I won't compare apples to oranges, but we have two DNS servers in my shop. One running Windows and one running Linux. Both have gone down. The Windows one from bad updates, brute force attacks, and just running to long without a reboot. The Linux box from hard drive and hard drive controller failure and someone kicking the network cable out.
On top of that we have a Linux box runing our student network (Nocat) and that only goes down when we take it down reguadless to the amount of P2P and streaming media traffic the students push though it. Win 2k3 is the most solid OS Microsoft has put out, but I have yet to see a case where you can go more than 45 days without a reboot for something.
Sound just like was we were all saying at the orginal Playstation Launch. If it shows a leap forward to what people are use to people will buy it. But if you have to worry about game disks flying out at a moments notice then they have problems. I'll have one by this summer for sure though.
The idea of patents has to be legally revised or done away with. I can see protecting the IP of persons with specific code someone has developed, or even an algorithm, but a software concept? Come on.
I believe it is the right of every hacker, developer, and engineer to tinker or reverse engineer code and devices computer, mechanic, or otherwise. Thats how competition is created and inovation is born. I mean what if no one but Ford could create cars or Sony could create walkmen. We would all be driving in Model Ts listening to 15 minutes of music on tapes the size of a betamax cassettes in car radios (Mono I might Add) that take up the entire trunk.
Washington is going to have to get hip to this soon. All code (open or otherwise) could be subject to the enforcement of vague patents files years ago by some company hoping to hit the lotto or have someone develop for them for free. I didn't get all the patent fuss in Europe before but I see it now. This could drive the software business out of the US in my opinion. But hell, I also though Auto-Man was a great TV series.
When Microsoft first bought a Unix license from SCO at the start of this whole thing everyone knew it was just funding to help them file suit with IBM. So just is just another cash investment of SCO can continue to make itself look a fool, give bad press to IBM, Linux, and all other Unixes as a whole, and to make Microsoft look like the most stable and dependable Business OS out in the market.
I will say this though. I believe IBM and the Open Source Community is in the right, but all this would go away if IBM or even SUN would just by SCO as a whole. Sometime you have to weight if its better to be right or if you can, stopping the bleeding. Even if this does go to trial, there isn't anything, even the Unix license, that is going to make up for all this bad press AIX, IBM, Linux, and Unix will have to suffer through.
"If the Palm does everything that I need it to, why would I care that a PocketPC can do stuff I don't need (like play MP3s and jerky, low-res videos)? "
I would have to fully agree with this statement. I started out using Windows CE on a Casiopeia 100. There were pleanty of fun stuff to load on there. Image software, mp3, video, etc. But for some reason, every so often, the address book would crash the handheld. That is unacceptable. I use it for work, the fun stuff is secondary.
I now use a Sony Clie 610C and I get my work done. Do I miss the eye candy apps, sure I do. But there are work arounds. I just learned that I need the apps that I need to get work done to work all the time (address book, calendar, task list). Everything else comes after.
It was my first linux experience and I have stuck with it since 1.1.58. That's why I guess I think the install is so good. Because it is some much better than back then:-). I am planning to get back into some real coding so the glibc upgrade is cool to me so I won't have to learn the difference of one over the other, plus I can really use threads now. And I can use more software now. Can't wait to finally run Mozilla source. Guess I will have to install gnome to now huh:-(.
Too bad he didn't state how important the speed of the exchange of knowledge and ideas is. "The Network is the Comptuer", but "The Faster the Better "!!! T1s for everybody. (come on xDSL and Cable)
I have to agree. libc5 is old but solid. And all the other distributions have libc5 runtime support anyway. The biggest things using glibc right now are star office 5 and oracle. Mozilla is still egcs and gcc 2.7.2.x based (libc5 if I am correct). All you really need is the runtime support because not everyone has converted to glibc. God, how many non Linux systems are still using Xwindows 5:)
The more Al Gore speaks, the more I wish Bob Dole was running in 2000. I mean dang, first he and his wife want to restrict what we can buy in music stores, now he wants to be the father of the information age.
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I won't compare apples to oranges, but we have two DNS servers in my shop. One running Windows and one running Linux. Both have gone down. The Windows one from bad updates, brute force attacks, and just running to long without a reboot. The Linux box from hard drive and hard drive controller failure and someone kicking the network cable out.
On top of that we have a Linux box runing our student network (Nocat) and that only goes down when we take it down reguadless to the amount of P2P and streaming media traffic the students push though it. Win 2k3 is the most solid OS Microsoft has put out, but I have yet to see a case where you can go more than 45 days without a reboot for something.
Sound just like was we were all saying at the orginal Playstation Launch. If it shows a leap forward to what people are use to people will buy it. But if you have to worry about game disks flying out at a moments notice then they have problems. I'll have one by this summer for sure though.
The idea of patents has to be legally revised or done away with. I can see protecting the IP of persons with specific code someone has developed, or even an algorithm, but a software concept? Come on.
I believe it is the right of every hacker, developer, and engineer to tinker or reverse engineer code and devices computer, mechanic, or otherwise. Thats how competition is created and inovation is born. I mean what if no one but Ford could create cars or Sony could create walkmen. We would all be driving in Model Ts listening to 15 minutes of music on tapes the size of a betamax cassettes in car radios (Mono I might Add) that take up the entire trunk.
Washington is going to have to get hip to this soon. All code (open or otherwise) could be subject to the enforcement of vague patents files years ago by some company hoping to hit the lotto or have someone develop for them for free. I didn't get all the patent fuss in Europe before but I see it now. This could drive the software business out of the US in my opinion. But hell, I also though Auto-Man was a great TV series.
When Microsoft first bought a Unix license from SCO at the start of this whole thing everyone knew it was just funding to help them file suit with IBM. So just is just another cash investment of SCO can continue to make itself look a fool, give bad press to IBM, Linux, and all other Unixes as a whole, and to make Microsoft look like the most stable and dependable Business OS out in the market.
I will say this though. I believe IBM and the Open Source Community is in the right, but all this would go away if IBM or even SUN would just by SCO as a whole. Sometime you have to weight if its better to be right or if you can, stopping the bleeding. Even if this does go to trial, there isn't anything, even the Unix license, that is going to make up for all this bad press AIX, IBM, Linux, and Unix will have to suffer through.
Just my opinion though.
"If the Palm does everything that I need it to, why would I care that a PocketPC can do stuff I don't need (like play MP3s and jerky, low-res videos)? "
I would have to fully agree with this statement. I started out using Windows CE on a Casiopeia 100. There were pleanty of fun stuff to load on there. Image software, mp3, video, etc. But for some reason, every so often, the address book would crash the handheld. That is unacceptable. I use it for work, the fun stuff is secondary.
I now use a Sony Clie 610C and I get my work done. Do I miss the eye candy apps, sure I do. But there are work arounds. I just learned that I need the apps that I need to get work done to work all the time (address book, calendar, task list). Everything else comes after.
Try feeling that way when you have your helpdesk phones ringing off the hook for a service you don't even support.
It was my first linux experience and I have stuck with it since 1.1.58. That's why I guess I think the install is so good. Because it is some much better than back then :-). I am planning to get back into some real coding so the glibc upgrade is cool to me so I won't have to learn the difference of one over the other, plus I can really use threads now. And I can use more software now. Can't wait to finally run Mozilla source. Guess I will have to install gnome to now huh :-(.
Too bad he didn't state how important the speed of the exchange of knowledge and ideas is. "The Network is the Comptuer", but " The Faster the Better "!!!
T1s for everybody. (come on xDSL and Cable)
I have to agree. libc5 is old but solid. And all the other distributions have libc5 runtime support anyway. The biggest things using glibc right now are star office 5 and oracle. Mozilla is still egcs and gcc 2.7.2.x based (libc5 if I am correct). All you really need is the runtime support because not everyone has converted to glibc. God, how many non Linux systems are still using Xwindows 5 :)
The more Al Gore speaks, the more I wish Bob Dole was running in 2000. I mean dang, first he and his wife want to restrict what we can buy in music stores, now he wants to be the father of the information age.