Gentoo has already considered this problem as it affects the Portage system (two months ago, no less). Portage distfiles are only validated by md5 sums (no gpg signing yet, though it's being worked on) so this could be a serious problem at some point.
Xen has nothing to do with VMware-style guest OS "virtualization".
You're looking for something more like QEmu, which while it's actually a CPU emulator they're working on adding virtualization capabilities a la VMware Workstation/VPC.
The submitter of this article is quite obviously clueless. Xen and VMware are wildly different technologies designed for very different problems. Xen is much closer to VMWare GSX Server, which has little in common with VMWare Workstation.
Has any Linux distro gotten Common Criteria certification yet? Seems like that is the major barrier to large scale governmental/military adoption and not some small-time competitor FUD.
Remember when Arch was first being bandied about? Tom Lord made a big deal about how writing it as a bunch of shell scripts (err, "POSIX standard SH" not bash) was actually a good idea and helped speed development and didn't really hurt performance, etc. Guess what? No one used arch because as sound as the theory behind it might be, as concrete software it seemed like a joke.
So someone came along and did the hard work of reimplementing it in a real language and suddenly the world is taking Arch seriously. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up seeing a similar situation pan out with Darcs.
In the early 90s Intel's dominance was just ramping up. Remember back then? The cheapest PC you could get cost $1500 and was a 33 MHz 486 with 4MB RAM.
In 2004 it's going on 20 years. We all know that market leadership is temporary, it is inevitable that someone will knock Intel from the pedestal. The question is not if but when, and by whom.
The IBM POWER line (including PPC) is the one and only true threat to Intel's dominance of the hardware market. Remember that AMD pays royalties to Intel for every chip it sells, which pretty much condemns them to permanent second-place competitor.
Once the PPC 970 (or some successor) starts shipping in commodity beige boxes, however, the entire marketplace will be turned upside down. Can you imagine buying the generic equivalent of a dual proc G5 for $600? Sweet.
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Gentoo has already considered this problem as it affects the Portage system (two months ago, no less). Portage distfiles are only validated by md5 sums (no gpg signing yet, though it's being worked on) so this could be a serious problem at some point.
You're looking for something more like QEmu, which while it's actually a CPU emulator they're working on adding virtualization capabilities a la VMware Workstation/VPC.
The submitter of this article is quite obviously clueless. Xen and VMware are wildly different technologies designed for very different problems. Xen is much closer to VMWare GSX Server, which has little in common with VMWare Workstation.
I'm a fan of non-commercial radio myself.
Has any Linux distro gotten Common Criteria certification yet? Seems like that is the major barrier to large scale governmental/military adoption and not some small-time competitor FUD.
Remember when Arch was first being bandied about? Tom Lord made a big deal about how writing it as a bunch of shell scripts (err, "POSIX standard SH" not bash) was actually a good idea and helped speed development and didn't really hurt performance, etc. Guess what? No one used arch because as sound as the theory behind it might be, as concrete software it seemed like a joke.
So someone came along and did the hard work of reimplementing it in a real language and suddenly the world is taking Arch seriously. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up seeing a similar situation pan out with Darcs.
In the early 90s Intel's dominance was just ramping up. Remember back then? The cheapest PC you could get cost $1500 and was a 33 MHz 486 with 4MB RAM.
In 2004 it's going on 20 years. We all know that market leadership is temporary, it is inevitable that someone will knock Intel from the pedestal. The question is not if but when, and by whom.
The IBM POWER line (including PPC) is the one and only true threat to Intel's dominance of the hardware market. Remember that AMD pays royalties to Intel for every chip it sells, which pretty much condemns them to permanent second-place competitor.
Once the PPC 970 (or some successor) starts shipping in commodity beige boxes, however, the entire marketplace will be turned upside down. Can you imagine buying the generic equivalent of a dual proc G5 for $600? Sweet.