b.) Linux (and linux software) is only free if your time is worthless.
c.) I have many friends in the high-end industries using high-end costly workstations and high end costly software (that's right, they paid dollars for it) "surviving" just fine. Thriving, in fact.
If software vendors are not "allowed" to sell their products for linux by you liquid-brained, basement-lurking linux monkeys, your little operating system will go down and fast.
You bet? You can not speculate about a company that has shown such on-par marketing techniques up up till now! (um, heh.) By the way, no more cube logo for you kids. Use the "sgi", its for you.
You know, I wish you folks would come back to reality with this Beowulf crap. It may be a cheap way to weld a bunch of little bargain basement peecees together but no Beowulf abomination is going to do a specific Cray job like a Cray. I am assuming none of you folks that are making these claims have any experience whatsoever in the Science and Engineering disciplines on data mining, visualization, financial forecasting, and aerospace that cray machines are so well suited for. Cray's market share may be shrinking at the moment but that is only due to management geniuses and bandwagon jumpers that think this whole linux thing is going to save their company some how.
Linux is nowhere near the stability, scaleability, and performance of a polished proprietary unix like UNICOS. I cringe when I see you kids want to install your precious linux on a T3E so it will be "really fast". A T3E is running the best possible operating system for its architecture, as is the T90 and SV1 (know what those are?). No linux flavor is going to do these professional machines justice, let alone make them BETTER.
Keep it in the basement of 14-25 year old transluscent skinned pseudohacker types living at home because BitchX and Gimp are the only apps those kids are going to run. Oh, and have mom make me an extra grilled cheese sandwich.
-Patrick Krekelberg Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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>The neat thing is: Linux has Merced support >*now*. No other OS can say that.
Do not comment on that which you do not know.
You have no idea how many in-house proprietary UNIX products are running on Merced "simulators" around the Valley.
They just don't wear it on their shoulder like linux monkeys.
a.) Please, please check your grammar.
b.) Linux (and linux software) is only free if your time is worthless.
c.) I have many friends in the high-end industries using high-end costly workstations and high end costly software (that's right, they paid dollars for it) "surviving" just fine. Thriving, in fact.
bull crap.
that is ridiculous.
If software vendors are not "allowed" to sell their products for linux by you liquid-brained, basement-lurking linux monkeys, your little operating system will go down and fast.
give me a break already.
You know, I wish you folks would come back to reality with this Beowulf crap. It may be a cheap way to weld a bunch of little bargain basement peecees together but no Beowulf abomination is going to do a specific Cray job like a Cray. I am assuming none of you folks that are making these claims have any experience whatsoever in the Science and Engineering disciplines on data mining, visualization, financial forecasting, and aerospace that cray machines are so well suited for. Cray's market share may be shrinking at the moment but that is only due to management geniuses and bandwagon jumpers that think this whole linux thing is going to save their company some how.
Linux is nowhere near the stability, scaleability, and performance of a polished proprietary unix like UNICOS. I cringe when I see you kids want to install your precious linux on a T3E so it will be "really fast". A T3E is running the best possible operating system for its architecture, as is the T90 and SV1 (know what those are?). No linux flavor is going to do these professional machines justice, let alone make them BETTER.
Keep it in the basement of 14-25 year old transluscent skinned pseudohacker types living at home because BitchX and Gimp are the only apps those kids are going to run. Oh, and have mom make me an extra grilled cheese sandwich.
-Patrick Krekelberg
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers