How about asking how to make Linux balance the outgoing traffic on all interfaces. I hat to say it but NT (arghh) has software to do this from third parties and so do most bigtime OS's. I'm sure Sun's Solaris also has IP balancing software of all kinds too.
I don't even know what to think of this. Reminds me of an old saying,.. "Crazier things have and will continue to happen". What's next? Microsoft ports Office to Linux? Linus gives up Linux to start a horse breeding ranch? These are some crazy times.
Too bad Dell didn't do this a year ago. I had a customer that was still using a gaggle of IBM PS/2 Model 50's. For those of you who don't know, that was an 8MHz 8088 proc, no hard drive and an 8 bit bus. They even had these things networked using a NE2000 ethernet adapter and IBM PC DOS 3.1. I took one after the upgrade but it lost it's novelty value after I realized that it couldn't run Linux.
Dammit each and every time I get pissed at a/. story, Hemos is always the one who posts it.
How many times in one day can the same story be posted ? I get the feeling sometimes that Hemos doesn't even read/., and instead just posts stories blindly.
What the hell have we been talkign about all morning. It's sure is a good think that Rob built the filter stuff into/., because I'll be using it to filter anything that Hemos posts.
We use Oracle almost exclusively at my company. My thoughts about Oracle on Linux is that 3rd party apps are lacking (hot backup, etc). And that if your application gets big at all, you'll have real trouble making Linux work on 64 processor boxes (if you succeed at all).
Sun can handle this without any problem. Also, as a shop who runs a very large Oracle application on non-Sun hardware, I can tell you that it is no fun trying to Oracle to fix something on their non-favorite platform.
New patches, fixes and product introductions for Oracle server will always happen first on Sun and sometimes that can be a real buzzkill.
it doesn't matter, because they still have to release the code under the GPL.
Maybe you should understand the facts before you profess to know them. Writing software for Linux in no way obligates you to release the software under the GPL or give your source code away for free.
This is a choice made by RedHat to release their software under the GPL. There is nothing that forces RedHat (or any other vendor) to release programs they write under the GPL, modifications to the kernel or system libraries are a different story though.
Personally I think it's a stretch to say the Redhat may be the next MS. It might be more accurate to say they'll be the next MS of the free software world.
The practice of being in the free software business is just too different to put them on the same playing field as Microsoft, who focus on just te bottom line, FUD and hardball tactics.
I don't see Redhat as being the strongarm of the free software world, but I also don't think that Red Hat's philosophy is at all in line with Linus'.
Linus says that his personal drive for Linux is guided by technical excellence and nothing more. I don't see any technical excellence being driven by Redhat with their 'not quite their yet' tools, stranger than strange file locations and other general 'do it their way' crap.
And yes I am a bit bitter about having to upgrade all ny boxes to redhat only becuase none of the commercial software (Oracle) ran on my Slackware boxes that I'd had for years.
A big kick ass linux supporting company like Sun goes all out to try and do something good for the world of computing (anb bad for M$), and Sengan is trying to figure out a way to pimp them out of a few bucks.
Why anyone woul want to screw Sun out of a few bucks by loopholing their binary clause is beyond me.
Slashdot (and Sengan especially) just lowered a notch on the what's cool scale.
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News about the "Open Source" Kaffe distribution
can always be found at:
http://www.kaffe.org/
and also at:
http://www.transvirtual.com/
And mailing lists? ...
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It's more of a new question, rather than an answer to the original post.
--Aaron
How about asking how to make Linux balance the outgoing traffic on all interfaces. I hat to say it but NT (arghh) has software to do this from third parties and so do most bigtime OS's. I'm sure Sun's Solaris also has IP balancing software of all kinds too.
--Aaron
It's about time ...
Can anybody get me in on the friends and family thing ? I'll take a few hundred shares.
--Aaron
I don't even know what to think of this. Reminds me of an old saying, .. "Crazier things have and will continue to happen". What's next? Microsoft ports Office to Linux? Linus gives up Linux to start a horse breeding ranch? These are some crazy times.
Too bad Dell didn't do this a year ago. I had a customer that was still using a gaggle of IBM PS/2 Model 50's. For those of you who don't know, that was an 8MHz 8088 proc, no hard drive and an 8 bit bus. They even had these things networked using a NE2000 ethernet adapter and IBM PC DOS 3.1. I took one after the upgrade but it lost it's novelty value after I realized that it couldn't run Linux.
--Aaron
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Dammit each and every time I get pissed at a /. story, Hemos is always the one who posts it.
/., and instead just posts stories blindly.
/., because I'll be using it to filter anything that Hemos posts.
How many times in one day can the same story be posted ? I get the feeling sometimes that Hemos doesn't even read
What the hell have we been talkign about all morning. It's sure is a good think that Rob built the filter stuff into
Thanks, Aaron Newsome
Sun can handle this without any problem. Also, as a shop who runs a very large Oracle application on non-Sun hardware, I can tell you that it is no fun trying to Oracle to fix something on their non-favorite platform.
New patches, fixes and product introductions for Oracle server will always happen first on Sun and sometimes that can be a real buzzkill.
My $1.59 worth (if that).
--Aaron Newsome
Maybe you should understand the facts before you profess to know them. Writing software for Linux in no way obligates you to release the software under the GPL or give your source code away for free.
This is a choice made by RedHat to release their software under the GPL. There is nothing that forces RedHat (or any other vendor) to release programs they write under the GPL, modifications to the kernel or system libraries are a different story though.
These damn AC's piss me off sometime.
--Aaron Newsome
The practice of being in the free software business is just too different to put them on the same playing field as Microsoft, who focus on just te bottom line, FUD and hardball tactics.
I don't see Redhat as being the strongarm of the free software world, but I also don't think that Red Hat's philosophy is at all in line with Linus'.
Linus says that his personal drive for Linux is guided by technical excellence and nothing more. I don't see any technical excellence being driven by Redhat with their 'not quite their yet' tools, stranger than strange file locations and other general 'do it their way' crap.
And yes I am a bit bitter about having to upgrade all ny boxes to redhat only becuase none of the commercial software (Oracle) ran on my Slackware boxes that I'd had for years.
Thanks, Aaron Newsome.
Does Tk have a grid widget like in VB ?
Thanks, Aaron Newsome
Don't forget the mp3stereo mailing list where we discuss such issues as exactly how to go about building something like this.
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And no there is currently not an archive of all past articles (waiting on my DSL line).
Thanks, Aaron Newsome
I can't beleive I'm reading this.
A big kick ass linux supporting company like Sun goes all out to try and do something good for the world of computing (anb bad for M$), and Sengan is trying to figure out a way to pimp them out of a few bucks.
Why anyone woul want to screw Sun out of a few bucks by loopholing their binary clause is beyond me.
Slashdot (and Sengan especially) just lowered a notch on the what's cool scale.
--Aaron Newsome
Rob, I'm in full agreement with you about FM. It is one of the best sites on the net (next to /. of course).
I found the new look to be downright cool.
--Aaron Newsome