Intel has a monopoly on the desktop market and low-end server market, which is one of the places Itanium is eventually headed.
SGI has been a kind of sinking ship for a few years now. Although they made really nice products, they didn't market them so well, and they were very expensive. Now SGI has all but abandoned IRIX in favor of the much more marketable Linux.
The other place Intel hopes to put Itanium is the high-end server market, where it will have to take on the already entrenched Sun Microsystems (which has had a 64-bit chip for years as well). Like SGI, Sun is really too expensive to take much of a foothold on the desktop market, although they have really lowered the prices on their low-end workstations. The other thing keeping Sun out of the desktop market is Microsoft. Sun doesn't really have any good desktop software. Linux runs on Sun, but let's face it. Linux hasn't displaced Microsoft yet, and it probably won't happen with the release of Itanium either.
AMD wants to breathe a little more life into an already ancient and far outdated processor core. The major reason that x86 suxors right now is that Intel hasn't figured out how to escape their legacy support. I APPLAUD them for finally doing something original.
As for AMD, they may see a bit of success initially with their x86-64, but as people migrate to the new non-legacy IA64, AMD is going to sink. It's unfortunate because I think there really should be a bit more competition in the processor market, but I just don't see people migrating to x86-64.
Actually, the main reason that I've never been too interested in NetBSD is the a.out format. I looked into it about the time that 1.4 came out because I like trying out different OSes. Kind of a fetish I guess. Anyway, when I found out about the a.out/elf issue, I was waaay disappointed. I'll probably give it a try again though when 1.5 comes out.
Apparently, some of the NetBSD guys still have some sort of pride problem with using anything from OpenBSD, as shown here.
Jason Thorpe has committed an OpenSSH-based Secure Shell to the main NetBSD sources. This will be pulled into the netbsd-1-5 branch, so it will be available in NetBSD 1.5.
Please note that the OpenSSH-based implementation is a temporary measure; it will be replaced with a completely independent implementation as soon as that other implementation is ready (within the next couple of months it is hoped).
I suspect that it should run win98 without too much trouble. after, win98 is really just a patched-up version of win95. not very much changed. and as for ME, it's just like 98 except it doesn't allow you to go into real-mode dos. it's still running dos, it just won't let you not use the 98 GUI.
i installed QNX from the ISO. after some troubles getting it to boot, i eventually got into the photon microgui. "this is pretty slick" i thought. i was amazed to discover my SB Live! was supported. unfortunately, my tulip compatible network card wasn't working. i decided that if it wasn't going to work with my network card, it wasn't worth it.
that's when i decided to go back to windows. unfortunately, i was unable to ascertain from the QNX bootloader how to actually do this. i tried lots of options and keystrokes that i thought might help, but to no avail. all i could do was make QNX start to load and then fail. (i had gotten into it originally with some sort of safe mode).
so, i busted out the trusty ol' redhat 6.2 cd (remembering there was an emergency boot option). too bad you can't install lilo using that... after unsuccessfully trying, i said, "fuck it. i'll just install a base RH 6.2 over my QNX partition". i told it to reformat the partition as ext2 and install no packages. little did i know that RH would just sit there if you didn't choose any packages. *sigh*
fortunately, it did delete the QNX partition, which left the QNX bootloader with no choice but to throw me back into WinMe. after a quick "fdisk/mbr", i feel better already.
that sounds fairly typical. most MSCEs are people who are looking for the money. they don't really know anything about computers, but the market is still desparate for people.
But the one thing you are ignoring is that all of those projects have actually released "stable" versions of software and moved on to their next development phase. Mozilla has yet to accomplish that!
The FBI totally shouldn't be invading people's privacy, but if they need to use it to catch child molestors and their like, I think we should all be willing to give up a little freedom. Think of the bad people they can stop, not the fact that someone might accidentally read about your dinner plans.
my school has a linux lab with RH 6.something. they unfortunately do not have ssh. i seriously considered the possibility of just installing it on one or two of them ('shutdown now' puts you into single-user mode from any valid account). they have ssh installed on their main server (solaris) but it isn't always on. anyway, i suspect that ssh will be preinstalled after the RSA patent expires...
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Intel has a monopoly on the desktop market and low-end server market, which is one of the places Itanium is eventually headed.
SGI has been a kind of sinking ship for a few years now. Although they made really nice products, they didn't market them so well, and they were very expensive. Now SGI has all but abandoned IRIX in favor of the much more marketable Linux.
The other place Intel hopes to put Itanium is the high-end server market, where it will have to take on the already entrenched Sun Microsystems (which has had a 64-bit chip for years as well). Like SGI, Sun is really too expensive to take much of a foothold on the desktop market, although they have really lowered the prices on their low-end workstations. The other thing keeping Sun out of the desktop market is Microsoft. Sun doesn't really have any good desktop software. Linux runs on Sun, but let's face it. Linux hasn't displaced Microsoft yet, and it probably won't happen with the release of Itanium either.
Neither is Itanium.
Ick, ick, ick!
AMD wants to breathe a little more life into an already ancient and far outdated processor core. The major reason that x86 suxors right now is that Intel hasn't figured out how to escape their legacy support. I APPLAUD them for finally doing something original.
As for AMD, they may see a bit of success initially with their x86-64, but as people migrate to the new non-legacy IA64, AMD is going to sink. It's unfortunate because I think there really should be a bit more competition in the processor market, but I just don't see people migrating to x86-64.
OR...just burn a boot disk to your CD using floppy emulation.
my personal burner for win32 (Nero) has support for this. i'm pretty sure you can do something similar under the linux tools.
Actually, the main reason that I've never been too interested in NetBSD is the a.out format. I looked into it about the time that 1.4 came out because I like trying out different OSes. Kind of a fetish I guess. Anyway, when I found out about the a.out/elf issue, I was waaay disappointed. I'll probably give it a try again though when 1.5 comes out.
I set up about 6 different sites on a single OpenBSD 2.7 server running apache, php4, mysql, and SSL.
Unfortunately, java on BSD isn't quite as updated as on linux, although I believe there is some version that will run.
I suspect that it should run win98 without too much trouble. after, win98 is really just a patched-up version of win95. not very much changed. and as for ME, it's just like 98 except it doesn't allow you to go into real-mode dos. it's still running dos, it just won't let you not use the 98 GUI.
who is going to be able to buy in on the IPO?
price?
haven't you heard? nerds are now more likely to drugs because of their high-stress jobs. that's how it relates (i'm pretty sure).
i used their little command-line utility to detect network cards. it came back as not detecting any. i'm not completely dumb. i RTFM.
i installed QNX from the ISO. after some troubles getting it to boot, i eventually got into the photon microgui. "this is pretty slick" i thought. i was amazed to discover my SB Live! was supported. unfortunately, my tulip compatible network card wasn't working. i decided that if it wasn't going to work with my network card, it wasn't worth it.
/mbr", i feel better already.
that's when i decided to go back to windows. unfortunately, i was unable to ascertain from the QNX bootloader how to actually do this. i tried lots of options and keystrokes that i thought might help, but to no avail. all i could do was make QNX start to load and then fail. (i had gotten into it originally with some sort of safe mode).
so, i busted out the trusty ol' redhat 6.2 cd (remembering there was an emergency boot option). too bad you can't install lilo using that... after unsuccessfully trying, i said, "fuck it. i'll just install a base RH 6.2 over my QNX partition". i told it to reformat the partition as ext2 and install no packages. little did i know that RH would just sit there if you didn't choose any packages. *sigh*
fortunately, it did delete the QNX partition, which left the QNX bootloader with no choice but to throw me back into WinMe. after a quick "fdisk
i have been using my intellimouse explorer with RH 6.2 (2.2.17) for quite some time...
no no no.
NAT translates internal address into one external address just like masquerading does. (trust me. i'm using it now).
IP Masquerading in linux isn't exactly the same thing as NAT. It is similar, but different. *BSD implements NAT.
uh huh...
one would think you'd learn to look before you leap, at least for a while...
visit http://www.aol.com/aim/Linuxbeta.html for the official linux client.
mount /home and /tmp (the only place kiddies should be able to write to) noexec. that'll give 'em something to think about.
that sounds fairly typical. most MSCEs are people who are looking for the money. they don't really know anything about computers, but the market is still desparate for people.
But the one thing you are ignoring is that all of those projects have actually released "stable" versions of software and moved on to their next development phase. Mozilla has yet to accomplish that!
there are already several napster clients available for linux. just do some checking at freshmeat and you'll find them.
YOU FOOL! you have started yet another license war. congratulations. please moderate parent down to oblivion.
The FBI totally shouldn't be invading people's privacy, but if they need to use it to catch child molestors and their like, I think we should all be willing to give up a little freedom. Think of the bad people they can stop, not the fact that someone might accidentally read about your dinner plans.
IPv6 is supported in the default kernel with OpenBSD (not supposedly; i've got a system running it).
my school has a linux lab with RH 6.something. they unfortunately do not have ssh. i seriously considered the possibility of just installing it on one or two of them ('shutdown now' puts you into single-user mode from any valid account). they have ssh installed on their main server (solaris) but it isn't always on. anyway, i suspect that ssh will be preinstalled after the RSA patent expires...
so uh, what happened to the original signal 11 account?