled by your radar-detector and you're save. Unfortunately all of these solutions are illegal in my country (who cares, i don't own a car anyway).
So you are saying that JavaScript causes a security-risk just because there are some buggy browsers around? Then I say C should be avoided because of my bad experiences with this and that commercial C-IDE. BULLSHIT!
How do you prove that Win2K doesn't use some modified Linux IP stack? Well I don't know much about it, but remember Teardrop?:) That DOS-attack took down nearly all OS'es. So they all had the same bug. Coincidence? Think not.
I believe school does more than just fill children with knowledge. They also learn to interact with other people there. They learn that there are not-so-nice-people around. And people that are less intelligent, other, different, weird etc. In my opinion the most important thing one learns in school is social skills. You cannot learn such basic knowledge when you're kept in a save environment without having to deal with the "real world".
I see most ppl say "cp -a". I usually do it that way too, but you'd better not do that when the system is up and running since a running system keeps changing files (logfiles etc). In my opinion the best way to deal with this is to boot the system from a bootdisk (I use hal91, which is a Linux-distro on 1 floppy), then mount all the old partitions under/mnt/hda? and the new ones under/mnt/hdb?. Then I copy them with "cp -a/mnt/hda1/*/mnt/hdb1" etc. Then I run mkswap, unmount all the partitions and reboot the system with a bootdisk. Then I rerun LILO (don't leave CHS-settings for your old disk in the append-line!). So my two tips: (1) Use a bootdisk like hal91 and (2) Use cp -a (-a is for archive)
Maybe I should have said "any random DB running on Linux" instead of MySQL/Linux. My point was that they'd be doing this in the first place because they can make money with it. I don't think that screwing MS is very interesting for them:) And that is what the article implicated.
The article says their main reason for porting Oracle to Linux would be to outflank MS. I don't believe that - I think they're just doing it because they think they can make money with it. They just don't want to loose customers to MySQL/Linux.
Maybe this is what you're looking for. This is pasted directly from the Alliance OS FAQ:
What is Alliance?
Alliance is an Open Source project which is developing an Operating System loosely based upon the Cache Kernel concept as developed by Stanford University and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) from OMG.
Alliance uses the Cache Kernel concept to create an OS environment geared towards the emulation of other Operating Systems and hardware platforms. The goal is not only to have a fantastic OS emulator, but to provide an environment where data can be shared across the OS boundaries. It also provides very intriguing resources for native applications (real-time process support, distributed computing support, and a host of other cool things.)
But www.fast.no seems to be running Linux. Anyway...according to the Uptime List, FreeBSD has much higher uptimes than Linux. Looks like it is the choice of the folks that don't reboot. I think those are mainly to be found in commercial environments like this one. Quite funny - a search for my nick/handle only finds results on/. and [fm]:)
"...The customer is a non-profit and is cost sensitive..."
NT server costs more than $1000 (dfl 2579,--). That's not what I call cost-sensitive. You could hire a real GOOD programmer for 2 weeks with $1000 that could write you a custom fax-server for Linux/BSD and windows-drivers (GPLed offcourse). I'd not use NT just because it's way too expensive.
I think it wont even cost $35.000 to port it to Linux, so they only have to sell one of them to get even. By the way - I'm not sure, but I think FreeBSD is used a lot more in "commercial environments", so porting it to FreeBSD would be a better idea. On the other hand, FreeBSD can also run Linux-apps:)
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(i haven't read the whole article) I believe the article is written by someone that has never really used either SCO of Linux, but has all the information from Press releases or something. We should not forget that the vast majority of the people think like the author; if a company has to decide which OS to run on their servers, they would almost certainly not choose Linux (or any free OS) unless they have a Linux-freaked sysadmin (I hope they do). Why not? Well...such ppl start to search on the internet and they will find sites of vendors of commercial vendors offering them onsite-support, #)*&%^)*& good stability etc. On the other hand they'll find any random Linux-site telling them that it's free. But do they have the brains and time to install it by themselves and tweak all the option? No they don't...they want some expert to install it for them and do al the nice tuning. Therefore they'll more likely choose one of the commercial unixes. They want a guarantee that there will always be someone to help and they're very willing to pay a little more for that.
Hmm seeing the fuzziness I suddenly understand the flashes that can be seen at the beginning and the end of the total eclipse.
That's nearly always the case with questions asked in Ask Slashdot. Everything can be looked up. The real use of this forum is (in my opinion) that one can get answers from ppl who have real-life experience with the issue. That is valuable information one cannot get by reading those websites.
I doubt you've ever tried a distro like Debian. I think Slack waited way too long to switch to a more up-to-date version of glibc. I think therefore a lot of it's users switched to another distro. Also it's package-system lacks a good way of updating/deleting packages and checking dependencies (at least it did when i used it the last time). Slack used to be my favorite, but now I prefer Debian because of it's neat package-system. Furthermore your argument about VMware doesn't make any sense. I doubt VMware runs smoother on a slack-system than on any other Linux box...actually you don't give any argument at all. Damn I shouln't have replied; nobody'll read this since you'll be moderated down...
Heh it's one of those "I would love to have a beowulf cluster with these things"-guys again :) Where are my moderator-points when I need 'em ?
better names than you picked: better_sprintf(), better_sscanf() and better_gets()
I would say "body transplant"...you don't get a new head; you get a new body.
Ehr had too much coffee? Broke up with your boyfriend? Anyhow...the link you mention doesn't show very much, but the system looks cool. I the time it takes to port an application to another platform has more to do with the quality (platform-indepentency) of the code than the weirdness of the operating system.
One can't read the article and be own the first post offcourse. It's a matter of priorities. I think our first-poster's priorities are very very clear :) Maybe the submit-page shold check the submitter's history to see if he/she has read the article and if he/she hasn't then just give the comment -1 points or something like that :)
I just found something not worth calling a bug, but it's quite annoying (something with scrolling *AGAIN*). I've already seen a *LOT* of those and every time I tried to submit a bug, but the bugzilla system is just so very not-userfriendly that every time I wanted to submit a bug, i gave up after some time; I don't think it's worth the time. They should really make bugzilla a lot more intuitive.
You can also use a slave-flashlight that responds to the flash from the detector. If it takes a picture of your car then, it will only show the birght light of the slave-flasher. Professional photographers use these things. There also exists special paint that reflects strong light really good. You can paint your license plate with this shit and on all pictures taken with a flash-light your license plate will look totally white. Another real cool solution would be to place a semi-transparant LCD-screen over the license plate. This is an LCD-screen that's transparant, but when you put a voltage on it, it will become black. Just have this thing controlled by your radar-detector and you're save. Unfortunately all of these solutions are illegal in my country (who cares, i don't own a car anyway).
So you are saying that JavaScript causes a security-risk just because there are some buggy browsers around? Then I say C should be avoided because of my bad experiences with this and that commercial C-IDE. BULLSHIT!
How do you prove that Win2K doesn't use some modified Linux IP stack?
Well I don't know much about it, but remember Teardrop?:) That DOS-attack took down nearly all OS'es. So they all had the same bug. Coincidence? Think not.
I believe school does more than just fill children with knowledge. They also learn to interact with other people there. They learn that there are not-so-nice-people around. And people that are less intelligent, other, different, weird etc. In my opinion the most important thing one learns in school is social skills. You cannot learn such basic knowledge when you're kept in a save environment without having to deal with the "real world".
I see most ppl say "cp -a". I usually do it that way too, but you'd better not do that when the system is up and running since a running system keeps changing files (logfiles etc). In my opinion the best way to deal with this is to boot the system from a bootdisk (I use hal91, which is a Linux-distro on 1 floppy), then mount all the old partitions under /mnt/hda? and the new ones under /mnt/hdb?. Then I copy them with "cp -a /mnt/hda1/* /mnt/hdb1" etc. Then I run mkswap, unmount all the partitions and reboot the system with a bootdisk. Then I rerun LILO (don't leave CHS-settings for your old disk in the append-line!). So my two tips: (1) Use a bootdisk like hal91 and (2) Use cp -a (-a is for archive)
Maybe I should have said "any random DB running on Linux" instead of MySQL/Linux. My point was that they'd be doing this in the first place because they can make money with it. I don't think that screwing MS is very interesting for them :) And that is what the article implicated.
The article says their main reason for porting Oracle to Linux would be to outflank MS. I don't believe that - I think they're just doing it because they think they can make money with it. They just don't want to loose customers to MySQL/Linux.
Roger that
Looks like you used HTML in your comment and submitted it in "Plain Old Text"-mode (since your linebreaks consist of 3 HTML-tags) :)
Which is the biggest problem? >:p
What is Alliance?
Alliance is an Open Source project which is developing an Operating System loosely based upon the Cache Kernel concept as developed by Stanford University and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) from OMG.
Alliance uses the Cache Kernel concept to create an OS environment geared towards the emulation of other Operating Systems and hardware platforms. The goal is not only to have a fantastic OS emulator, but to provide an environment where data can be shared across the OS boundaries. It also provides very intriguing resources for native applications (real-time process support, distributed computing support, and a host of other cool things.)
But www.fast.no seems to be running Linux. Anyway...according to the Uptime List, FreeBSD has much higher uptimes than Linux. Looks like it is the choice of the folks that don't reboot. I think those are mainly to be found in commercial environments like this one. Quite funny - a search for my nick/handle only finds results on /. and [fm] :)
NT server costs more than $1000 (dfl 2579,--). That's not what I call cost-sensitive. You could hire a real GOOD programmer for 2 weeks with $1000 that could write you a custom fax-server for Linux/BSD and windows-drivers (GPLed offcourse). I'd not use NT just because it's way too expensive.
216gb/hour==61.44mb/second...that is about 75% of 655mbit...you'd better not backup over a network with such a device :)
I think it wont even cost $35.000 to port it to Linux, so they only have to sell one of them to get even. By the way - I'm not sure, but I think FreeBSD is used a lot more in "commercial environments", so porting it to FreeBSD would be a better idea. On the other hand, FreeBSD can also run Linux-apps :)