It should be up to GNU to announce when it upgrades its binutils, &ct. The fact that some (ok, all) distributions use GNU utilities with their releases doesn't mean Linux has to say that they are the one-and-only way of runnning a Linux kernel.
As well, for most people OS==kernel, and since this is a public announcement...
In the government/military when you say that you are "reasonably sure" of something it means that you have every reason to be sure and that the prediction will be correct barring an extremely unlikely alignment of extremely unlikely coincidences that you could not possibly hope to consider.
Unfortunately the technology that allows this costs a few hundred dollars a minute, which the US Navy can afford, the Canadian Navy can afford for non-personal messages and your average civilian cannot afford at all.
Why would this be the case? Because of the oh-so-high cost of silicon? I don't actually see any crushing need for RAM chips to be much smaller... we just need more of them.
Ah, those were the days. I had a 1200bps Hayes hooked up to my "FAT Mac" back then. I don't know how "flaming" has come to mean what it does now - that is, any form of criticism. Back then a flame was an uninhibited trashing of someone, usually written entirely in capitals and full of ANSI graphics.
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Surely not the Andy Tannenbaum?
It should be up to GNU to announce when it upgrades its binutils, &ct. The fact that some (ok, all) distributions use GNU utilities with their releases doesn't mean Linux has to say that they are the one-and-only way of runnning a Linux kernel.
As well, for most people OS==kernel, and since this is a public announcement...
In the government/military when you say that you are "reasonably sure" of something it means that you have every reason to be sure and that the prediction will be correct barring an extremely unlikely alignment of extremely unlikely coincidences that you could not possibly hope to consider.
Geoff
Unfortunately the technology that allows this costs a few hundred dollars a minute, which the US Navy can afford, the Canadian Navy can afford for non-personal messages and your average civilian cannot afford at all.
Geoff
Why would this be the case? Because of the oh-so-high cost of silicon? I don't actually see any crushing need for RAM chips to be much smaller... we just need more of them.
Geoff
Good thing you posted this anonymously so we can't hold you to that, eh?
Most of the posts, like the one I'm replying to, are by 12 year old's pretending to know something.
Oh, sure - the guy was an idiot, but the fact that you reacted with such a spaz attack is really only a discredit to you.
Geoff
Ah, those were the days. I had a 1200bps Hayes hooked up to my "FAT Mac" back then. I don't know how "flaming" has come to mean what it does now - that is, any form of criticism. Back then a flame was an uninhibited trashing of someone, usually written entirely in capitals and full of ANSI graphics.
Is that what you wanted to hear? Is that why you feel compelled to show off to the world just how "in" you are?