Well, for the sake of truth, I have had two customers tell me that they benchmarked FreeBSD against Linux (same application software), and FreeBSD won. The FreeBSD people have good reason to be much more dignified about losing in the market (instead of whining like they do). -russ
Did I say "same version"? It's trivially obvious to the least intelligent casual observer that the kernel binary shippped is NEVER the same, if only because different hardware support has been enabled. -russ
A Unix operating system is typically named for its kernel. FreeBSD runs the FreeBSD kernel, OpenBSD runs the OpenBSD kernel, Solaris runs the solaris and Linux runs the Linux kernel. If you took all the files associated with FreeBSD, and replaced it's kernel (and support programs like ps, lsof, etc) with the Linux kernel (&etc), you would be running Linux. Wouldn't you?
BTW, that's why Stallman is completely off base when he asks for Linux to be called GNU/Linux. The OS is called Linux regardless of how much GNU content there is.
Everyone is distributing libc6. Some people are still running libc5. Backwards compatibility is achieved by distributing libc5 as well. Forward compatibility is achieved by installing libc6. Has FreeBSD never had changes which are not forward-compatible? -russ
SGI is dropping IRIX. They're spinning off a subsidiary--very likely because SGI has contractural requirements to support IRIX. SGI itself is switching to Linux.
Your 50x figure is probably right. Given the higher development costs associated with proprietary software, the fact that it's a multiple of the resources devoted to Linux is not a good refutation of ESR's point. -russ
Because the whole point of an article like this is that the other free, open-source Unices (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.) are all children of fragmentation. You can tell -- it's in their blood. That's why *they* fragmented. -russ
Every time I try to download mp3's, I run into a banner site, or a ratio site which doesn't accept [anything I have to] uploads, or the site is down, or the password doesn't work, or the site is forever full.
Why can't I just *buy* mp3's? It would be a heck of a lot cheaper than the time I've wasted trying to download them for free. -russ
This program is bullshit. A number of hacker sniffing tools run over packet drivers, and as long as you don't do reverse-dns queries, you can scarf all the passwords you want. Of course, installing a packet driver takes physical access to the machine.
All this will protect you against is sniffers being run by legitimate machines. It won't protect you against a rogue machine. -russ
Apropos this *very* minute.
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I'm looking at my ten-year-old computer case, which has faithfully been upgraded from a 286 to a 386 to a 486 to a pentium, and gone through two power supplies. Given that it's a horizonal case, and vertical makes more sense, and it's got drive rails (remember drive rails?), and it's currently gone through its second power supply, I *think* it's time to recycle it. -russ
Clue: they scanned 36 million addresses. They were only looking for vulnerabilities on Unix hosts. Now, how many of those 36 million hosts were running Unix?
I want money: lots of it. That's why I give away my software, and sell my services -- because it gets me lots of money. I don't do it because I'm productive, or because you're not. I don't care about you unless you have money to give me.
And you call that attitude "communist"? Marx would be, um, *surprised*. -russ
Mellow out, Dax. AFAIK, it just means that enough people re-indicated interest that they now know they cannot give everyone the shares they asked for. Now they go to their allocation algorithm. -russ
If you got "the letter", and indicated interest at 10-12, you MUST re-indicate interest at 14. They haven't allocated the affinity shares yet, so you can still call your broker. -russ
I got the call after I'd gotten the email (AND called my broker). I'm reconfirmed @$14. But the shares haven't been bought yet, nor the money transferred. I asked about that and the fellow calling me said that they were still contacting people, and that the affinity shares were not allocated and would not be until some time later today. So if you're in the affinity program and haven't reconfirmed, you're not too late YET! -russ
*Any* time I freely exchange something with someone else, that is not zero-sum, because we both value the other thing higher. Even if I change a $1 bill for four quarters, that is not zero-sum. Why? Because I wouldn't have bothered unless I valued the four quarters more than a $1 bill.
Does it take time and effort to track the IPO? Yes. It's not free money; it cost me time to write the free software in the first place, and it's costing me time to buy the stock. Oh well, I've decided that it's still a better return per hour than the time I spend programming. -russ
Forget politics -- it takes more than one person to make a difference, and nobody cares to. Instead, don't buy software that has crummy licensing terms. If you refuse to buy such software, then you have just protected yourself from UCITA -- and isn't that worth doing? -russ
Please note that this law doesn't *require* the bad aspects of it. It simply allows them. Perhaps we can keep it from being enacted in the various states? If we don't succeed, we can still fight it in the marketplace by refusing to purchase software which has unacceptable shrink-wrap terms. -russ
How can you get the necessary source code audit without open source?? And if you aren't auditing the source code, you're going by guess and by golly. -russ
Presuambly there are advantages to running this windowing system. One of the first things you do, though, is write an X server for it, so you have backwards compatibility. Then you write native applications at your leisure. -russ
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Well, for the sake of truth, I have had two customers tell me that they benchmarked FreeBSD against Linux (same application software), and FreeBSD won. The FreeBSD people have good reason to be much more dignified about losing in the market (instead of whining like they do).
-russ
Did I say "same version"? It's trivially obvious to the least intelligent casual observer that the kernel binary shippped is NEVER the same, if only because different hardware support has been enabled.
-russ
A Unix operating system is typically named for its kernel. FreeBSD runs the FreeBSD kernel, OpenBSD runs the OpenBSD kernel, Solaris runs the solaris and Linux runs the Linux kernel. If you took all the files associated with FreeBSD, and replaced it's kernel (and support programs like ps, lsof, etc) with the Linux kernel (&etc), you would be running Linux. Wouldn't you?
BTW, that's why Stallman is completely off base when he asks for Linux to be called GNU/Linux. The OS is called Linux regardless of how much GNU content there is.
Everyone is distributing libc6. Some people are still running libc5. Backwards compatibility is achieved by distributing libc5 as well. Forward compatibility is achieved by installing libc6. Has FreeBSD never had changes which are not forward-compatible?
-russ
SGI is dropping IRIX. They're spinning off a subsidiary--very likely because SGI has contractural requirements to support IRIX. SGI itself is switching to Linux.
Your 50x figure is probably right. Given the higher development costs associated with proprietary software, the fact that it's a multiple of the resources devoted to Linux is not a good refutation of ESR's point.
-russ
Um, *you* wanted to know. Just because you don't like the answer, that doesn't mean it's wrong.
All Linux distros use the same kernel.
-russ
Because the whole point of an article like this is that the other free, open-source Unices (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.) are all children of fragmentation. You can tell -- it's in their blood. That's why *they* fragmented.
-russ
Every time I try to download mp3's, I run into a banner site, or a ratio site which doesn't accept [anything I have to] uploads, or the site is down, or the password doesn't work, or the site is forever full.
Why can't I just *buy* mp3's? It would be a heck of a lot cheaper than the time I've wasted trying to download them for free.
-russ
This program is bullshit. A number of hacker sniffing tools run over packet drivers, and as long as you don't do reverse-dns queries, you can scarf all the passwords you want. Of course, installing a packet driver takes physical access to the machine.
All this will protect you against is sniffers being run by legitimate machines. It won't protect you against a rogue machine.
-russ
I'm looking at my ten-year-old computer case, which has faithfully been upgraded from a 286 to a 386 to a 486 to a pentium, and gone through two power supplies. Given that it's a horizonal case, and vertical makes more sense, and it's got drive rails (remember drive rails?), and it's currently gone through its second power supply, I *think* it's time to recycle it.
-russ
Clue: they scanned 36 million addresses. They were only looking for vulnerabilities on Unix hosts. Now, how many of those 36 million hosts were running Unix?
Be scared. Be very scared.
-russ
I want money: lots of it. That's why I give away my software, and sell my services -- because it gets me lots of money. I don't do it because I'm productive, or because you're not. I don't care about you unless you have money to give me.
And you call that attitude "communist"? Marx would be, um, *surprised*.
-russ
There does seem to be a substantial amount of confusion going on. Gee, I wonder if E*TRADE is using proprietary software? :) -russ
Nope, no shares yet. Not only that, but the Account Service page is broken. /me thinks we slashdotted them.
-russ
Mellow out, Dax. AFAIK, it just means that enough people re-indicated interest that they now know they cannot give everyone the shares they asked for. Now they go to their allocation algorithm.
-russ
If you got "the letter", and indicated interest at 10-12, you MUST re-indicate interest at 14. They haven't allocated the affinity shares yet, so you can still call your broker.
-russ
I got the call after I'd gotten the email (AND called my broker). I'm reconfirmed @$14. But the shares haven't been bought yet, nor the money transferred. I asked about that and the fellow calling me said that they were still contacting people, and that the affinity shares were not allocated and would not be until some time later today. So if you're in the affinity program and haven't reconfirmed, you're not too late YET!
-russ
*Any* time I freely exchange something with someone else, that is not zero-sum, because we both value the other thing higher. Even if I change a $1 bill for four quarters, that is not zero-sum. Why? Because I wouldn't have bothered unless I valued the four quarters more than a $1 bill.
Does it take time and effort to track the IPO? Yes. It's not free money; it cost me time to write the free software in the first place, and it's costing me time to buy the stock. Oh well, I've decided that it's still a better return per hour than the time I spend programming.
-russ
Forget politics -- it takes more than one person to make a difference, and nobody cares to. Instead, don't buy software that has crummy licensing terms. If you refuse to buy such software, then you have just protected yourself from UCITA -- and isn't that worth doing?
-russ
Please note that this law doesn't *require* the bad aspects of it. It simply allows them. Perhaps we can keep it from being enacted in the various states? If we don't succeed, we can still fight it in the marketplace by refusing to purchase software which has unacceptable shrink-wrap terms.
-russ
I got an alert at 10:09PM which said that a new pricing plan would require a new indication of interest.
-russ
Possible poll question: is megabyte 10**6 or 2**20?
-russ
No, it would be too weird to spell it that way.
-russ
How can you get the necessary source code audit without open source?? And if you aren't auditing the source code, you're going by guess and by golly.
-russ
The dollar that gets exported often stays there, as the foreign stable currency of preference, all praise Greenspan.
If the worker is legal, then you can't "send 'em back to whereeverganistan."
We still have very high wages. Open immigration would raise our wages, because increased productivity is the only thing that does.
-russ
Presuambly there are advantages to running this windowing system. One of the first things you do, though, is write an X server for it, so you have backwards compatibility. Then you write native applications at your leisure.
-russ