I dunno, i can see IBM's position. Owning a unix is expensive... you need to pay programmers & support staff, etc. IBM can rest on their name & continue to sell their big iron, only now, the support is passed off to RedHat et. al. Remember, of course, that the three best-supported linux architectures are IBM POWER (PPC), x86, and ia64... after convincing significant enough people to switch to linux, they can shift over to just convincing people to buy their servers, after all... your software would only require a recompile for PPC, and the OS would remain the same.
Vserve everything with 2 or 3 real servers, you can handoff transactions to two of them, apply a kernel patch or whatever, online it, offline one of the bad machines to fix, then offline the final one.... no service interruption at all
But porting office to macos doesn't hurt their FUD about how anything that touches opensource is somehow corrupted by it.
Plus, I think they want to be seen as the only OS for commodity hardware. Eg, you *could* buy from apple, but you'll be paying twice as much for the hardware than it's worth, and it's an artist's workstation... not for "real work" (note to apple fanbois: I don't actually believe this, my problem with apple is the same problem i have with MS and it has nothing to do with quality)
"I think this will eventually catch up to Sun also"
Except sun is still innovative.
dtrace, ZFS and zones on the software end (Solaris runs on sparc, x86 and amd64), UltraSPARC T1 on the hardware end (coolthreads, look it up). That said, they even offer linux machines if that's what floats your (phb's) boat.
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Enter gentoo...
Strip out the crap, leave only what you need.
No, but games coders do...
"Now that it only requires a recompile instead of a complete subsystem rewrite for a lot of code"
Really? wow, last I checked macos didn't use the win32 API, or directx, or any other number of things that make macos not windows.
I dunno, i can see IBM's position. Owning a unix is expensive... you need to pay programmers & support staff, etc. IBM can rest on their name & continue to sell their big iron, only now, the support is passed off to RedHat et. al. Remember, of course, that the three best-supported linux architectures are IBM POWER (PPC), x86, and ia64... after convincing significant enough people to switch to linux, they can shift over to just convincing people to buy their servers, after all... your software would only require a recompile for PPC, and the OS would remain the same.
Paul Falstad probably has a couple times
Vserve everything with 2 or 3 real servers, you can handoff transactions to two of them, apply a kernel patch or whatever, online it, offline one of the bad machines to fix, then offline the final one.... no service interruption at all
Just guessing, but they probably don't care until the mainstream press picks up on it. People still buy their crap-ware regardless
and when I can review that, I'll concider Apple a viable choice. Until that point, it's Solaris, BSD and Linux
But porting office to macos doesn't hurt their FUD about how anything that touches opensource is somehow corrupted by it.
Plus, I think they want to be seen as the only OS for commodity hardware. Eg, you *could* buy from apple, but you'll be paying twice as much for the hardware than it's worth, and it's an artist's workstation... not for "real work" (note to apple fanbois: I don't actually believe this, my problem with apple is the same problem i have with MS and it has nothing to do with quality)
No, but the UltraSPARC T1 is free as in speech (but not beer, though it is still really cheap).
Ever think the problem isn't linux, it's Gentoo?
I like gentoo, but it's not for n00bs... I don't know why people assume it is
Except that the "anti-sex" interpretation of the Bible isn't the only one. The Bible's full of sex. Song of Soloman, for an obvious example
It's not so much a matter of "the Bible says X, so we believe in X" as it is "we want Y, let's find support in the Bible".
You're right, a good artist knows when to remove things instead of just adding
When I want a painting of a UI then, I'll talk to GNOME. Since I want to actually *USE* the UI, I'll stick with kde
whereas gnome just cripples your abililty to answer altogether... it was confusing users, you see?
I dunno, seems we'd be more free under the ayatolah sometimes... he wouldn't have the technology to track us like that
"I think this will eventually catch up to Sun also"
Except sun is still innovative.
dtrace, ZFS and zones on the software end (Solaris runs on sparc, x86 and amd64), UltraSPARC T1 on the hardware end (coolthreads, look it up). That said, they even offer linux machines if that's what floats your (phb's) boat.
I don't work for Sun or anything either, btw.
Now try it on an ultrasparc.
After trying it 4 times, I FINALLY got a kernel compiled on my ultra/2. on bootup, it gave me panics.
After that, i was so fed up I downloaded an opensolaris CD.
You could always use slackware.
or gentoo...
OH NO! We should be able to inspect ALL our source code... If only there were some sort of operating system where all the source was open...
If only you could inspect the source code! That's the only way to be sure
without a concept of 0, you have no concept of manipulations involving limits approaching 0, so, yes... we should be thanking the arabs for calculus.
No, they really don't compile at all.
Well, since win32 codecs are not free software, they don't compile on my system.
WMV? You serious?
How the hell am I supposed to watch that?
Hmm... okay, I was wrong.