Sure, with todos like organizing one of the worlds biggest distributions' release, cooperating and coordinating couple of hundred developers, supporting 11 architectures, and so on. It's not like getting yourself some bread to eat, it's a giant community.
Staff? Volunteer, or in a few cases salaried by companies with an interest in Debian.
erm and those would be for example...? I mean the whole debian projekt has 40 thou. If Firms would be that interested, the project wouldn't lack the money. I think this is a typical humann attitude problem again. Hey, we can use this nice piece of software for free! Mwhahaha! Idiots, we'll make lots of money based on their effort! Erm, but what is this silly verb 'donating'?
Conferences? Sponsored by those same companies.
I seriously doubt this.
Noone ever (ok, or really few does) invites any Debian-related staff/thing in the commercial world. They want RH. They wan SuSE. They want support, to be able to blame someone if things go wrong. They want someone outside of the firm to carry technical responsibility.
True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer. With a less argumentative subject, I'd probably have agreed with most of what you said. From a theoretical (and aesthetical) standpoint linux looses. If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project: the fact is that it wasn't and still isn't. Linux wins heavily on points of being available now.
unfortunately, popularity of a kernel doesnt depend only on the technical advantages.
Soon, you'll be able to download the OpenSolaris distribution. For now -- just to prove that we're serious -- we've made available the source code to DTrace; it's available here under the CDDL License.
sure. This stands on that page since months or so. Where is the code?
Having a licence required would cause the PC/Internet access industry to plummet. And because of lack of consumer investment, progress in newer technologies would slow down.
Right. Then do not let users without the licence have windows. Give them an all-singing-all-dancing linux, without root, upgraded remotely.
Ya, spyware sucks ass. But I'll just let the free market take care of this. Until then, I'm willing to take the good with the bad.
The real problem here is, that without some bad-designed OS-like thingie the 'bad' wouldn't even exist. With a licence like this people at least would have an idea about the net and computing, and wouldnt fall for the lets_sell_our_OS_and_lie_abotu_it_how_cool_it_is firms^H.
You realise that the G5 is Power architecture don't you?
erm, yes, you could be right there I guess.
And, only Sun's low-end systems are x86_64. The high-end Sun Fire beasts are still SPARC-based.
Yes, yet. But I am not anymore sure how long, I mean have a look at how the old/great/noble Sun with his lordly Sparcs, and high-ends is rushing to make business out of the x86/linux market. I mean I hope I am wrong with this, and do really wish a sparc/solaris(10) comeback.
Come on. The diversity in HW-business has lost lots. Have a look at NetBSD's supported architectures. The most of them are sadly dead. HP gave up alpha, Sun is panicing and running to x86_64/Linux, the only two players that managed to bring something new are IBM, and the Power-architecture, and Apple with the G5-way. But Intel's Itanium is quite dead, though AMD is coming up, the Opteron is worth a look. Give them a little time, let diversity have a comeback.
An achievment in travel? You mean we will be all flying around alone, around the world, with jet-flights? Sure. FYI The Wright brothers brought something what came out to be really useful. But this guy? What does he show us? In which way the future? How do you compare that? Apples to oranges?
And now rethink that about stupidity. You can also consider 'zealotry' and 'bullshitting'.
...what kind of sense does it have to fly around the earth? Just to get into the Guinness recors-book? Come on. Wasting fuel, a pile of money, for one entry. pitiful.
Or since they are into management they forgot to keep up with the always changing skills/features, so "What you mean we have no mainframes?" "What you mean I should use ssh instead of telnet?, why should I?" "What you mean by Debian?" etc.
If you want to lead an IT, you'll need a manager with competent technical skills, or he will not understand, why to switch from Exchange or win2k serverpark to something else.
Or the same thing, he agrees to use linux, since 'everyone uses it' - but he only allows RH.
If that's PR, that goes about insinuating M$, and then let them shine found perfectly unguilty, and just fallen into the filthy trap some bad-bad F/OSS hax0r set up, then...
The real question is here - does it make it on puprose or just by mistake?
and then...
do I want an anti-spyware tool which intentionally marks non-m$ software with the TO_BE_REMOVED flag?
do I want an anti-spyware tool which is so shit that by mistake marks non-m$ software with the TO_BE_REMOVED flag?
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OK, I'm convinced - sorry, I was a bit prejudice-driven.
Sure, with todos like organizing one of the worlds biggest distributions' release, cooperating and coordinating couple of hundred developers, supporting 11 architectures, and so on. It's not like getting yourself some bread to eat, it's a giant community.
IIRC he admitted it.
http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/Linus_vs_Tanenbau
dear trolls, I mean of course the source of opensolaris, not dtrace.
...but have a look at the http://opensolaris.org/ site:
sure. This stands on that page since months or so. Where is the code?
OK, let's get this straight, it isn't life threatening, right.
But it does endanger the fortune/property of other ones.
Sure it won't kill you. It'll only give away your bankinformation, creditcardnumbers, address, list of sites you visited, mails, accounts, passwords.
Having a licence required would cause the PC/Internet access industry to plummet. And because of lack of consumer investment, progress in newer technologies would slow down.
Right. Then do not let users without the licence have windows. Give them an all-singing-all-dancing linux, without root, upgraded remotely.
Ya, spyware sucks ass. But I'll just let the free market take care of this. Until then, I'm willing to take the good with the bad.
The real problem here is, that without some bad-designed OS-like thingie the 'bad' wouldn't even exist. With a licence like this people at least would have an idea about the net and computing, and wouldnt fall for the lets_sell_our_OS_and_lie_abotu_it_how_cool_it_is firms^H.
IMNSHO having a box on the net is nearly as sharp situation as driving a car - how about some computer-internet-licence if one wants to have one?
Since you can spam (willing or not even knowing about it) or be a zombie for some hax0r-attacks, you should carry responsibility. At least partly.
sure. Do some 302 redirect-statistic-hack. Make money. Cheat your customers. No it's no excuse that other ones are doing it as well, bad attitude.
We are the Borg of LiarMarketing. Resistance is futile, human.
come on - get a life, be straight.
You realise that the G5 is Power architecture don't you?
erm, yes, you could be right there I guess.
And, only Sun's low-end systems are x86_64. The high-end Sun Fire beasts are still SPARC-based.
Yes, yet. But I am not anymore sure how long, I mean have a look at how the old/great/noble Sun with his lordly Sparcs, and high-ends is rushing to make business out of the x86/linux market. I mean I hope I am wrong with this, and do really wish a sparc/solaris(10) comeback.
Come on. The diversity in HW-business has lost lots. Have a look at NetBSD's supported architectures. The most of them are sadly dead. HP gave up alpha, Sun is panicing and running to x86_64/Linux, the only two players that managed to bring something new are IBM, and the Power-architecture, and Apple with the G5-way. But Intel's Itanium is quite dead, though AMD is coming up, the Opteron is worth a look. Give them a little time, let diversity have a comeback.
it's obviuos. softraid, RAID0 (striping).
Well, cheap+reliable == linux + softraid + Enhanced Network Block Device + Enterprise Volume Management System (or LVM2). It is often faster than non-hw-raid (fake-hw controllers.
An achievment in travel? You mean we will be all flying around alone, around the world, with jet-flights? Sure. FYI The Wright brothers brought something what came out to be really useful.
But this guy? What does he show us? In which way the future? How do you compare that? Apples to oranges?
And now rethink that about stupidity. You can also consider 'zealotry' and 'bullshitting'.
HAND.
...what kind of sense does it have to fly around the earth? Just to get into the Guinness recors-book? Come on. Wasting fuel, a pile of money, for one entry. pitiful.
right.
Or since they are into management they forgot to keep up with the always changing skills/features, so "What you mean we have no mainframes?" "What you mean I should use ssh instead of telnet?, why should I?" "What you mean by Debian?" etc.
If you want to lead an IT, you'll need a manager with competent technical skills, or he will not understand, why to switch from Exchange or win2k serverpark to something else.
Or the same thing, he agrees to use linux, since 'everyone uses it' - but he only allows RH.
That's a sysadmins nightmare.
If that's PR, that goes about insinuating M$, and then let them shine found perfectly unguilty, and just fallen into the filthy trap some bad-bad F/OSS hax0r set up, then...
The real question is here - does it make it on puprose or just by mistake?
and then
do I want an anti-spyware tool which intentionally marks non-m$ software with the TO_BE_REMOVED flag?
do I want an anti-spyware tool which is so shit that by mistake marks non-m$ software with the TO_BE_REMOVED flag?
that's a bit - but really just slightly
Have a look at this site.
HTH