Nobody cares about "the core of the OS". Apart, perhaps, from the media industry that needs it to be locked down for them. What people care about is what applications you can run on it.
I can assure you from a sysadmins point of view, security & stability play a far bigger role.
I guess the question is "is it too little too late?"
M$ lost quiet alot of their userbase to Apple & Linux, will they get those users to switch back for Windows 7??
The sad thing is that this release is just M$ playing catch up with other platforms packed with things they should have done a long time ago, if you compare it with other platforms it doesn't actually offer anything revolutionary in the core of the OS.
did it ever??
BTW: "You are an idiot."
may sound like an insult, but from time to time it's just an accurate diagnosis:-) Totally, the world is obsessed by the war on terror, when is the war on stupidity going to start?
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It's an internet appliance!!
HP "innovates" ;)
NetBSD 5 is out today & OpenBSD 4.5 is out tomorrow, it's going to be busy weekend for some. :D
+1 CARP is definitely the way forward for scenarios like this.
Nobody cares about "the core of the OS". Apart, perhaps, from the media industry that needs it to be locked down for them. What people care about is what applications you can run on it.
I can assure you from a sysadmins point of view, security & stability play a far bigger role.
ok, but hasn't that been dropping over the last couple of years??
try reading the whole sentence up to the comma ;)
I guess the question is "is it too little too late?" M$ lost quiet alot of their userbase to Apple & Linux, will they get those users to switch back for Windows 7?? The sad thing is that this release is just M$ playing catch up with other platforms packed with things they should have done a long time ago, if you compare it with other platforms it doesn't actually offer anything revolutionary in the core of the OS. did it ever??
I'd wish he'd drop dead but that may just make him a bigger "hero" for more RMS goodness see: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/12/10/486713 *sigh* The guy is nothing short of mental
your router may not support IPv6 but your machine does, stick the router into bridge mode & use pppoe on your machine to initiate the connection.
"Cisco - empowering the internet generation" or not in this case!
best to stick with OpenBSD then!
followed up with the expansion pack virtual republican vice-president
when are they bringing out virtual republican presidential candidates?
so by 2015 we'll have finally migrated to windows vista??
a Mac
What training have you received for dealing with patch tuesday??
have they found any teenage mutant ninja turtles down there??
so sit back & suffer?? I dont mean drugs!
& you tell people *BSD is dead cause you don't know any better? :)