You're a sysadmin looking to get yourself some job security, aren't you?
10 points for going BOFH
-50 points for being overzealous and fixing problems that don't exist.
The only festering wound here is inane programmers who don't know how to code. If you experience memory management difficulties with your C code, then you can count yourself as one of the above. In C, the programmer is the memory management. If its festering... well, you get the picture. Don't blame your deficiencies on your tools.
Oh, and poster. What can we expect of the quality of open source programs who don't rely on an expensive crutch to hold their insufficient code together? Well, we can expect them to segfault, fail silently, or work well. I don't get too many segfaults or silent failures from oss code, so you put the puzzle pieces together.
Honestly, there is only one way to find out. Set up a blog, and see if they come. The 'slashdot community' has no idea as a whole what kind of environment you're setting it up in. We have no idea how folks in your community behave, think, and act. We have no idea about your traditions, and the other fun things that make up the soul of a community. Why are you asking us? Maybe next we should as the Canadian medical industry whether a social healthcare system will work in Zimbabwe. Afterall, they know all about health care and Zimbabwe, right?
Signifigantly better? Let me bring you in on a secret. Distributions have very few factors that set them apart from each other. They are all built on the same core. When it boils down to it, packaging, software bundling, support, and configuration management are the pieces that matter. RedHat has excellent offerings for all of the above, but don't kid yourself, they aren't "signifigantly better" than anyone else. Its more like neck and neck.
Weaker market presence? Suse has sales surpassing Redhat's, in Europe. TurboLinux literally owns a good portion of asia and southeast asia, Caldera has a formidable behind the scenes corporate presence in the United States, and Conectiva is unrivaled in South America. Expand your scope a bit. RedHat is suddenly outnumbered by quite a margin.
Lets not even touch "well established". IBM, a corporation with a century of history, is well established. RedHat and Linux, are not.
Right. So, when will Evolution stop requiring me to install an entire GTK and GNOME (You wanna whine about SQL dependancies? Try GNOME dependancies. Megs upon Megs of bloated libraries and other bullfuckingshit that I don't want to maintain on my fucking workstation.... WELL I GET PISSED GODDAMNIT!) support environment just so I can ready my boffing mail? If evolution's mail handling features are so great, why weren't they wrapped in a single lovely library (or set of libraries) that I can use to write other mail clients with?
I think this review rocks. Its something different from the usual geek/tech/sci-fi drone. I don't think I would have caught this movie down at the theatre if Katz hadn't mentioned it, and it is definately worth seeing. This kind of culture is hard to find these days, and movies like this get me excited about getting up and going. Woot.
Do we have to justify all email we send now? Must we have business to send an email? Who defines what is justified business under law? Who enforces it?
Read the article, and read the history of this case. This is a situation where a former employee was trying to communicate what he felt (and many other employees feel) to be a clear and present danger to all Intel employees. That may or may not be justified, but to call it digital trespass is to bury your head in the sand in a fit of uninformed rightousness. This is not a spam incident.
My free speech penetrates into your very soul if you're walking through the public market where my soapbox is, and the internet is the biggest soapbox around.
I read this article a few days ago. I thought it was funny. Basically, Slashdot didn't read the article before posting again. The synopsis of this boils down to "Slashdot says Winmag says SecurityFocus says NT is more secure than Linux.", except SecurityFocus never said that. Doh. Winmag instead just wrote an article counting the total number of exploits for Linux and NT, and gave the OS with the lowest number the best "secure" rating. Of course, since these stats came from the NTBugtraq list, it must be SecurityFocus sanctioned *cough*.
Your poster knew this. Way to go poster. You've successfully trolled the frontpage of Slashdot.
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This is insightful? *gag*
Come on, being fired for having porn at work is not exactly discrimination.
I'm glad you're doing your part to further the cause of litigating our society to death though.
You're a sysadmin looking to get yourself some job security, aren't you? 10 points for going BOFH -50 points for being overzealous and fixing problems that don't exist.
The only festering wound here is inane programmers who don't know how to code. If you experience memory management difficulties with your C code, then you can count yourself as one of the above. In C, the programmer is the memory management. If its festering... well, you get the picture. Don't blame your deficiencies on your tools.
Oh, and poster. What can we expect of the quality of open source programs who don't rely on an expensive crutch to hold their insufficient code together? Well, we can expect them to segfault, fail silently, or work well. I don't get too many segfaults or silent failures from oss code, so you put the puzzle pieces together.
Honestly, there is only one way to find out. Set up a blog, and see if they come. The 'slashdot community' has no idea as a whole what kind of environment you're setting it up in. We have no idea how folks in your community behave, think, and act. We have no idea about your traditions, and the other fun things that make up the soul of a community. Why are you asking us? Maybe next we should as the Canadian medical industry whether a social healthcare system will work in Zimbabwe. Afterall, they know all about health care and Zimbabwe, right?
Signifigantly better? Let me bring you in on a secret. Distributions have very few factors that set them apart from each other. They are all built on the same core. When it boils down to it, packaging, software bundling, support, and configuration management are the pieces that matter. RedHat has excellent offerings for all of the above, but don't kid yourself, they aren't "signifigantly better" than anyone else. Its more like neck and neck.
Weaker market presence? Suse has sales surpassing Redhat's, in Europe. TurboLinux literally owns a good portion of asia and southeast asia, Caldera has a formidable behind the scenes corporate presence in the United States, and Conectiva is unrivaled in South America. Expand your scope a bit. RedHat is suddenly outnumbered by quite a margin.
Lets not even touch "well established". IBM, a corporation with a century of history, is well established. RedHat and Linux, are not.
meep. hehe
Right. So, when will Evolution stop requiring me to install an entire GTK and GNOME (You wanna whine about SQL dependancies? Try GNOME dependancies. Megs upon Megs of bloated libraries and other bullfuckingshit that I don't want to maintain on my fucking workstation. ... WELL I GET PISSED GODDAMNIT!) support environment just so I can ready my boffing mail? If evolution's mail handling features are so great, why weren't they wrapped in a single lovely library (or set of libraries) that I can use to write other mail clients with?
I think this review rocks. Its something different from the usual geek/tech/sci-fi drone. I don't think I would have caught this movie down at the theatre if Katz hadn't mentioned it, and it is definately worth seeing. This kind of culture is hard to find these days, and movies like this get me excited about getting up and going. Woot.
Do we have to justify all email we send now? Must we have business to send an email? Who defines what is justified business under law? Who enforces it? Read the article, and read the history of this case. This is a situation where a former employee was trying to communicate what he felt (and many other employees feel) to be a clear and present danger to all Intel employees. That may or may not be justified, but to call it digital trespass is to bury your head in the sand in a fit of uninformed rightousness. This is not a spam incident. My free speech penetrates into your very soul if you're walking through the public market where my soapbox is, and the internet is the biggest soapbox around.
I read this article a few days ago. I thought it was funny. Basically, Slashdot didn't read the article before posting again. The synopsis of this boils down to "Slashdot says Winmag says SecurityFocus says NT is more secure than Linux.", except SecurityFocus never said that. Doh. Winmag instead just wrote an article counting the total number of exploits for Linux and NT, and gave the OS with the lowest number the best "secure" rating. Of course, since these stats came from the NTBugtraq list, it must be SecurityFocus sanctioned *cough*.
Your poster knew this. Way to go poster. You've successfully trolled the frontpage of Slashdot.