IBM has bet the house on Linux. When the Itanic came out (lame duck as the early versions appeared) it had the threat of being a distruptive technology that could be used by MS to move succesfully into the 64 bit enterprise space. Not only did it threaten IBM with MS hegemony it also threatened Intel's principal collaborater on the IA-64 project HP. Which is why HP organized the rapid port of Linux to IA-64. This meant that IBM's co-operation with SCO in project Monterey became pointless and provided a good reason to drop SCO and move to Linux. The port of Linux to IBM mainframes showed a way to revitalize the old mainframe business.
IBM realized that a ubiquitous commodity OS that was not the property of any company and with the rapid evolutionary development that FOSS provides was exactly what IBM needed as its central operating system. Linux runs on every computer IBM makes. They have made the current version of AIX into AIX-5L where L stands for Linux because of its Linux compatability. They have now started pushing Linux ahead of AIX on the smaller PPC machines - for example their promotional giveaway of of SUSE Enterprise Server with some pSeries servers.
In the long run it seems probably that IBM may use Linux to challenge MS on the desktop. No wonder what we are seeing is the prelude to King King vs Godzilla.
Yes it must be a way to launder some money from the artificially inflated scox share price without it showing up as insider trading. I hope the SEC follows this up.
"BTW, wasn't their some issue a while back about code from the FreeBSD network stack being put into Linux, violating the BSD License? Does any know if that was resolved one way or the other?"
As I remember the following "Portions of this code copyright the Regents of the University of California" scrolls down the screen when you boot most Linux distros. I think that is all you have to do to conform to the BSD copyright. Its more than MS do for their rip off of the BSD TCP/IP stack
How do we know that it is not Linux code copied by SCO into Unixware.
If SCO wish to claim copyright violation they must prove that the code was in SCO owned Unix prior to to its commitment to the Linux Kernel.
This just could be a case of IP theft and GPL violation.
And of course there is probably quite a bit of BSD code in both. Is SCO going to try to revise the BSD settlement ?
The article in sciam is by Max Tegmark. Tegmark and Rees have published a number of papers together - though not specifically about the multiverse. As far as I can make out from reading most of Rees's books and some of Tegmark's papers including his highly speculative "theory of everything" one - that Rees and Tegmark have very similar views on the multiverse.
I can remember the time about eleven years ago when I first felt there was no alternative to the multiverse at least at two of the four levels Tegmark describes.
It is becoming more and more likely that Multiverse theories will make predictions that can be experimentally tested on this basis it is moving beyond metaphysics to be ordinary science.
Exactly - where I work IT has installed its first Linux server - and it is for mission critical apps. They are a windows shop - but they have been forced into it by our North American head office - they were told run it (Oracle) on *nix or no support from them. So they have 2 x 2 cpu HPaq servers and have installed RHAS. It is being administered by an IT manager - MCSE and Novell cert. with no *nix experience (He tells me he is just learning vi and I tell him to get Putty for remote administration). Of course he has the Red Hat, Oracle and our global corporate IT support. I reckon he and the servers will survive.
Still my skunkworks research labs Mandrake 8.2 server was the first Linux server in the company here in Canada. Maybe even my efforts at Linux evangelism on our CEO helped a bit - but really it seems that the companies global IT strategy is moving towards Linux. I reckon they will be buying more RHAS, RHES etc. I think Red Hat has got its marketing strategy just right for middle to large corporate customers.
What's new - we have known this since 1999 when two independent groups working on observations of type SNe 1a supernova came to the same conclusion. That the expansion of our universe is accelerating. All that NASA can provide is further confirmation.
I think for the moment an OSS solution would not yet be viable. Probably the best way to go would be to go for Lotus Notes. You can run the Domino Servers on Linux. There are no native Linux clients but you can run the Notes client under Wine. You still have a problem for people on RISC Worksatations they will still need an extra box
At work (an international corporation with about 5000 desktops) we use notes and have had none of the virus problems associated with outlook on exchange. The interface is unusual and slow but it has very powerfull calendering and groupware tools - most of our Managers live in Notes.
Your University President can't complain about being out on the edge if you go for IBM instead of MS and you you spend the money with a corporation that supports opensource rather than one that fights it.
Firstly OpenOffice.org is 1.0 now. I have been using OOo 1.0 for Win32S at work for some time it is still slow and the kerning does not look right but it is both stable and functional.
At home I have installed the Beta 641 build that comes with Mandrake 8.2 download edition - it too is stable and functional (but the fonts look disgusting even if you use the MS ones) - no segfaults though..
Abiword 1.0 from (rpm from Mandrake cooker) is not it segfaults if you try to save RTF files.
What OOo build are you using 621 or something ancient like that?
>How about software for better voting procedures? (Nah - that one has faded from the radar.)
How about software that automaticall excludes the votes from blacks, the poor and registerd democrats -Dubya would like that but naah ! he has relatives to do that for him anyway.
Yeah I just installed the flash plugin so I could look at the IBM Tux animations - now all these sites are wasting bandwidth sending flash animated ads.
You don't need special software to connect Mandrake Linux to an ISP.
All the Internet Wizard requires for a graphical setup is the ISP's IP address, a username and password. Oh yes you have to click a radio box to choose a modem connection or for the type of broadband connection. Easier than connecting Windoze.
The prices for identically equipped 1.3 GHz Duron Systems at walmart are $499 for the Win XP Home Ed. suystem and $428 for a Mandrake Linux 8.2 OEM ed. system complete with Sun SO 6.0 to and Apache to run your website. A saving of $71 or 14.23 % as calculated in OpenOffice Calc
So to be able to do the same things on the win box using all M$ software you would need to buy MS Office XP and upgrade to Win XP pro. Which would cost a lot.
BTW Mandrake 8.2 is an awesome desktop ! but I'm prejudiced I use it on my home system.
Try Mandrake - I just loaded Mandrake 8.2 a fortnight ago. The installation was a breeze - easier than win 98. It detected all of my hardware (easy as there is no CD-RW or scanner). Everything works. It is a great desktop.
I have been using Linux for eighteen months now first Caldera 2,2 (from a remaindered book) then RH 6.1 (in the back of a library book I had when my machine fried and I needed a Linux with a more recent version of Xfree to cope with my new system).
Now I just decided to upgrade to a recent Linux with a good desktop orientation - Mandrake seemed to be the one - and I am really pleased. I definitely find it to be a better desktop than my old win 98SE and the NT4 I use at work.
I guess I am not your everyday user. I am not an IT professional but I have been using computers for over 25 years starting with a PDP 8 minicomputer used as a Mass-Spectrometry data system. I cut my teeth on Unix with a Sun 3 workstation while I was a middle aged grad student a decade ago, its a long time ago but you still seem to retain the stuff.
However I am convinced that any competent user should be able to install and maintain a recent Linux distro without much problem as long as they are willing to learn and RTFM.
"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate sized planet orbiting around a very average star" - Stephen Hawking
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Dartmouth Basic, Fortran IV, Z80 assembler, ISO, Python.
Over the years
I dont think it was the right order I wish had learnt C first - but I gues I might still be preferring Python now
It is a textbook that deals with concepts not just dry facts and it is written by the other genius named Linus that the 20th century produced.
IBM realized that a ubiquitous commodity OS that was not the property of any company and with the rapid evolutionary development that FOSS provides was exactly what IBM needed as its central operating system. Linux runs on every computer IBM makes. They have made the current version of AIX into AIX-5L where L stands for Linux because of its Linux compatability. They have now started pushing Linux ahead of AIX on the smaller PPC machines - for example their promotional giveaway of of SUSE Enterprise Server with some pSeries servers.
In the long run it seems probably that IBM may use Linux to challenge MS on the desktop. No wonder what we are seeing is the prelude to King King vs Godzilla.
Yes it must be a way to launder some money from the artificially inflated scox share price without it showing up as insider trading. I hope the SEC follows this up.
The EU as a whole has a GDP of about the same as the US.
As I remember the following "Portions of this code copyright the Regents of the University of California" scrolls down the screen when you boot most Linux distros. I think that is all you have to do to conform to the BSD copyright. Its more than MS do for their rip off of the BSD TCP/IP stack
This just could be a case of IP theft and GPL violation.
And of course there is probably quite a bit of BSD code in both. Is SCO going to try to revise the BSD settlement ?
You pay the big bucks for all the fancy ERP stuf
I can remember the time about eleven years ago when I first felt there was no alternative to the multiverse at least at two of the four levels Tegmark describes.
It is becoming more and more likely that Multiverse theories will make predictions that can be experimentally tested on this basis it is moving beyond metaphysics to be ordinary science.
Still my skunkworks research labs Mandrake 8.2 server was the first Linux server in the company here in Canada. Maybe even my efforts at Linux evangelism on our CEO helped a bit - but really it seems that the companies global IT strategy is moving towards Linux. I reckon they will be buying more RHAS, RHES etc. I think Red Hat has got its marketing strategy just right for middle to large corporate customers.
>China could become the new super power. China is the new super power.
What's new - we have known this since 1999 when two independent groups working on observations of type SNe 1a supernova came to the same conclusion. That the expansion of our universe is accelerating. All that NASA can provide is further confirmation.
And remeber if you liked the look of CDE - then with Gnome you can install XFce and configure to look just like CDE running under Solaris.
So why then is server consolidation the big trend nowadays ?
Too damn right.
Yes !
Before logging on to Slashdot I just printed a few documents PDF in OpenOffice. Works a treat - not just a WP facility.
At work (an international corporation with about 5000 desktops) we use notes and have had none of the virus problems associated with outlook on exchange. The interface is unusual and slow but it has very powerfull calendering and groupware tools - most of our Managers live in Notes.
Your University President can't complain about being out on the edge if you go for IBM instead of MS and you you spend the money with a corporation that supports opensource rather than one that fights it.
At home I have installed the Beta 641 build that comes with Mandrake 8.2 download edition - it too is stable and functional (but the fonts look disgusting even if you use the MS ones) - no segfaults though..
Abiword 1.0 from (rpm from Mandrake cooker) is not it segfaults if you try to save RTF files.
What OOo build are you using 621 or something ancient like that?
How about software that automaticall excludes the votes from blacks, the poor and registerd democrats -Dubya would like that but naah ! he has relatives to do that for him anyway.
Yeah I just installed the flash plugin so I could look at the IBM Tux animations - now all these sites are wasting bandwidth sending flash animated ads.
All the Internet Wizard requires for a graphical setup is the ISP's IP address, a username and password. Oh yes you have to click a radio box to choose a modem connection or for the type of broadband connection. Easier than connecting Windoze.
So to be able to do the same things on the win box using all M$ software you would need to buy MS Office XP and upgrade to Win XP pro. Which would cost a lot.
BTW Mandrake 8.2 is an awesome desktop ! but I'm prejudiced I use it on my home system.
Mandrake 8.2 will install the Truetype fonts from your Windows partition with just a click of your mouse in yhe Mandrake Control Centre.
I have been using Linux for eighteen months now first Caldera 2,2 (from a remaindered book) then RH 6.1 (in the back of a library book I had when my machine fried and I needed a Linux with a more recent version of Xfree to cope with my new system).
Now I just decided to upgrade to a recent Linux with a good desktop orientation - Mandrake seemed to be the one - and I am really pleased. I definitely find it to be a better desktop than my old win 98SE and the NT4 I use at work.
I guess I am not your everyday user. I am not an IT professional but I have been using computers for over 25 years starting with a PDP 8 minicomputer used as a Mass-Spectrometry data system. I cut my teeth on Unix with a Sun 3 workstation while I was a middle aged grad student a decade ago, its a long time ago but you still seem to retain the stuff.
However I am convinced that any competent user should be able to install and maintain a recent Linux distro without much problem as long as they are willing to learn and RTFM.
"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate sized planet orbiting around a very average star" - Stephen Hawking