Well for the same reasons major corporations are slow to adapt Linux into their UNIX shops and stick with SUN, HP, and IBM. Lack of reliability (reliability as in I mean Intel based hardware, go buy a sparc for reliability) and support. Not that it isn't reliable, don't get me wrong. But both MySQL and Linux are awesome as being sturdy, fast, cheap, GPL... But are kinda missing some crucial functionality. Being a UNIX Admin for a large brokerage in Boston I could never justify rolling out a bunch of Linux's w/ MySQL, I'd be flogged. With MySQL lacking some integrity checking, etc. etc. we all know. And Linux missing process accounting for all commands and kernel coredumps upon panic I can't have my data rely of these things. Glad to see we have JFS now though! Again, don't get me wrong. I love Linux and MySQL, use em' all the time. But when it boils down to mission critical reliability I wouldn't even think about the above as options. But they're growing up and gaining functionality all the time. Soon we'll see a day when they are up to snuff for things outside of small business or personal use. I can't wait to see the day...
BTW, why is everyone so gung-ho about Oracle as a substitute? I'd hate to think all of/. are fools of the marketing dept at Oracle. Sybase is a much better option to Oracle so many more situations... Sure the company has/had problems internally, but it's still a better product that's faster and with less overhead and doesn't crash nearly as much.
PC's really haven't done anything for the average user. They haven't sped up productivity and just made things more complicated and frustrating. Now we have a bunch of people running around using Word and admining NT and they all think they know how it all works. When really it's just made life harder for those that really do have to work, integrate, and develop systems for real actual purposes because ot can calculate an incomprehesable times faster then the smartest mathematician or scientist. I cringe eveytime I have to deal with the average NT Admin or MS developer because they are usually incompitant idiots that know how to click on radio buttons and click on down drop downs instead of understanding how and why things work. Things have been oversimplified to the point of having brain is optional to use a computer. It hasn't really increased productivity either. So now we have given access to the average idiot to cruise for porn, play games, made programming a total no brainer and yet still be totally bloated and unstable, spend half the day editing word docs instead of writing it down on paper when it would have taken an eigth of the time anyway, flooded the world with several slightly different yet the same closed source verions of an incompatiable OS that doesn't even worth with it's half brother OS'sand crashes, and a bunch of stupid games that should have stayed on the Nintendo in the first place, and 6 month product cycles wher you have to go out and buy new hardware to make your latest MS/MS compatiable product work.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to be a luddite. But, just because we can do something doesn't always mean we should... Now most of the planet (including most goverments) around the world are at the mercy of one company's marketing whims. For that matter why don't we all go out and buy cars with the hoods welded shut and have only one company that provides this service for everyone.
I don't think MS has made the world a better place, they've just made it more complicated. Computers serve a purpose and I think it's been lost somewhere down the road. Having a MS desktop on every desk or a MS portable in every barcoded little hand shouldn't be the goal. We should remeber that it was free information and freedom of speech and technological innovation.
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Those shells have NOTHING to do with Linux other then the distributers compiled the source and put it on the CD. You can compile the source on Solaris for those also... No unice is perfect to use straight out of the box. Linux just gives it all to you on a CD cuz if they're gonna make you pay for something free they might as well give you a whole bunch of it. You can add those shells via packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com/ on Solaris.
I never do this but I have to today. Thank you for putting up with me. Argh! I am so friggen sick of idiots! Quad Xeons faster then 30proc Sparc 6500?!?!? IDE Raid outperforms FIBRE and SCSI?!?!? Where are these people comign from? What friggen benchmarks have they run? Who told them this crap? Ahh, ignorance must be bliss. I want the drungs their on...
I've been both and it depends on the situtation... And being managment that it is and trying to spend their money as wisely as possiable we all know the situation. Whenever I've been a salary employee it seems I have to be on call w/ pager, come in on weekends, eat sleep drink breath the project. And basically get screwed in general. Though time off is paid, etc. But I hardly ever get it when I have it. Now that I'm a hourly consultant I hardly am ever asked to do OT and work anything beyond 9-5. I find my self being more concious if how I spend my time at work, etc. I get paid a pant load more now though. I hate timesheets but the great trade off is that they NEVER even think of asking me to work OT, now that I would love to. I myself after weighing the pro's and con's love being hourly... Mo' money and less work.
Planning is one thing, but let me know when someone can hack your toaster... If simple everyday devices are put on the net for some reason they should be like every other computer, behind firewalls. Let's not start philosophy over things that might or could years from now. If his coffee maker is online, I wanna know where go got it then.
That was one of the worse articles I've ever read. They had some guy that seemed pretty clueless and stumbling through an install giving his impression of it. OpenBSD is very simple to install. I hate these people that are laerning Linux and think that's UNIX. It's close but not quite, it just gives you a taste of how things work, though not properly. I'm all for people learning Linux and getting into the UNIX way of things, but they should have some experience under their belt before they start doing reviews on Linux.com, come on! It's a shame it was shown is such a bad light, it really is a great OS.
Your insane then. OpenBSD supports almost every type of processor ever thought of. And these guys that write the drivers write stuff for the most obscure of devices for the most obscurest of hardware. Linux is pretty mainstream in comparison...
If only he knew of the irony in his satire... I've been a Perl user for many years now. But I refuse to follow comp.lang.perl.misc because of Tom and 90% of the Perl community that is exactly like him. That being an angry egomaniac and making cutting remarks. I don't know, is it lack of maturity, sex deprivation, or way to many hours in front of the computer that he forgets entirely about social skills?
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BTW, why is everyone so gung-ho about Oracle as a substitute? I'd hate to think all of /. are fools of the marketing dept at Oracle. Sybase is a much better option to Oracle so many more situations... Sure the company has/had problems internally, but it's still a better product that's faster and with less overhead and doesn't crash nearly as much.
my $.02...
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to be a luddite. But, just because we can do something doesn't always mean we should... Now most of the planet (including most goverments) around the world are at the mercy of one company's marketing whims. For that matter why don't we all go out and buy cars with the hoods welded shut and have only one company that provides this service for everyone.
I don't think MS has made the world a better place, they've just made it more complicated. Computers serve a purpose and I think it's been lost somewhere down the road. Having a MS desktop on every desk or a MS portable in every barcoded little hand shouldn't be the goal. We should remeber that it was free information and freedom of speech and technological innovation.
Those shells have NOTHING to do with Linux other then the distributers compiled the source and put it on the CD. You can compile the source on Solaris for those also... No unice is perfect to use straight out of the box. Linux just gives it all to you on a CD cuz if they're gonna make you pay for something free they might as well give you a whole bunch of it. You can add those shells via packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com/ on Solaris.
I never do this but I have to today. Thank you for putting up with me. Argh! I am so friggen sick of idiots! Quad Xeons faster then 30proc Sparc 6500?!?!? IDE Raid outperforms FIBRE and SCSI?!?!? Where are these people comign from? What friggen benchmarks have they run? Who told them this crap? Ahh, ignorance must be bliss. I want the drungs their on...
It works on Netscape for Solaris also... =)
I've been both and it depends on the situtation... And being managment that it is and trying to spend their money as wisely as possiable we all know the situation. Whenever I've been a salary employee it seems I have to be on call w/ pager, come in on weekends, eat sleep drink breath the project. And basically get screwed in general. Though time off is paid, etc. But I hardly ever get it when I have it. Now that I'm a hourly consultant I hardly am ever asked to do OT and work anything beyond 9-5. I find my self being more concious if how I spend my time at work, etc. I get paid a pant load more now though. I hate timesheets but the great trade off is that they NEVER even think of asking me to work OT, now that I would love to. I myself after weighing the pro's and con's love being hourly... Mo' money and less work.
you forgot parsin... =)
Planning is one thing, but let me know when someone can hack your toaster... If simple everyday devices are put on the net for some reason they should be like every other computer, behind firewalls. Let's not start philosophy over things that might or could years from now.
If his coffee maker is online, I wanna know where go got it then.
Ditto.
That was one of the worse articles I've ever read. They had some guy that seemed pretty clueless and stumbling through an install giving his impression of it. OpenBSD is very simple to install. I hate these people that are laerning Linux and think that's UNIX. It's close but not quite, it just gives you a taste of how things work, though not properly. I'm all for people learning Linux and getting into the UNIX way of things, but they should have some experience under their belt before they start doing reviews on Linux.com, come on! It's a shame it was shown is such a bad light, it really is a great OS.
Toshiba 6x w/ 32Meg G400, Hollywood+ decoder, SB Live and Cambrdige Soundworks Desktop Theatre 5.1... Not a single problem...
Your insane then. OpenBSD supports almost every type of processor ever thought of. And these guys that write the drivers write stuff for the most obscure of devices for the most obscurest of hardware. Linux is pretty mainstream in comparison...
Weird, I thought it was just me. I'm using Netscape on Solaris also...
If only he knew of the irony in his satire... I've been a Perl user for many years now. But I refuse to follow comp.lang.perl.misc because of Tom and 90% of the Perl community that is exactly like him. That being an angry egomaniac and making cutting remarks. I don't know, is it lack of maturity, sex deprivation, or way to many hours in front of the computer that he forgets entirely about social skills?
Congrats guys, keep up the good work!