I call BS. I doubt very seriously that any lawyer would be up to date with Microsoft FUD. I would think it more likely that in about 6 months, (when they are googling to figure out what this OpenSource GPL thing is all about) that they will stumble on this *new* information.
I think it very possible that a large company would be scared off by this, however, getting an email to remove opensource software is not only incorrect, since this was specifically about Linux, but highly doubtful. Good luck removing all of the opensource code. Especially all the code that sits on your Solaris systems, your HPUX and your AIX systems. And if you *really* work for a financial organization, you have plenty of those systems sitting around.
I agree that AIX is often a better solution for stable mission critical applications, but the performance tuning or micropartitioning can also happen with Linux on System p and System i. (formerly pSeries and iSeries). Take a look at http://penguinppc.org/ppc64/
I don't mean to troll but.... You accuse the author of making a sweeping statement because the hardware he uses does not work so the distro is buggy. However, you mention that it works fine on YOUR machine. Isn't that also a sweeping statement based on YOUR hardware. Personally, I would like to see some hardware comparisons. However, it would take more time and resources than most of these review writers have or are able to provide.
But it does not translate well today. My buddies and I have one set up for nostalgia when we play poker. When someone goes out (runs out of money), they are sent to play Atari. It's fun for about 5 mins, but I find I kept swapping out cartridges hoping for the excitement of my youth. Never happens. I am not a "gamer", so I can only imagine how bored an avid gamer would be with Pac-Man, Combat, or Yars Revenge.
I know this seems very paranoid, but I thought it was interesting to see the advertising effort for malware protection on the same page as the article. It got me thinking about the size of the industry to prevent spyware as opposed to the size of the hacker community. The amount of money that has been made protecting from hackers is in the billions. Just an observation that opens up all kinds of conspiracy theories.
I own a Honda Insight. I was able to get over 100MPG for about 30 miles. (It just happened to be the 30 miles down bigbear mountain. But my mpg meter hit three digits. W00t!)
I have to disagree with ya there. Sure, they are a commercial company and their goal is to make money. Big Surprise! However, in this effort, they have contributed a substantial amount of code to the kernel, gnome, and numerous other projects. I'm as uneasy about a deal with MS as anyone, but to start bashing them because they are a commercial company and they contribute to Linux is a bit short sighted.
I don't like the way they are handling Gnome
If you do not like, what they have done with gnome, then you can contribute or use KDE, XFCE, twm, etc.
appease to Windows "converted" users
Are you kidding me? Softening the transition (which is an option btw, you can change this), would be a smart move for all linux developers. If we create a completely foreign system, then it is that much harder to get people to use, promote and contribute to linux. Otherwise we are left with a select few and linux stays in the basement.
bundling Mono, pfff
I hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of users that are locked in because they rely on.NET apps. If you supply mono, then there is a better opportunity they can transition their current custom apps and use linux.
Novell may not be my favorite Linux company, but you can't discount the contribution because of unfounded "fears" about "some day they will ruin linux". If they walked away today, I would at least say "Thank you for all that you had contributed". Without companies like, IBM, Novell, RedHat, Canonical and others, linux would still be where it was at 5-6 years ago. Today it is a viable alternative to MS Windows for the desktop, and is replacing Solaris, AIX and HP-UX in record numbers.
I'm not so sure about that. I drive a hybrid car. Basically the car is powered mostly by the electic motor/batteries (hard drive), but uses gas engine assist (flash drive) when accelerating or taking off. There is a mechanism within the hybrid drives to switch between hard drive and flash drive based on usage. This is similar with a hybrid car. I understand that analogies often are used incorrectly, but in this case it is not completely off target.
Sort of...
I agree that you can limit hardware needs, but you also have a central point of failure. If the host OS or local storage goes, you now have lost multiple systems instead of one. One issue I have seen is having external scsi support. At least with Xen, you cannot dynamically allocate a pci scsi card to each node. This may also hold true for fiber channel cards.(not sure). That means, no offsite tape backups for the individual nodes and no access to SAN storage through the virtual nodes.
The reason for the size of a laptop is it needs to be large enough to be useful. The reason for handhelds is they are portable and fit in a pocket. This device appears to be in the middle and not server either purpose. Is this a joke or a hoax?
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No matter how good the games are, most kids (given the opportunity) would rather play baseball, basketball, or soccer. It's too bad that because of fear of kidnappings, etc. kids are not allowed to just "Go out and play in the yard" like when I was a kid.
At least not until they are older. But by then I think a lot are 'hooked' on video games and would rather stay indoors.
I mean sure, if you're willing to sell your exclusive odd-architecture personal computer with only the software your company has managed to port for $10k a piece... Yeah, it'd work. I'm not sure who'd buy it, though. And you'd have to sell quite a few to just break even on the cost of your programmers porting to this architecture.
Wasn't that NeXT?
I agree that they probably have better redundancy than the average user, however, if they are taking the responsibility for my data, they should be making backups that can recover in case of data loss. RAID is good, however if a file is corrupt, or deleted, then it is corrupt on multiple disks or deleted from multiple disks.
Are they willing to take on the added cost of backup/storage. If so, how far back to the backups go? How often is the backup run?
If my data is local, then it's my responsibility to make backups.
I can see that by the article, they see this technology being used for possible backup storage. However, writing a DVD is pretty slow. It would take days to just write a terabyte. Also, it would need to support some way of streaming the data to the disc. Otherwise you have one really big iso to create.
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I call BS. I doubt very seriously that any lawyer would be up to date with Microsoft FUD. I would think it more likely that in about 6 months, (when they are googling to figure out what this OpenSource GPL thing is all about) that they will stumble on this *new* information. I think it very possible that a large company would be scared off by this, however, getting an email to remove opensource software is not only incorrect, since this was specifically about Linux, but highly doubtful. Good luck removing all of the opensource code. Especially all the code that sits on your Solaris systems, your HPUX and your AIX systems. And if you *really* work for a financial organization, you have plenty of those systems sitting around.
I agree that AIX is often a better solution for stable mission critical applications, but the performance tuning or micropartitioning can also happen with Linux on System p and System i. (formerly pSeries and iSeries). Take a look at http://penguinppc.org/ppc64/
I don't mean to troll but.... You accuse the author of making a sweeping statement because the hardware he uses does not work so the distro is buggy. However, you mention that it works fine on YOUR machine. Isn't that also a sweeping statement based on YOUR hardware. Personally, I would like to see some hardware comparisons. However, it would take more time and resources than most of these review writers have or are able to provide.
But it does not translate well today. My buddies and I have one set up for nostalgia when we play poker. When someone goes out (runs out of money), they are sent to play Atari. It's fun for about 5 mins, but I find I kept swapping out cartridges hoping for the excitement of my youth. Never happens. I am not a "gamer", so I can only imagine how bored an avid gamer would be with Pac-Man, Combat, or Yars Revenge.
I know this seems very paranoid, but I thought it was interesting to see the advertising effort for malware protection on the same page as the article. It got me thinking about the size of the industry to prevent spyware as opposed to the size of the hacker community. The amount of money that has been made protecting from hackers is in the billions. Just an observation that opens up all kinds of conspiracy theories.
I own a Honda Insight. I was able to get over 100MPG for about 30 miles. (It just happened to be the 30 miles down bigbear mountain. But my mpg meter hit three digits. W00t!)
With a quote like that, maybe you should worry about slashdotters ;-)
This is just a big dharma project logo.
I have to disagree with ya there. Sure, they are a commercial company and their goal is to make money. Big Surprise! However, in this effort, they have contributed a substantial amount of code to the kernel, gnome, and numerous other projects. I'm as uneasy about a deal with MS as anyone, but to start bashing them because they are a commercial company and they contribute to Linux is a bit short sighted.
I don't like the way they are handling GnomeIf you do not like, what they have done with gnome, then you can contribute or use KDE, XFCE, twm, etc.
appease to Windows "converted" usersAre you kidding me? Softening the transition (which is an option btw, you can change this), would be a smart move for all linux developers. If we create a completely foreign system, then it is that much harder to get people to use, promote and contribute to linux. Otherwise we are left with a select few and linux stays in the basement.
bundling Mono, pfffI hate to break it to you, but there are a lot of users that are locked in because they rely on .NET apps. If you supply mono, then there is a better opportunity they can transition their current custom apps and use linux.
Novell may not be my favorite Linux company, but you can't discount the contribution because of unfounded "fears" about "some day they will ruin linux". If they walked away today, I would at least say "Thank you for all that you had contributed". Without companies like, IBM, Novell, RedHat, Canonical and others, linux would still be where it was at 5-6 years ago. Today it is a viable alternative to MS Windows for the desktop, and is replacing Solaris, AIX and HP-UX in record numbers.
Humm..... I don't quite follow
tyrannyA democracy seems to be the least tyrannical. What's your solution?
You could always try OpenOffice Calc.
Your comments were well thoughtout, concise, and without hysteria or bias.
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I'm not so sure about that. I drive a hybrid car. Basically the car is powered mostly by the electic motor/batteries (hard drive), but uses gas engine assist (flash drive) when accelerating or taking off. There is a mechanism within the hybrid drives to switch between hard drive and flash drive based on usage. This is similar with a hybrid car. I understand that analogies often are used incorrectly, but in this case it is not completely off target.
Sort of... I agree that you can limit hardware needs, but you also have a central point of failure. If the host OS or local storage goes, you now have lost multiple systems instead of one. One issue I have seen is having external scsi support. At least with Xen, you cannot dynamically allocate a pci scsi card to each node. This may also hold true for fiber channel cards.(not sure). That means, no offsite tape backups for the individual nodes and no access to SAN storage through the virtual nodes.
The reason for the size of a laptop is it needs to be large enough to be useful. The reason for handhelds is they are portable and fit in a pocket. This device appears to be in the middle and not server either purpose. Is this a joke or a hoax?
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No matter how good the games are, most kids (given the opportunity) would rather play baseball, basketball, or soccer. It's too bad that because of fear of kidnappings, etc. kids are not allowed to just "Go out and play in the yard" like when I was a kid. At least not until they are older. But by then I think a lot are 'hooked' on video games and would rather stay indoors.
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This seems really good when you consider a typical disk drive has a life of about 2 years. :-(
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I agree that they probably have better redundancy than the average user, however, if they are taking the responsibility for my data, they should be making backups that can recover in case of data loss. RAID is good, however if a file is corrupt, or deleted, then it is corrupt on multiple disks or deleted from multiple disks.
Are they willing to take on the added cost of backup/storage. If so, how far back to the backups go? How often is the backup run?
If my data is local, then it's my responsibility to make backups.
I wish I had mod points to give you. You are right on target in my book.
Yeah, but they'd have to have it on a line or something..
I can see that by the article, they see this technology being used for possible backup storage. However, writing a DVD is pretty slow. It would take days to just write a terabyte. Also, it would need to support some way of streaming the data to the disc. Otherwise you have one really big iso to create.