This attitude gets more things tested, faster, through dozens of mostly experimental distributions used by advanced users and developers. Then you have mostly stable distributions built on top of all that experience, supporting large amounts of different devices, with little trouble. It's not just the attitude, it's a matter of raw numbers: more developers feeding more testers leads to more supported devices.
In both cases (GNU/Linux and *BSD) you have to build your systems to be supported by the OS if you want a perfectly stable system with good performance and availability, but with GNU/Linux you choose among many different options.
Isn't it insane to do performance benchmarks with power-saving options enabled!? It would make sense if you were comparing laptops, but... workstations? WTF!?
In fact it would be the perfect _server_ for most home networks! You'd have a silent and small box on your desk, and _no_ fat and loud server, anywhere.
I've just developed the Ultimate Operating System. It further reduces confusion among users by issuing a HALT instruction right after a bare minimum startup. I've successfully tested it under x86 and x86-84, and I'm looking for PowerPC 32/64 developers. GNU GPL license. Most compact kernel ever (I call it vendeko-kernel). And no problems with drivers, since it doesn't need them!
Most of my best friends are in the local LUG. I edit my e-mail with vim. I systematically GPL all my code. And all my cameras used to be automatic and digital. I didn't know much about photography, but I understood that almost all decisions were taken for me by some japanese engineer's design. And the results weren't always pleasing. Sure, I could see the subjects in my final prints, but I did not saw them as I wanted to.
So I wanted more control, the hacker way. But I didn't want to begin with a multi-thousand-dollar SLR because I knew that my limited knowledge would be the most important issue at least for the first months (i.e. for the first thousands of test pictures). Taking pictures is a camera (body + optics) + film + photographer + light + subject(s) system, and I was (well, I still am) the weakest part of it. So, being an engineer, I tried to dimension the system not to waste resources (money). When I outperform my camera, I will replace it with a better one (I like the Nikon FM3A and I've seen amazing pictures taken with a Leica MP). Until then, I will stick to the cheapest (plastic!) SLR made by Nikon. I've played around with my father's Yashica Mat 124 G, and the medium format (6x6) negatives give impressive results, but TLRs are just too heavy for me.
The FM10 is a purely mechanical camera (it only needs batteries for the exposure meter, neatly solved with just three LEDs). Wonderful pictures mean you did it well. Pathetic pictures mean you did it wrong. But at least, you did it. And you can learn from every success or mistake. I spent last weekend in Ibiza and Formentera and took about 150 pictures (Fuji Reala 100 in the sunny mornings and Ilford Delta 400 under lower light conditions, and to test B&W). I'm having them developed in a local laboratory because I don't have resources to do it myself (yet). I'll see the results tomorrow (negatives and photo cd with 16MB hi-res files) and I expect to get about a 10% of truly good pictures, worth to enlarge and print. Previous tests produced some nice pictures. They were simple pictures, but I got them just as I wanted to see them. I had to waste several rolls first, but it was due to my poor initial skills.
The FM10 performed pretty well, with absolutely no mechanical failures (and it's fully mechanical so this means no failures at all). It was light to carry all day (in continuous trips, switching from planes to boats and even rented cars, or simply walk) and it was really easy to use (no mistakes were made due to bad design).
After two weeks of careful tests and two (almost three) days of what I think it's "heavy" use it's showing light wear signs on the corners (!), loosing the "matte" champagne finish and showing a brighter material. It doesn't seem to be a real problem and I think that it will age nicely. Most important parts still look as if they were never used, and picture quality is consistent. It will be my "main" camera for the next year, and I expect it not to broke in this period because in the next 365 days I won't probably shoot more than 4x36 pictures in a weekend. I don't have the time, and It would be too expensive O:-)
Now benchmark things like environmental (annoying) noise, CPU (and cooling system) electrical power needs, CPU temperature, TFT quality, battery life, hardware and software usability (which really rises productivity), size, weight, clever case design, or (simply) sex-appeal:-P
Raw power is not the only important parameter. That Pentium4 notebook is just a piece of crap for my needs, I would buy any PowerBook G4 but not that HUGE "notebook" wanna-be (they give you four wheels and a dog strap for carrying purposes when you buy it, don't they?).
Arguments about workstations are similar, but the notebook case is pretty clear for me.
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Anyone can be a Windows admin. And that's the problem. It's insane to let ANYONE be an admin.
That's true. I live in Spain. Most museums here have a LOT of nameless objects in the basement just waiting to be identified :-(
WTF? The OS should probably be GNU/Linux or some BSD. Your question is about the interface: GUI, CLI, or something else?
This attitude gets more things tested, faster, through dozens of mostly experimental distributions used by advanced users and developers. Then you have mostly stable distributions built on top of all that experience, supporting large amounts of different devices, with little trouble. It's not just the attitude, it's a matter of raw numbers: more developers feeding more testers leads to more supported devices.
In both cases (GNU/Linux and *BSD) you have to build your systems to be supported by the OS if you want a perfectly stable system with good performance and availability, but with GNU/Linux you choose among many different options.
I turned 25 last November. So I'm older than that early, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, primitive, archaic game! Oh, my...
:'-(
Argh! I've seen... even monochrome versions with huge pixels and almost no IA in the ghosts. I'm soooooooo extremely badly anciently OLD!
I wouldn't fit among the kids at the jeriatric... I'll look for a comfortable wooden box in a museum basement
Didn't you notice the coupled pattern in kernel versions and OS versions since 10.1.1?
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
So, no Darwin 7.10, no Mac OS X 10.3.10. Darwin was fine, no security problems there ;-)
Isn't it insane to do performance benchmarks with power-saving options enabled!? It would make sense if you were comparing laptops, but... workstations? WTF!?
I only support Free Software, but if he DOES do it I will buy an Opera license when there is an stable 8.0 version for Linux/PPC :-)
If these are meant to be roman numerals, they're aiming to pretty illiterate people :-P
IMHO that's disgusting, not cooler... O:-)
In fact it would be the perfect _server_ for most home networks! You'd have a silent and small box on your desk, and _no_ fat and loud server, anywhere.
:-)
Great
> because Linux violates about 228 patents
So, is it a fact or not? Proof it or shut up :-P
I've just developed the Ultimate Operating System. It further reduces confusion among users by issuing a HALT instruction right after a bare minimum startup. I've successfully tested it under x86 and x86-84, and I'm looking for PowerPC 32/64 developers. GNU GPL license. Most compact kernel ever (I call it vendeko-kernel). And no problems with drivers, since it doesn't need them!
Most of my best friends are in the local LUG. I edit my e-mail with vim. I systematically GPL all my code. And all my cameras used to be automatic and digital. I didn't know much about photography, but I understood that almost all decisions were taken for me by some japanese engineer's design. And the results weren't always pleasing. Sure, I could see the subjects in my final prints, but I did not saw them as I wanted to.
So I wanted more control, the hacker way. But I didn't want to begin with a multi-thousand-dollar SLR because I knew that my limited knowledge would be the most important issue at least for the first months (i.e. for the first thousands of test pictures). Taking pictures is a camera (body + optics) + film + photographer + light + subject(s) system, and I was (well, I still am) the weakest part of it. So, being an engineer, I tried to dimension the system not to waste resources (money). When I outperform my camera, I will replace it with a better one (I like the Nikon FM3A and I've seen amazing pictures taken with a Leica MP). Until then, I will stick to the cheapest (plastic!) SLR made by Nikon. I've played around with my father's Yashica Mat 124 G, and the medium format (6x6) negatives give impressive results, but TLRs are just too heavy for me.
The FM10 is a purely mechanical camera (it only needs batteries for the exposure meter, neatly solved with just three LEDs). Wonderful pictures mean you did it well. Pathetic pictures mean you did it wrong. But at least, you did it. And you can learn from every success or mistake. I spent last weekend in Ibiza and Formentera and took about 150 pictures (Fuji Reala 100 in the sunny mornings and Ilford Delta 400 under lower light conditions, and to test B&W). I'm having them developed in a local laboratory because I don't have resources to do it myself (yet). I'll see the results tomorrow (negatives and photo cd with 16MB hi-res files) and I expect to get about a 10% of truly good pictures, worth to enlarge and print. Previous tests produced some nice pictures. They were simple pictures, but I got them just as I wanted to see them. I had to waste several rolls first, but it was due to my poor initial skills.
The FM10 performed pretty well, with absolutely no mechanical failures (and it's fully mechanical so this means no failures at all). It was light to carry all day (in continuous trips, switching from planes to boats and even rented cars, or simply walk) and it was really easy to use (no mistakes were made due to bad design).
After two weeks of careful tests and two (almost three) days of what I think it's "heavy" use it's showing light wear signs on the corners (!), loosing the "matte" champagne finish and showing a brighter material. It doesn't seem to be a real problem and I think that it will age nicely. Most important parts still look as if they were never used, and picture quality is consistent. It will be my "main" camera for the next year, and I expect it not to broke in this period because in the next 365 days I won't probably shoot more than 4x36 pictures in a weekend. I don't have the time, and It would be too expensive O:-)
I would answer: "There is no Next Year for SCO, you insensitive clod!"
They're talking about a 1.5", 5GB drive (not 1", 1.5GB) for $65.
T.I.A. = Técnicos de Investigación Aeroterráquea: The Funniest Secret Agents on Earth, since 1958!
Don't miss the T.I.A. club X'-D
It's not a video codec, is it?
Now benchmark things like environmental (annoying) noise, CPU (and cooling system) electrical power needs, CPU temperature, TFT quality, battery life, hardware and software usability (which really rises productivity), size, weight, clever case design, or (simply) sex-appeal :-P
Raw power is not the only important parameter. That Pentium4 notebook is just a piece of crap for my needs, I would buy any PowerBook G4 but not that HUGE "notebook" wanna-be (they give you four wheels and a dog strap for carrying purposes when you buy it, don't they?).
Arguments about workstations are similar, but the notebook case is pretty clear for me.
If it exists, it's crackable. If it exists and it's designed by Micro$oft, it's easily crackable. Don't worry.