Performance and scalability -- on Sun hardware only, and that scalability edge really is dwindling quickly compared with Linux today.
Oh yeah, and a guarantee that you won't be sued by SCO.;)
The chip prevents MacOS on generic Wintel, but what about the vice versa scenario, in which people install cheapo WinXP on an elegant PowerMac
Apple will likely do nothing to prevent Windows from running on Apple hardware. They will probably, however, do nothing to encourage it either.
It will only benefit them in the long run as a hardware manufacturer. People will be able to have their Mac and Windows too.
The problem being that the Intel Mac firmware (equivalent to the PC BIOS) will likely not be capable of booting Windows out of the box, much like the existing Mac firmware. Look for lots of people to make money selling mod kits that allow installing Windows on a Mac. These might take the form of a PCI card with Phoenix or Award BIOS on it.
Wolfenstein 3D was the most downloaded game in history. It was released as shareware and playing the real game was a simple manner of obtaining the.WAD files.
The sequel, Doom, proved to be the most popular game in history. And how many of you paid $50-60 US or more sight unseen for Doom 3?
Given Microsoft's history, they will then make a second attempt... which will burn down, fall over, and then sink into the swamp.
But Microsoft usually doesn't give up just because of two massive failures, and rarely loses on their third try at something.
That's true.
Operating Systems: Windows 1.x (failed); Windows 2.x (failed); Windows 3.x (DING!)
Hmmm...
So, let's say you are a 31337 h4x0r and you are looking to 0wn some b0x.
Which host would you try?
eval.google.com
secretlab.google.com
The latter, of course....then you can say 'w00t! 1 0wnz0r3d g00gl3's s3cr37l4b!!!
I think the point is that some developers may feel cheated if someone comes along after you've been working on something for 5 years, re-package it, re-brand it, and sell it - with source of course - and make a pile of money. Especially if that "competes" with donationware style proft stream for the developers.
Hmmm...this sounds an awful lot like what Red Hat, Mandrake and Novell/SuSE do. I guess I'm not seeing the screams of protest...
That doesn't count towards how many servers are running linux/unix without having paid for it... in regards to how many servers are out there of each, you can't go by just the sales. I would say linux/unix probably outweighs windows in quantity of servers on the net.
Linux server sales usually aren't counted with Unix server sales. The analysts typically treat them separately. So US $4.2bn in sales for Unix servers counts only servers running Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, SCO, etc.
If you combined the $1.2bn in sales for Linux servers with $4.2bn for Unix servers, that puts total *nix sales at $5.4bn.
There isn't one in the vanilla kernel. Nor is there one in the Red Hat kernel for Fedora Core 3. Like I said, if there's an open source driver, I haven't seen one.
The problem is that the magellan kernel module is closed-source and binary-only, like the nVidia driver. Maybe that's good enough for you, but isn't good enough for me.
The 'Pentium Pro' comes to mind. I remember thinking, "What will they call the next special Pentium chip? The Pentium Pro GOLD?!"
Heh.
At 200 MHZ, the Pentium Pro isn't so 'Pro' anymore.
Now they STILL haven't learned their lesson, calling their next special CPU the 'EXTREME!"
That's Intel marketing for ya... EXTREMEly dull.
Can you really take someone's claims seriously when they make statements about Solaris being the only remaining Unix? Uh, I'm sure the Open Group, and maybe IBM, HP and SGI *might* just have something to say about that. And the *BSD teams and Apple, while we're at it.
And probably Darl McBride too. After all SCO is the current "owner of the Unix operating system" right?
Additionally, the security of a system has to take into account every software piece in the system, not just the kernel. Red Hat takes responsibility for the system the way they have integrated it, and does, indeed, provide security fixes and patches for the individual components of the system, as well as Red Hat's integration pieces (such as Anaconda, init scripts, etc.)
In addition, one should never rely on the vendor to take responsbility for OS and network security. This responsibility lies primarily on the network and systems administrators that run the system. THEY are the ones who need to be accountable for security on their systems. This includes details like security audits and reading security advisories. Then, it is up them to contact the vendor and inquire about patches, etc.
The Christian holidays were moved around by one of the Roman emperors so that Christian holidays would coincide with the traditional pagan holidays. The idea was to get the pagans to convert to Christianity.
Christmas, for example, was changed so that it would coincide with the Winter Solstice.
Notice that when people put phrases like "making bombs" and "weapons-grade plutonium" in their posts, they feel the need to explicitly add that they aren't terrorist.
I noticed that you didn't explilictly add that you aren't a terrorist. Perhaps we should be suspicious...;-)
More like a gazillion human analysts.
The sheer amount of data is massive.
Look at it this way. In this message, I am putting interesting keywords and phrases like 'making bombs,' 'weapons-grade plutonium for sale,' and '9/11? ha! you ain't seen nothin' yet!'.
Yet, I am not a terrorist, and have no interest in conducting terrorist activities. I still need to separate the wheat from the chafe.
I could come up with all sorts of fancy algorithms and scoring systems and statistical analyses, but in the end how am I to process the sheer enormous amounts of conversations on the Internet? I doubt even Bayesian filtering is up to the task.
9) The first guy to realize "I'm not just submitting instructions for it to process - it's submiting instructions back for me to process!" - the interactive moment
That's a tough one. A lot of people realised this early on, but it's a hardware problem and an operating system problem more than a software problem.
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Performance and scalability -- on Sun hardware only, and that scalability edge really is dwindling quickly compared with Linux today. Oh yeah, and a guarantee that you won't be sued by SCO. ;)
The most popular PC game in history (at that time).
Apple will likely do nothing to prevent Windows from running on Apple hardware. They will probably, however, do nothing to encourage it either.
It will only benefit them in the long run as a hardware manufacturer. People will be able to have their Mac and Windows too.
The problem being that the Intel Mac firmware (equivalent to the PC BIOS) will likely not be capable of booting Windows out of the box, much like the existing Mac firmware. Look for lots of people to make money selling mod kits that allow installing Windows on a Mac. These might take the form of a PCI card with Phoenix or Award BIOS on it.
The sequel, Doom, proved to be the most popular game in history. And how many of you paid $50-60 US or more sight unseen for Doom 3?
Michael Jackson found not guilty.
Operating Systems: Windows 1.x (failed); Windows 2.x (failed); Windows 3.x (DING!)
Spreadsheets: Multiplan (failed); Excel 1.x (failed); Excel 2.x (DING!)
Word processors: MS-WORD for DOS (failed); WinWord 1.x (failed); WinWord 2.x (Ding!)
- the crypto api module and related stuff like the crypt target in the MD device mapper and the cryptoloop filesystem driver
- software RAID
- CRC-32 routines
- oprofile, which would need to be updated to support system profiling on SPUs.
So, yeah, there is definitely some areas of the kernel that need to or should support SPUs.Hmmm... So, let's say you are a 31337 h4x0r and you are looking to 0wn some b0x. Which host would you try? eval.google.com secretlab.google.com The latter, of course....then you can say 'w00t! 1 0wnz0r3d g00gl3's s3cr37l4b!!!
Hmmm...this sounds an awful lot like what Red Hat, Mandrake and Novell/SuSE do. I guess I'm not seeing the screams of protest...
Linux server sales usually aren't counted with Unix server sales. The analysts typically treat them separately. So US $4.2bn in sales for Unix servers counts only servers running Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, SCO, etc.
If you combined the $1.2bn in sales for Linux servers with $4.2bn for Unix servers, that puts total *nix sales at $5.4bn.
Nope. Stanford
I take that back... It IS in there. Nevermind. (goes off grumbling...)
There isn't one in the vanilla kernel. Nor is there one in the Red Hat kernel for Fedora Core 3. Like I said, if there's an open source driver, I haven't seen one.
The problem is that the magellan kernel module is closed-source and binary-only, like the nVidia driver. Maybe that's good enough for you, but isn't good enough for me.
Any support for these 3D input devices? I mean, there are Linux drivers, but as of yet no open source drivers (to my knowledge) for these devices.
You forgot the Netcraft study (funded by Microsoft) that shows that Internet Explorer performs better and has fewer bugs than Firefox.
Not to mention the additional studies that show that Internet Explorer is actually cheaper than Firefox -- on any platform.
The 'Pentium Pro' comes to mind. I remember thinking, "What will they call the next special Pentium chip? The Pentium Pro GOLD?!" Heh. At 200 MHZ, the Pentium Pro isn't so 'Pro' anymore. Now they STILL haven't learned their lesson, calling their next special CPU the 'EXTREME!" That's Intel marketing for ya... EXTREMEly dull.
Can you really take someone's claims seriously when they make statements about Solaris being the only remaining Unix? Uh, I'm sure the Open Group, and maybe IBM, HP and SGI *might* just have something to say about that. And the *BSD teams and Apple, while we're at it.
And probably Darl McBride too. After all SCO is the current "owner of the Unix operating system" right?
Additionally, the security of a system has to take into account every software piece in the system, not just the kernel. Red Hat takes responsibility for the system the way they have integrated it, and does, indeed, provide security fixes and patches for the individual components of the system, as well as Red Hat's integration pieces (such as Anaconda, init scripts, etc.) In addition, one should never rely on the vendor to take responsbility for OS and network security. This responsibility lies primarily on the network and systems administrators that run the system. THEY are the ones who need to be accountable for security on their systems. This includes details like security audits and reading security advisories. Then, it is up them to contact the vendor and inquire about patches, etc.
The Christian holidays were moved around by one of the Roman emperors so that Christian holidays would coincide with the traditional pagan holidays. The idea was to get the pagans to convert to Christianity. Christmas, for example, was changed so that it would coincide with the Winter Solstice.
More like a gazillion human analysts. The sheer amount of data is massive. Look at it this way. In this message, I am putting interesting keywords and phrases like 'making bombs,' 'weapons-grade plutonium for sale,' and '9/11? ha! you ain't seen nothin' yet!'. Yet, I am not a terrorist, and have no interest in conducting terrorist activities. I still need to separate the wheat from the chafe. I could come up with all sorts of fancy algorithms and scoring systems and statistical analyses, but in the end how am I to process the sheer enormous amounts of conversations on the Internet? I doubt even Bayesian filtering is up to the task.
9) The first guy to realize "I'm not just submitting instructions for it to process - it's submiting instructions back for me to process!" - the interactive moment
That's a tough one. A lot of people realised this early on, but it's a hardware problem and an operating system problem more than a software problem.
The CTSS guys?
MOD PARENT UP.
put a GNOME front-end on lq-text, and you have something like Google or Yahoo desktop search on Linux.
This is *exactly* what the community needs.