What do you mean? Unless you thought that it was so much easier to administer AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Sco, and Solaris (depending on your viewpoint). Or maybe you thought that AS/400 was easier to use?
Sure - go have a look at the Dell Precision line (sold as a mobile workstation). The Precision 7710 has a 17" screen, choice of i7 or Xeon, Quadro GPU, either FHD or UHD display, standard option of 32GB of RAM (64 if you customize it), up to 3 storage devices (SSD/HDD), RAID (0/1/5), thunderbolt port, and still works with the E-series docking station. Or step down to the 7510 (15"), and have two storage devices and RAID 0/1 instead. And for operating systems you get choice of Windows 7 or 10 (Pro), or Ubuntu Linux.
To answer your question, you can create a swapfile on a filesystem and use it. It is slower then a swap partition, but it works. Here is what you need to do (as root):
# Create the file touch swapfile
# Make it the size you want, where $size is how big you want, with the prefix , such as 8GB truncate --size=$size swapfile
# Format it for swap mkswap swapfile
# Turn it on swapon swapfile
# Add it to/etc/fstab if you want it to be permanent echo "$('pwd')/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0" >>/etc/fstab
At one of my clients (in the Virgin Islands) they only have a shared T1 for internet. And we have some new clients in the western US that have satellite internet. Remote access isn't something that can always be taken for granted. And it isn't uncommon for some of our developers to take their laptop with them when they travel back to India or Nepal to visit their families.
Hell, at a previous job they have an office outside of Pittsburgh that is still using DSL because that is the best service available to them at this time (the West Virginia office has better internet...).
You're complaining in the wrong area. Go submit something to the Linux subsection if you care, but I think you'll find that most people do not care about it
Negative. They all use Linus's kernel as upstream, and just apply their own patches to it from there. Without Linus, they do not move forward and begin to diverge from each other.
Tell me another good joke. Modern Linux is a PITA for system administrators, thanks to groups like Red Hat pushing cancers like systemd into the Linux ecosystem.
That's correct - there are no GPU drivers for OS X in VirtualBox or VMware. OS X has always fallen back to software rendering of everything when it does not have a GPU driver that supports the features it wants (which was really bad on PPC trying to use Expose and the like on some of the really early G3/G4 machines)
....ummm what? Like SGI, Apple never used the legacy BIOS declaring it to be old and obsolete. However, secure boot was never a thing on Apple hardware (or SGI hardware either).
Fedora is a very upstream distribution, and also does very little modification to the bundled software. They also contribute more back upstream then any other distribution does. Finally, The changes that happen in Fedora set the stage for Linux in general - the Fedora team does things first (PulseAudio, Network Manager, GNOME, systemd) and every one else follows.
I bought the non-retina model back in February because Ethernet and replaceable parts are more vaulable to me then the retina display. Plus, I was able to buy (Apple approved even) 16GB of RAM and an SSD for much cheaper then getting the rMBP with 8GB of RAM (and it isn't like there is a lot of gain on the CPU end going from Ivy Bridge to the Haswell model I was looking at. Wireless AC was the only feature that I sorta wanted, but that really won't be a concern for a couple of years yet, if it ever becomes one).
How many people actually are using the rMBP though? None of the people that I know are buying them, and even some corporate groups are buying the 2012 still or moving to the Dell Precision instead.
At a previous job I told our Apple rep, in response to them asking us why we stopped buying new Apple laptops, that we would start buying more if they made a Professional MacBook Pro again (we kept ordering the 2012 model). They were not amused, but IT (and the users) preferred the Precisions that we were buying (M4x00 line) to the rMBP.
Actually, I know quite a few people (including myself) that will not buy the retina MacBook Pro because it is too much hassle compared to the non-retina model. Ethernet and upgradable parts have kept it alive and quite popular four years later. Most users (myself included) have no interest in carrying a pile of dongles (I bought a 2012 in Feb, plus Apple approved SSD and 16GB of RAM, for less then the cost of buying a retina one with 8GB of RAM and a smaller SSD).
We will see. I know a lot of Apple users that are waiting for an actual Pro version of the MacBook Pro to exist again and have refrained from purchasing the retina display models due to the drop in quality. Why pay more to have less?
We will see. Microsoft failed to get people to move to Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10 isn't any better to work with. I get the feeling Windows 7 is going to be around quite a bit past it's scheduled EoL unless Microsoft figures out that a - users want to have control/customization/organization of their start menu and b- that users do not like ads everywhere.
I still use my SGI Octane as a server, for what it's worth. I fell in love with the MIPS systems, and when I've got some extra $$ again am looking forward to playing with the Creator CI boards, just because MIPS.
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What do you mean? Unless you thought that it was so much easier to administer AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Sco, and Solaris (depending on your viewpoint). Or maybe you thought that AS/400 was easier to use?
Sure - go have a look at the Dell Precision line (sold as a mobile workstation). The Precision 7710 has a 17" screen, choice of i7 or Xeon, Quadro GPU, either FHD or UHD display, standard option of 32GB of RAM (64 if you customize it), up to 3 storage devices (SSD/HDD), RAID (0/1/5), thunderbolt port, and still works with the E-series docking station. Or step down to the 7510 (15"), and have two storage devices and RAID 0/1 instead. And for operating systems you get choice of Windows 7 or 10 (Pro), or Ubuntu Linux.
Wait, you actually look at your keyboard when you are typing?
To answer your question, you can create a swapfile on a filesystem and use it. It is slower then a swap partition, but it works. Here is what you need to do (as root):
# Create the file
touch swapfile
# Make it the size you want, where $size is how big you want, with the prefix , such as 8GB
truncate --size=$size swapfile
# Format it for swap
mkswap swapfile
# Turn it on
swapon swapfile
# Add it to /etc/fstab if you want it to be permanent /etc/fstab
echo "$('pwd')/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0" >>
At one of my clients (in the Virgin Islands) they only have a shared T1 for internet. And we have some new clients in the western US that have satellite internet. Remote access isn't something that can always be taken for granted. And it isn't uncommon for some of our developers to take their laptop with them when they travel back to India or Nepal to visit their families.
Hell, at a previous job they have an office outside of Pittsburgh that is still using DSL because that is the best service available to them at this time (the West Virginia office has better internet...).
You're complaining in the wrong area. Go submit something to the Linux subsection if you care, but I think you'll find that most people do not care about it
Negative. They all use Linus's kernel as upstream, and just apply their own patches to it from there. Without Linus, they do not move forward and begin to diverge from each other.
You could give MATE + Compiz a shot, or TDE if you were a fan of KDE 3.x
Tell me another good joke. Modern Linux is a PITA for system administrators, thanks to groups like Red Hat pushing cancers like systemd into the Linux ecosystem.
You clearly aren't familiar with Baltimore...
That's correct - there are no GPU drivers for OS X in VirtualBox or VMware. OS X has always fallen back to software rendering of everything when it does not have a GPU driver that supports the features it wants (which was really bad on PPC trying to use Expose and the like on some of the really early G3/G4 machines)
....ummm what? Like SGI, Apple never used the legacy BIOS declaring it to be old and obsolete. However, secure boot was never a thing on Apple hardware (or SGI hardware either).
Motif and TCL/TK work great remotely.
Which they had no ability to do - the court order would have forced them to do it for free.
Try using a mainstream distribution then? Steam works perfect from Ubuntu (which is the Valve supported distribution) and Fedora.
Fedora is a very upstream distribution, and also does very little modification to the bundled software. They also contribute more back upstream then any other distribution does. Finally, The changes that happen in Fedora set the stage for Linux in general - the Fedora team does things first (PulseAudio, Network Manager, GNOME, systemd) and every one else follows.
I bought the non-retina model back in February because Ethernet and replaceable parts are more vaulable to me then the retina display. Plus, I was able to buy (Apple approved even) 16GB of RAM and an SSD for much cheaper then getting the rMBP with 8GB of RAM (and it isn't like there is a lot of gain on the CPU end going from Ivy Bridge to the Haswell model I was looking at. Wireless AC was the only feature that I sorta wanted, but that really won't be a concern for a couple of years yet, if it ever becomes one).
How many people actually are using the rMBP though? None of the people that I know are buying them, and even some corporate groups are buying the 2012 still or moving to the Dell Precision instead.
At a previous job I told our Apple rep, in response to them asking us why we stopped buying new Apple laptops, that we would start buying more if they made a Professional MacBook Pro again (we kept ordering the 2012 model). They were not amused, but IT (and the users) preferred the Precisions that we were buying (M4x00 line) to the rMBP.
Actually, I know quite a few people (including myself) that will not buy the retina MacBook Pro because it is too much hassle compared to the non-retina model. Ethernet and upgradable parts have kept it alive and quite popular four years later. Most users (myself included) have no interest in carrying a pile of dongles (I bought a 2012 in Feb, plus Apple approved SSD and 16GB of RAM, for less then the cost of buying a retina one with 8GB of RAM and a smaller SSD).
I had high hopes for Lemote, as I too would prefer MIPS. Maybe a device could be made from a Creator CI40?
We will see. I know a lot of Apple users that are waiting for an actual Pro version of the MacBook Pro to exist again and have refrained from purchasing the retina display models due to the drop in quality. Why pay more to have less?
We will see. Microsoft failed to get people to move to Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10 isn't any better to work with. I get the feeling Windows 7 is going to be around quite a bit past it's scheduled EoL unless Microsoft figures out that a - users want to have control/customization/organization of their start menu and b- that users do not like ads everywhere.
I still use my SGI Octane as a server, for what it's worth. I fell in love with the MIPS systems, and when I've got some extra $$ again am looking forward to playing with the Creator CI boards, just because MIPS.
MIPS CPUs, not Millions of Instructions per Second. They used to power the high end SGI Workstations.