No, I don't think that's true anymore. I know people who aren't computer savvy who have put Ubuntu on their old machines without any problems and then, after some time, ditched Windows completely.
There was no prompting, hand holding, or convincing. They did it on their own. I just learned about it after the fact.
Linux, in some forms at least (Ubuntu, Fedora, maybe some others), really is easy enough now for the Average Joe to use without having access to a guru.
Xorg will autodetect most displays and configure itself properly on the fly. I don't even think my work machine or my home laptop even has an xorg.conf.
When was the last time you messed with your X config?
Anything admin related should always target the command line first and then pretty GUI wrappers second. That way people like you don't need to use a terminal to accomplish something, but people like me can get our work done.
If a tool isn't usable on the command line, then it isn't scriptable. If it's not scriptable, then it can't be used for real work.
I don't think flash is appropriate for long term storage. I've known lots of people to back stuff up on a flash drive and then a year or two later have corrupted archives when they try to restore from it.
Anyone know why flash drives seem to degrade over time when they're not being used?
64 gigs isn't enough any more. my laptops' / partition holds 48 gigs (80 gigs still free), and my/home takes up 80 gigs (78 still free). And no, I don't have movies on it... just programs and data.
It's curious that you say that.
My home machine has an Ubuntu partition, a Gentoo partition, and shared/home and SWAP. It has an 80G drive in it, but I've only partitioned the first 60G of it, and am only using 30G of that.
My work machine (of the last 5 years) has a 40G drive on it that I'm using about 25G of.
Operating systems, even with lots of apps, aren't particularly big. I use external drives for music, movies, etc.
We're an R&D group, so configuration changes come fast and furious with whatever new projects come down the pipeline. Gentoo configuration is extremely transparent and easy to understand.
RedHat configuration has many levels of abstraction (designed, no doubt, to make GUI configuration tools possible) that makes hand editing of config files a nightmare. I guess this wouldn't be a problem if the GUI tools could do what you needed them to, but it never seems to work out that way.
It takes about 15 minutes to roll out a new Gentoo server (grab the appropriate disk image from the build machine, untar it to the new box, make machine specific config changes (often via a script), and boot).
We do keep some RedHat boxes around, but trying to install software that didn't come in the RPM bundle for whatever version of RHAS you've got usually forces you to build from source...and if you're building from source, why are you using RHAS?
You're not doing an emerge world on all your machines, are you?
If you've got a rack of identical machines, you use one as a build machine and push the results to the production machines.
Also, why are you doing the 'emerge world' in the first place? The only reason I can think of to rebuild the entire world is for a toolchain upgrade (gcc, glibc, etc), but you wouldn't do that on an otherwise stable production machine. You'd create a new image with the updated toolchain on your build machine and then, when you're happy with the results, push that image to your production machines.
A method that doesn't return anything is a procedure. A method that returns something is a function.
At least that's what I was taught in my undergrad programming languages course. Oracle also seems to treat it this way (stored procedures vs stored functions).
It's interesting that you say this. I got a brand new MacBook Pro last week to replace my 5 year old Gentoo box. I tried to like OS X for 2 weeks, but today I told my manager to give it to someone else and order me a new Dell.
Yes, I know I could have installed Gentoo on the Mac, but I'd really like to have my page up/down, home, and end keys back. Also, as a vi user, that tiny esc key is a real pain.
i think most parabolic trough and solar power tower installations use Stirling engines to generate electricity.
I think this is wrong. Except for the SES systems, most CST systems use a heat exchanger and a boiler.
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Show me a single Linux distro which has a man page for either bash or grep, two tools you mention. For that matter, show me a single Linux distro that has documentation that is even remotely as good as OpenBSD's. OpenBSD's man pages are truly beautiful.
My Gentoo box has both grep(1) and bash(1). They appear complete and do not refer the reader to the info pages (which may or may not be installed...I didn't check).
Now, that said, I do agree that the OpenBSD documentation is second to none, but the state of Linux documentation, at least on Gentoo, is not as bad as you seemed to imply.
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Thank you for your great response.
I was under the impression that quantum computing was only a threat to some public key schemes (like RSA).
Is quantum computing a threat to AES or any other popular symmetric key encryption method?
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No, I don't think that's true anymore. I know people who aren't computer savvy who have put Ubuntu on their old machines without any problems and then, after some time, ditched Windows completely.
There was no prompting, hand holding, or convincing. They did it on their own. I just learned about it after the fact.
Linux, in some forms at least (Ubuntu, Fedora, maybe some others), really is easy enough now for the Average Joe to use without having access to a guru.
Xorg will autodetect most displays and configure itself properly on the fly. I don't even think my work machine or my home laptop even has an xorg.conf.
When was the last time you messed with your X config?
Anything admin related should always target the command line first and then pretty GUI wrappers second. That way people like you don't need to use a terminal to accomplish something, but people like me can get our work done.
If a tool isn't usable on the command line, then it isn't scriptable. If it's not scriptable, then it can't be used for real work.
#!/usr/bin/python
print "Hello, World!"
Who seriously has more than 40G of operating system and applications?
Store your movies, music, etc on an external or network drive.
I don't think flash is appropriate for long term storage. I've known lots of people to back stuff up on a flash drive and then a year or two later have corrupted archives when they try to restore from it.
Anyone know why flash drives seem to degrade over time when they're not being used?
64 gigs isn't enough any more. my laptops' / partition holds 48 gigs (80 gigs still free), and my /home takes up 80 gigs (78 still free). And no, I don't have movies on it ... just programs and data.
It's curious that you say that.
My home machine has an Ubuntu partition, a Gentoo partition, and shared /home and SWAP. It has an 80G drive in it, but I've only partitioned the first 60G of it, and am only using 30G of that.
My work machine (of the last 5 years) has a 40G drive on it that I'm using about 25G of.
Operating systems, even with lots of apps, aren't particularly big. I use external drives for music, movies, etc.
Print money.
We're an R&D group, so configuration changes come fast and furious with whatever new projects come down the pipeline. Gentoo configuration is extremely transparent and easy to understand.
RedHat configuration has many levels of abstraction (designed, no doubt, to make GUI configuration tools possible) that makes hand editing of config files a nightmare. I guess this wouldn't be a problem if the GUI tools could do what you needed them to, but it never seems to work out that way.
It takes about 15 minutes to roll out a new Gentoo server (grab the appropriate disk image from the build machine, untar it to the new box, make machine specific config changes (often via a script), and boot).
We do keep some RedHat boxes around, but trying to install software that didn't come in the RPM bundle for whatever version of RHAS you've got usually forces you to build from source...and if you're building from source, why are you using RHAS?
You're not doing an emerge world on all your machines, are you?
If you've got a rack of identical machines, you use one as a build machine and push the results to the production machines.
Also, why are you doing the 'emerge world' in the first place? The only reason I can think of to rebuild the entire world is for a toolchain upgrade (gcc, glibc, etc), but you wouldn't do that on an otherwise stable production machine. You'd create a new image with the updated toolchain on your build machine and then, when you're happy with the results, push that image to your production machines.
According to the FSF, that code is either incomplete or not actually the code that runs on the device (I wasn't really sure what they were saying).
Whatever the problem, the FSF claims that the code Cisco makes available doesn't meet the requirements of the GPL.
The whole reason we like Gentoo around here is that it's a huge time saver as opposed to RedHat.
Please give a description of what you found to be so time consuming with your Gentoo servers so that we can attempt to help you.
A method that doesn't return anything is a procedure.
A method that returns something is a function.
At least that's what I was taught in my undergrad programming languages course. Oracle also seems to treat it this way (stored procedures vs stored functions).
"Windows" by itself wasn't trademarkable. "Microsoft Windows" is a trademark owned by MS.
Or something like that.
I expect the transition to run so smoothly that in 5 years, nobody will care that it happened at all.
Do you use AV software with Linux?
If not, why not? It seems like your argument is that *everyone* should use AV software regardless of OS.
disclaimer: I run linux. I don't use any AV software at all. Just a firewall.
The decision to attack is always an easy decision.
It's the decision of when and how to disengage (victorious or no) that is the harder decision.
It's interesting that you say this. I got a brand new MacBook Pro last week to replace my 5 year old Gentoo box. I tried to like OS X for 2 weeks, but today I told my manager to give it to someone else and order me a new Dell.
Yes, I know I could have installed Gentoo on the Mac, but I'd really like to have my page up/down, home, and end keys back. Also, as a vi user, that tiny esc key is a real pain.
The multi-touch trackpad is pretty sweet, though.
He does no such thing. You are free to develop, market, and sell your own code however you like.
It's only if you want to use someone else's that you need to play by their rules.
i think most parabolic trough and solar power tower installations use Stirling engines to generate electricity.
I think this is wrong. Except for the SES systems, most CST systems use a heat exchanger and a boiler.
Show me a single Linux distro which has a man page for either bash or grep, two tools you mention. For that matter, show me a single Linux distro that has documentation that is even remotely as good as OpenBSD's. OpenBSD's man pages are truly beautiful.
My Gentoo box has both grep(1) and bash(1). They appear complete and do not refer the reader to the info pages (which may or may not be installed...I didn't check).
Now, that said, I do agree that the OpenBSD documentation is second to none, but the state of Linux documentation, at least on Gentoo, is not as bad as you seemed to imply.