I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
Unfortunately this poster had the gall to go against Slashdot groupthink and suggest using a non-GPL'ed OS, and Apple at that. I demand, that in the spirit of Slashdot, this post be modded down immediately. Thank you, and God bless!
I love that URL in your sig. You should fix the space in it though. Some people might think its a broken URL and miss out on your glorious message. And that, my friend, would be a shame.
San Antonio, TX - NBA officials have taken the necessary precautions in order to keep San Antonio's twin towers, David Robinson and Tim Duncan, safe from harm. Vehicular traffic around the arena will remain limited, metal detectors will be added at all entrances and Los Angeles Lakers Center Shaquille O'Neil won't be let within 100 yards of the playing surface.
It goes good, my AC friend. I just got the k-line on IRC for a fecal Japan troll on #slashdot. Its the same URL as my sig. I posted the conversation with the cockgnome who banned me, but Slashcode, being gayer than Liberace, took out the names. I'm thought about reposting it, but fuck it.
Taco this site would run better if you let me handle it.
I just had this encounter on #slashdot on IRC. I tell you some people are just so confused about their sexuality:
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I don't use linux, so go shove it
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good for you. i loathe those lame open source users who spend a week just trying to get their modems to work. its kinda sad really.
then go whack off and get the fuck away from here
we shouldn't have to put up with assholes like you
leave.
can you come join me? maybe we can touch each other?
i like to put on women's underwear. what do you like?
stop MSGing me.
why? is your attraction to me too much for you to handle?
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Bill Kendrick writes: "ZDNet reports that Sharp is getting ready to make its Linux-based PDA available to developers in the next few weeks. They'll include a 206MHz StrongARM, 32MB (in the cheaper, developer edition), a JVM, the Opera web browser, and a slide-out keyboard. A profile of the device is available at LinuxDevices.com." We've mentioned this before, but it looks like it'll be here soon...of course no one will buy it and only shitty companies like Sharp would use Linux on their PDA. Everyone else would have a real OS.
The man is a fucking troll. He symbolizes all that is wrong with Slashdot. When I fart I'm more eloquent and better received than Jon "Columbine" Katz. He's a one-trick pony, a broken record that everyone is sick of. If Taco would boot Katz's sorry ass off Slashdot, it would show he cares about his readers. Instead, he only shows contempt.
Thank you. I plan to spin off that whole VB thing into a troll of its own, but I've been awfully busy lately. It'll premire in a few days, unless the cockgnomes who run this site decide to bitchslap me again! I said goddamn I feel just like Huey and H. Rap somedays.
but the users and sysops will have the same spirit: freedom.
All the SysOps that I knew were power hungry fucktards bent on tormenting their users to make up for their own failed lives. The only time these cockgnomes ever wanted freedom was when their parents told them to do their homework. Cockgnomes, all of them!!!
Yep. Thats the whole fun of it. Taco thinks he's found a way to goatse.cx-proof his site, but it just makes my job much much easier. Taco needs to accept that anyone posting at -1 is a troll and be done with it. Troll containment is doomed to fail, and we'll drag Slashdot down with us! Haw! Haw! Haw!
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Egg Troll is present, and ready with links to goatsex, penis birds and fecal japan!!
yht. hand.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
The future is coming on
Unfortunately this poster had the gall to go against Slashdot groupthink and suggest using a non-GPL'ed OS, and Apple at that. I demand, that in the spirit of Slashdot, this post be modded down immediately. Thank you, and God bless!
Good work, Gil Scott. Don't let the cockgnomes that run Slashdot treat you like Huey or H. Rap.
Okay you turd burglars! What have you done with my reply links???!
I love that URL in your sig. You should fix the space in it though. Some people might think its a broken URL and miss out on your glorious message. And that, my friend, would be a shame.
When will you grow up and move out of your parents basement?
San Antonio, TX - NBA officials have taken the necessary precautions in order to keep San Antonio's twin towers, David Robinson and Tim Duncan, safe from harm. Vehicular traffic around the arena will remain limited, metal detectors will be added at all entrances and Los Angeles Lakers Center Shaquille O'Neil won't be let within 100 yards of the playing surface.
Shamelessly stolen from thekindling.com
It goes good, my AC friend. I just got the k-line on IRC for a fecal Japan troll on #slashdot. Its the same URL as my sig. I posted the conversation with the cockgnome who banned me, but Slashcode, being gayer than Liberace, took out the names. I'm thought about reposting it, but fuck it.
Taco this site would run better if you let me handle it.
I just had this encounter on #slashdot on IRC. I tell you some people are just so confused about their sexuality:
/WHOIS list.
*** You were kicked from #slashdot by drdink (out)
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#slashdot unable to rejoin channel (address is banned)
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-> *drdink* Linux and its users: Gay as a football bat, or just light in the loafers? Vote now!!
I don't use linux, so go shove it
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drdink is smkelly@trinitron.psyfactor.com * Sean Kelly
drdink on @#coverage @#penny-arcade @#slashdot
drdink using area51.slashnet.org SlashNET - Baltimore, MD
drdink is an IRC Operator - Server Administrator
drdink End of
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good for you. i loathe those lame open source users who spend a week just trying to get their modems to work. its kinda sad really.
then go whack off and get the fuck away from here
we shouldn't have to put up with assholes like you
leave.
can you come join me? maybe we can touch each other?
i like to put on women's underwear. what do you like?
stop MSGing me.
why? is your attraction to me too much for you to handle?
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Just so everyone is aware, Jon Katz is a turd.
Someone always bites.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Three times zero equals ... zero! Which is about as successful as this thing will be.
Bill Kendrick writes: "ZDNet reports that Sharp is getting ready to make its Linux-based PDA available to developers in the next few weeks. They'll include a 206MHz StrongARM, 32MB (in the cheaper, developer edition), a JVM, the Opera web browser, and a slide-out keyboard. A profile of the device is available at LinuxDevices.com." We've mentioned this before, but it looks like it'll be here soon...of course no one will buy it and only shitty companies like Sharp would use Linux on their PDA. Everyone else would have a real OS.
The man is a fucking troll. He symbolizes all that is wrong with Slashdot. When I fart I'm more eloquent and better received than Jon "Columbine" Katz. He's a one-trick pony, a broken record that everyone is sick of. If Taco would boot Katz's sorry ass off Slashdot, it would show he cares about his readers. Instead, he only shows contempt.
Fuck you Jon Katz. I hope you get hit by a bus.
Thank you. I plan to spin off that whole VB thing into a troll of its own, but I've been awfully busy lately. It'll premire in a few days, unless the cockgnomes who run this site decide to bitchslap me again! I said goddamn I feel just like Huey and H. Rap somedays.
Hello new Troll. Welcome to Slashdot. I loved your TV show. Why the Emmy's never nominated to you, I'll never know. Its a shame though.
All the SysOps that I knew were power hungry fucktards bent on tormenting their users to make up for their own failed lives. The only time these cockgnomes ever wanted freedom was when their parents told them to do their homework. Cockgnomes, all of them!!!
I demand proof that you truly are the pr0n k1ng. I demand some porn be posted, at once, to slashdot. Some lesbian bondage would be nice.
Oh yeah! Egg Troll knows all about the joys of one-handed typing. Say no more!!
Feel free to join me fellow trolls.
That is some good work pr0n k1ng. Three posts in a row. You should get some kinda medal for that, or something....
Yep. Thats the whole fun of it. Taco thinks he's found a way to goatse.cx-proof his site, but it just makes my job much much easier. Taco needs to accept that anyone posting at -1 is a troll and be done with it. Troll containment is doomed to fail, and we'll drag Slashdot down with us! Haw! Haw! Haw!