Some of us "Linux Cronies" work in heterogeneous environments and have used EVERY major OS there ever was and ever will be. As an MSDN member, I probably had Windows 7 before you did. I personally did not "like" it, but it seems pretty solid. However, my Solaris, Macintosh, Gentoo and even FreeBSD boxes ALL write to (fiber san) disk significantly faster than my most tweaked out Windows images. Which really sucks for me, because the main app I support is Adobe CS5!
Because you want it to use for 3D design, music/film production etc.
I wish this weren't true! A lot of people have post the question "which 'killer app' would make Linux desktop adoption take off?" I think it should be Adobe CS6.
You are a moron. There is no problem with the Linux driver model. And just for shits and giggles, I'll happily now inform you that I am writing this post on a DELL Precision 490...which today I updated to the latest Nvidia driver and Xserver in one command. And no, it did not shit itself.
If this becomes a relatively cheap reality in the next 30 years
How rich are you? This sub weighs about 8,000lb, so it might just have room for -A- passenger. A reeaeeaaally rich passenger.
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Since 1999 I've said "I will be using Enlightenment 0.16 until it won't compile anymore." Over a decade later, it's still everything I need and want. Gnome does nothing but get in the way and slow my box down. However, I still support Gnome anyway I can. It's a clear-cut winner over KDE (IMHO), and a great starting place for anyone who has ever used a point-and-click computer of any sort. Anyway, my point is, if GNU/Linux is ever gonna end up on the desktops that "Joe Middleman" or "Susie Q. Receptionist" use, Gnome is the vehicle. Power-users should revel in the fact that they CAN rip it out and load something more to their liking, and spend less energy bashing Gnome for not fitting into their "uber" world. The fact is most people just don't care how many clicks it takes to get somewhere or how many pixels of real-estate they are losing to some widget. They just want the computer to do its job consistently and not require too many brain cells to navigate.
Now I suppose if you had some nice admin tool GUI that allows you to point and click to select a set of actions to perform on each machine or group of machines
Teh editors do not, in fact, suck. They merely assumed that you--a wiz-kid, tech-mag reader--would be smart enough to perform a simple evaluation before jumping into a topic.
1) Check title for prefixes. This one says "book review".
2) Do I know what Solr (or ) is? If yes, read article. Maybe post a comment. If no, see step 3 if still interested.
3) Google/wiki the technology until you are ready answer "yes" to step 2.
Where was his harness and shock-cord? I have seen contractors get BIG whammies for letting workers "strap out", and this at only 35ft. This guy should have fallen about eight feet and suffered a cracked rib or two from the shock-cord snapping him a bit, but a fall to the death? At a NASA facility? That would require CCCPish levels of idiocy.
Who says ReiserFS is dead? I've never stopped using it from the minute it was merged into Linux. I have some large, 4+ year old ReiserFS SAN volumes that are loaded with files, healthy, fast, and have never left production. I use it exclusively on my desktops despite Gentoo's warnings about "little maintenance" going on. Who cares? If it works, it works. I'm sure there are plenty of others who feel the same.
I stand by Vi. I still use E16 on all my desktops. I still use WM Dockapps. Hell, I still use BitchX, even. This will probably never change for me, as long as these tools still compile and run!
I really miss hearing Linus' "pronunciation of Linux" sound-byte when setting up sound cards. However, I do NOT miss making boot floppies. I don't miss Linuxconf either, as it (in my eyes) started the trend towards huge, nasty config files.
As for the "dumbing down" of Linux, I went the other way and started using things distros like Gentoo that keep the "old school" Linux feel..
Slashdot is REALLY going downhill... I remember when posting a link on/. meant that the server it lived on was dead in 15 minutes. Now I have to see "101" posts get modded up? Sheez...
Slashdot Mirror
Delete this treasonous piece of tripe.
RTFA so you won't sound like you know diddly squat. They even put that part in bold for the "TL:DR" types.
Umm... You see a CPU surge, so you destroy the virtual session and assume it's a worm? That's an admin style both lazy and deranged.
Some of us "Linux Cronies" work in heterogeneous environments and have used EVERY major OS there ever was and ever will be. As an MSDN member, I probably had Windows 7 before you did. I personally did not "like" it, but it seems pretty solid. However, my Solaris, Macintosh, Gentoo and even FreeBSD boxes ALL write to (fiber san) disk significantly faster than my most tweaked out Windows images. Which really sucks for me, because the main app I support is Adobe CS5!
Because you want it to use for 3D design, music/film production etc.
I wish this weren't true! A lot of people have post the question "which 'killer app' would make Linux desktop adoption take off?" I think it should be Adobe CS6.
Thank you, moonbender, for that "highly critical" retort. The AC who posted the grandparent obviously didn't READ any of the Secunia advisories.
You are a moron. There is no problem with the Linux driver model. And just for shits and giggles, I'll happily now inform you that I am writing this post on a DELL Precision 490...which today I updated to the latest Nvidia driver and Xserver in one command. And no, it did not shit itself.
Anybody else notice this guy mentioned SECURE and COMODO in the same sentence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyTRhw8qmHE
I love reading these "expert opinion" posts written by the guy selling white-box PC's next to the Mexican restaurant in the local strip mall.
If this becomes a relatively cheap reality in the next 30 years
How rich are you? This sub weighs about 8,000lb, so it might just have room for -A- passenger. A reeaeeaaally rich passenger.
Since 1999 I've said "I will be using Enlightenment 0.16 until it won't compile anymore." Over a decade later, it's still everything I need and want. Gnome does nothing but get in the way and slow my box down. However, I still support Gnome anyway I can. It's a clear-cut winner over KDE (IMHO), and a great starting place for anyone who has ever used a point-and-click computer of any sort. Anyway, my point is, if GNU/Linux is ever gonna end up on the desktops that "Joe Middleman" or "Susie Q. Receptionist" use, Gnome is the vehicle. Power-users should revel in the fact that they CAN rip it out and load something more to their liking, and spend less energy bashing Gnome for not fitting into their "uber" world. The fact is most people just don't care how many clicks it takes to get somewhere or how many pixels of real-estate they are losing to some widget. They just want the computer to do its job consistently and not require too many brain cells to navigate.
Now I suppose if you had some nice admin tool GUI that allows you to point and click to select a set of actions to perform on each machine or group of machines
Novell Zenworks does exactly that.
..because after all, 640k should be enough for everyone.
TFA is totally slashdotted..
Psst: Anandtech.com is ---> that way.
Did anybody else but me think about "RedHat 4.2" when you first saw this title? Another oddity: there were exactly 42 comments..
Was this just "click-mongering"? Glad I have ads disabled...
Teh editors do not, in fact, suck. They merely assumed that you--a wiz-kid, tech-mag reader--would be smart enough to perform a simple evaluation before jumping into a topic. 1) Check title for prefixes. This one says "book review". 2) Do I know what Solr (or ) is? If yes, read article. Maybe post a comment. If no, see step 3 if still interested. 3) Google/wiki the technology until you are ready answer "yes" to step 2.
Where was his harness and shock-cord? I have seen contractors get BIG whammies for letting workers "strap out", and this at only 35ft. This guy should have fallen about eight feet and suffered a cracked rib or two from the shock-cord snapping him a bit, but a fall to the death? At a NASA facility? That would require CCCPish levels of idiocy.
Who says ReiserFS is dead? I've never stopped using it from the minute it was merged into Linux. I have some large, 4+ year old ReiserFS SAN volumes that are loaded with files, healthy, fast, and have never left production. I use it exclusively on my desktops despite Gentoo's warnings about "little maintenance" going on. Who cares? If it works, it works. I'm sure there are plenty of others who feel the same.
It's working fine for me. It doesn't seem to be slashdotted.
It's been years since I've seen a site truly slashdotted.
I think I'm just hooked on ASCII art. ;-)
I stand by Vi. I still use E16 on all my desktops. I still use WM Dockapps. Hell, I still use BitchX, even. This will probably never change for me, as long as these tools still compile and run! I really miss hearing Linus' "pronunciation of Linux" sound-byte when setting up sound cards. However, I do NOT miss making boot floppies. I don't miss Linuxconf either, as it (in my eyes) started the trend towards huge, nasty config files. As for the "dumbing down" of Linux, I went the other way and started using things distros like Gentoo that keep the "old school" Linux feel..
Slashdot is REALLY going downhill... I remember when posting a link on /. meant that the server it lived on was dead in 15 minutes. Now I have to see "101" posts get modded up? Sheez...