Thanks for the nice words about LWN! Here's a special link to the LWN article on per-tty group scheduling for Slashdot folks. Hopefully a few of you will like what you see and decide to subscribe.
FWIW, I originally posted the subscriber link in question to reddit yesterday. I'm surprised to see it show up here, but I also don't mind that it has happened. I'd just as soon not see all LWN content on Slashdot as subscriber links (Slashdot readers probably agree), but this one has brought some attention and, I think, some subscribers. And that's where LWN content comes from in the first place.
In fact, there's no end of other things which could be covered here - I agree. Just keeping up with the kernel is challenge enough for the moment. The scope will be expanded when it is possible.
Actually, it's already been maintained since sometime in April. Plus it's a good complement to my other kernel-watching and reporting work, which I've been maintaining for almost ten years now. How much do you wanna bet on your forecast...?:)
This issue came up last June; LWN had a talk with maddog and covered the story back then. It's kind of surprising to see a big deal of it being made now... In short: the licensing terms have changed a bit (see the articles for the reasons) but the core rules regarding the trademark have not.
Bandwidth is far from LWN's biggest problem. Our bandwidth costs are significant, but a very small piece of the overall picture. What costs is paying people to write high-quality content.
Yes, the interview is image-heavy. We've made a version which is rather lighter for those who don't want to see all those pictures of Eric - use this link to get that version.
"people like Eric Raymond are pretty much just as poor as they ever were."
Eric had options on 150K shares. The LWN.net stocks page shows VA at $26.31, currently, meaning those options, if he still has them, are worth just under $4million, minus the (low) exercise price. That assumes he didn't sell any at a higher price, which he could have done.
He's not quite so filthy rich as he appeared last December, but I expect most of us would think that things could be an awful lot worse.
As the guy who wrote the LWN TouchPhone feature, I feel I should ought to point out a couple of things...
...starting with the fact that I wrote that feature last spring. Slashdot was a little slow on the uptake this time around...
The site is in Italian, as many have surmised.
The sad thing is that the next version of the TouchPhone is evidently going to be based on Windows CE instead. One of the developers from Prisma (who did the TouchPhone code) tells me the change is due to "Microsoft's extreme marketing power." He also points out that the CE-based phone has been nothing but talk for a long time, while the Linux-based system has been out there and working for even longer.
I plan to talk to the people at Sorgenti and do a followup once I figure out what's really going on.
Well, I thought LWN's server could take anything/. could send it...but we never tried with such an image-heavy page before. Things will be a bit slow for a bit.
Thanks also for the pile of penguin suggestions, it's going to take a long time to work through them all....
Another open source ecommerce system that was just recently announced is Yams - Yet Another Merchant System. Looks pretty cool. Info at their web page.
Since he's talking about his Congress time, I would assume that he's crowing about his support for the NSFNet, which was real. NSFNet was an important step in the creation of the net we have now, it was the backbone for some time.
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Lines of code is a terrible metric too, but LWN has both anyway.
For the curious, LWN covered the remote wipe capability back in September.
Thanks for the nice words about LWN! Here's a special link to the LWN article on per-tty group scheduling for Slashdot folks. Hopefully a few of you will like what you see and decide to subscribe.
I, too, was at that conference; my LWN article about it has been up for a week now.
FWIW, I originally posted the subscriber link in question to reddit yesterday. I'm surprised to see it show up here, but I also don't mind that it has happened. I'd just as soon not see all LWN content on Slashdot as subscriber links (Slashdot readers probably agree), but this one has brought some attention and, I think, some subscribers. And that's where LWN content comes from in the first place.
In fact, there's no end of other things which could be covered here - I agree. Just keeping up with the kernel is challenge enough for the moment. The scope will be expanded when it is possible.
Actually, it's already been maintained since sometime in April. Plus it's a good complement to my other kernel-watching and reporting work, which I've been maintaining for almost ten years now. How much do you wanna bet on your forecast...? :)
This issue came up last June; LWN had a talk with maddog and covered the story back then. It's kind of surprising to see a big deal of it being made now... In short: the licensing terms have changed a bit (see the articles for the reasons) but the core rules regarding the trademark have not.
I suppose it's obligatory for me to note that LWN's kernel summit coverage talks about the development model changes - and many other things.
Should you be curious, I've posted the slides to my talk on LWN.net.
Just FWIW, I reviewed LAD2 in LWN about a month ago.
...of course, LWN readers knew about the anticipatory scheduler back in January. We also looked at the SFQ and CFQ I/O schedulers two weeks ago.
Bandwidth is far from LWN's biggest problem. Our bandwidth costs are significant, but a very small piece of the overall picture. What costs is paying people to write high-quality content.
Eric had options on 150K shares. The LWN.net stocks page shows VA at $26.31, currently, meaning those options, if he still has them, are worth just under $4million, minus the (low) exercise price. That assumes he didn't sell any at a higher price, which he could have done.
He's not quite so filthy rich as he appeared last December, but I expect most of us would think that things could be an awful lot worse.
- The cost is for the final system, which includes an eventual replacement of the current nodes and the addition of lots more of them.
- Don't forget the I/O subsystem as well.
- Don't forget the onsite engineer
This system is a true supercomputer, and will carry that sort of price tag.I can't resist pointing out that LWN wrote an article about this cluster, complete with pictures....
The site is in Italian, as many have surmised.
The sad thing is that the next version of the TouchPhone is evidently going to be based on Windows CE instead. One of the developers from Prisma (who did the TouchPhone code) tells me the change is due to "Microsoft's extreme marketing power." He also points out that the CE-based phone has been nothing but talk for a long time, while the Linux-based system has been out there and working for even longer.
I plan to talk to the people at Sorgenti and do a followup once I figure out what's really going on.
jon
It's PHP mostly to accommodate both the monthly and "one big page" views. Plus it makes a lot of other things easy...
Thanks also for the pile of penguin suggestions, it's going to take a long time to work through them all....
(This from tomorrow's LWN)
jon
Nonetheless he has taken things a bit far...
See:
LWN 10/1/1998, 10/8/1998, and 10/15/1998 for some discussion of the episodes referenced here.
jon