It seemes interesting that Microsoft seemes to think the anti-trust trials are almost over, and it's back to it's old tactics.
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This sounds like some M$ minion trolling as hard as they can.
The big difference between so called commerical "real" OS and the open "free" OS, is choice and certainary.
Choice as and when you wish upgrade to the next stable version you can. (Personally I'm waiting for 2.2.x, x > 4, before I upgrade the kernal.)
Even when you don't chose to upgrade at every announcement, becuase of the very active and public development you can feel that things are always improving.
This sense of movement is typified by the 'ld core' bug in the early 2.2.x kernal. Discovered and fixed within half a day. I can image a "real" OS vendor, spending the first month before getting the fix through both marketing and the layers.
This all provides a deep certainary, and security, that the underlying OS is the best it can be and, if not, will be improved quickly and in a public manner.
Maybe Sun have releasied that they can't hope to support certain areas and stay competative with linux in the long run. Maybe they have decided to focus on the high ground, SMP and large scale server applications. Allowing linux to take over, what will be it's by default in the long term anyway. (Because of it's development model)
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It seemes interesting that Microsoft seemes to think the anti-trust trials are almost over, and it's back to it's old tactics.
This sounds like some M$ minion trolling as hard as they can.
The big difference between so called commerical "real" OS and the open "free" OS, is choice and certainary.
Choice as and when you wish upgrade to the next stable version you can. (Personally I'm waiting for 2.2.x, x > 4, before I upgrade the kernal.)
Even when you don't chose to upgrade at every announcement, becuase of the very active and public development you can feel that things are always improving.
This sense of movement is typified by the 'ld core' bug in the early 2.2.x kernal. Discovered and fixed within half a day. I can image a "real" OS vendor, spending the first month before getting the fix through both marketing and the layers.
This all provides a deep certainary, and security, that the underlying OS is the best it can be and, if not, will be improved quickly and in a public manner.
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Maybe Sun have releasied that they can't hope to support certain areas and stay competative with linux in the long run. Maybe they have decided to focus on the high ground, SMP and large scale server applications. Allowing linux to take over, what will be it's by default in the long term anyway. (Because of it's development model)