Bill Gates is worth what? 50+ some billion? Where did he make that money from? True some came from investments, but much of it was made on the backs of consumers. And that's just Gate's dough. That isn't counting the other MS million and billionaires, not to mention the profits of MS itself.
So if the 30 billion figure is true, it looks like breaking up MS will cost less than keeping it together! It will save us money! What's the problem?;-)
They don't support Linux, They don't support NT Server either. They seem to be afraid that both OSes will break their security (spammers using your sendmail), people running unauthorized web servers, etc.
Maybe you shouldn't have tried to get technical on them, next time call and say "My internet isn't working, yes it's turned on, yes it's plugged in", and I predict you'll only be on the phone two hours instead of three!;-)
Actually since RCN bought out my ISP, Ultranet, the service has gone to hell.
I was on an automatic payment plan, and in January, my bank began rejecting their billing attempts. RCN/Ultranet said nothing to me until two weeks ago, threatening to tell the credit bureaus bad things about me, unless I fixed the problem within a week.
WTF! They've been having this problem since January, and instead of politely inquiring about it, they wait 4 months and threaten me?
All of the tools you mention (perl, make, Bash) are available for Sun, from sites like www.sunfreeware.com. The only catch is once you install them, you have to call the OS GNU/Solaris (Just kidding!;-) )
What I need is something that allows Solaris to mount SMB shares, I already have Samba installed, and it works great for serving, but it doesn't allow Solaris to mount shares.
(Sure smbclient allows access, but it doesn't allow shares to be mounted either)
It's a distributed filesystem developed at CMU. On of the cool features is how it works for disconnected clients, E.G. a laptop.
A disconnected client still acts like it's connected to the CODA system, and you can make changes to CODA files and they will be resynced when you connect back to the network.
At least this is what I gather from reading about it, I haven't used it myself yet.
When I came to my current job, they had a small network of Suns, but for some inexplicable reason, they had an NFS server running on NT. Worse yet it was a demo copy of some NT NFS software, and the license would expire every so often, and the Suns would hang trying to access it!
The good news is that we ordered a Sun box for our NFS server. It should be in "any day now".
About NIS+, I had to enable "NIS compatibility" on the Sun NIS+ server to allow Linux NIS clients to work with it, and it seems to work out of the box on RH 5.2, anyway.
It does? I've seen it used without NIS everywhere, even on SCO. Are you sure that your/etc/nsswitch.conf (On Solaris, can't remember if it's the same file on SCO) isn't forcing you to use NIS?
I have had more problems with Linux NFS than anything else on the system. Sometimes it just fails to work, both client and server side, for no apparent reason, All the correct rpc.* daemons are running, and the exports file is correct. Other times the same setup works properly.
Also try mounting a Linux export from a Sun system and watch the Sun complain.
This is with the userspace NFS server, I haven't tried the new kernelspace one yet.
Why is it necessary to migrate from Sun and Digital anyway?
If this survey showed "All webservers" as opposed to "dedicated" or "professional" webservers, then the hobbyist OSes would show artificially high results, although I'm sure that there are many more Linux and BSD "dedicated" webservers than 95/98.
I couldn't reach the Caldera Site, but the articles about this looks like they present the same information that was in Wendy Goldman Rohms, "The Microsoft File" book, which MS also labeled as "Fiction".
Although I thought it was Steve Ballmer, not Jim Allchin who made the "We need to smile with Novell while we pull the trigger comment?
I believe that the term "Goth" is a reference to the barbarian-like tribe that roamed Europe during the dark ages, and as such, wouldn't this be case of the culture devolving, not evolving
Just how are these hosts found? I can't imagine that a serious site would be run on 95/98, more likely just a hobbyist with a web server running on their system, who just happened to be connected to the net at the time their system was queried.
It's hard to think of a platform in the marketplace that doesn't have a Linux port. The main ones that come to mind are HP-PA and IBM Mainframe systems. HP supposedly ported Linux internally to HP-PA and IBM is rumored to have done the same with their Mainframes.
By contrast, NT doesn't even support Sparc, one of the most popular non-Intel platforms.
Did you actually read the article? He talked to several legal experts about the GPL, and the experts have different opinions. He talked to the IP lawyer who helped draft the GPL. IMHO, that's better research than reading a mailing list.
As for the "portions" and "watering down" arguments, it's clear that he understands the concepts, but he is looking at it in terms of precedent. IE, would the legal concept of "fair use" weaken the GPL's intent?
In the end, it doesn't really matter what the GPL says if the court finds it unenforcible.
Of course client server has been dying lately in favor of web/application server solutions.
Sure this is a form of client/server, but the MS c/s server model was fat client, where you install a client program on 500 PCs, that take up 450megs on your PC for a "slim" install or 700megs for a full install, and require 64Meg ram to get by. This had the advantage of locking you into MS technology all around.
I also fail to see how NT is an improvement over VMS. VMS at least was a multi-user OS, and I never saw a VAX go down for anything except a hardware failure.
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Bill Gates is worth what? 50+ some billion? Where did he make that money from? True some came from investments, but much of it was made on the backs of consumers. And that's just Gate's dough. That isn't counting the other MS million and billionaires, not to mention the profits of MS itself.
;-)
So if the 30 billion figure is true, it looks like breaking up MS will cost less than keeping it together! It will save us money! What's the problem?
From what I've seen, it's alot more pricey!
They don't support Linux, They don't support NT Server either. They seem to be afraid that both OSes will break their security (spammers using your sendmail), people running unauthorized web servers, etc.
;-)
Maybe you shouldn't have tried to get technical on them, next time call and say "My internet isn't working, yes it's turned on, yes it's plugged in", and I predict you'll only be on the phone two hours instead of three!
Actually since RCN bought out my ISP, Ultranet, the service has gone to hell.
I was on an automatic payment plan, and in January, my bank began rejecting their billing attempts. RCN/Ultranet said nothing to me until two weeks ago, threatening to tell the credit bureaus bad things about me, unless I fixed the problem within a week.
WTF! They've been having this problem since January, and instead of politely inquiring about it, they wait 4 months and threaten me?
All of the tools you mention (perl, make, Bash) are available for Sun, from sites like www.sunfreeware.com. The only catch is once you install them, you have to call the OS GNU/Solaris (Just kidding! ;-) )
What I need is something that allows Solaris to mount SMB shares, I already have Samba installed, and it works great for serving, but it doesn't allow Solaris to mount shares.
(Sure smbclient allows access, but it doesn't allow shares to be mounted either)
Are you only sharing data between Linux systems?
It's likely that Linux NFS was designed to work with Linux NFS, it doesn't work well with others.
It's a distributed filesystem developed at CMU. On of the cool features is how it works for disconnected clients, E.G. a laptop.
A disconnected client still acts like it's connected to the CODA system, and you can make changes to CODA files and they will be resynced when you connect back to the network.
At least this is what I gather from reading about it, I haven't used it myself yet.
Is there something for Solaris that allows it to mount SMB shares (like smbfs for Linux)?
I thought I remember reading that Sun had a product to do this, I can't remember the name, though.
Ok, the question didn't mention that you were using such an old version.
When I came to my current job, they had a small network of Suns, but for some inexplicable reason, they had an NFS server running on NT. Worse yet it was a demo copy of some NT NFS software, and the license would expire every so often, and the Suns would hang trying to access it!
The good news is that we ordered a Sun box for our NFS server. It should be in "any day now".
About NIS+, I had to enable "NIS compatibility" on the Sun NIS+ server to allow Linux NIS clients to work with it, and it seems to work out of the box on RH 5.2, anyway.
It does? I've seen it used without NIS everywhere, even on SCO. Are you sure that your /etc/nsswitch.conf (On Solaris, can't remember if it's the same file on SCO) isn't forcing you to use NIS?
I have had more problems with Linux NFS than anything else on the system. Sometimes it just fails to work, both client and server side, for no apparent reason, All the correct rpc.* daemons are running, and the exports file is correct. Other times the same setup works properly.
Also try mounting a Linux export from a Sun system and watch the Sun complain.
This is with the userspace NFS server, I haven't tried the new kernelspace one yet.
Why is it necessary to migrate from Sun and Digital anyway?
If anything good can come out of this, it will be that people think twice before putting irrelevant terms in the Meta Tags to get search engine hits.
It would be nice to do an Altavista search where at least a simple majority of the pages are on topic for your search!
Maybe there's still some hard feelings after Microsoft's Hostile takeover attempt a few years ago! ;-)
They're not counting total computers, they are just counting those that act as servers on the Internet.
Agreed..
If this survey showed "All webservers" as opposed to "dedicated" or "professional" webservers, then the hobbyist OSes would show artificially high results, although I'm sure that there are many more Linux and BSD "dedicated" webservers than 95/98.
It's perfectly valid as a measure of the OSes that people trust their web sites to.
It doesn't claim to measure all OS use, just webserver OS use.
I couldn't reach the Caldera Site, but the articles about this looks like they present the same information that was in Wendy Goldman Rohms, "The Microsoft File" book, which MS also labeled as "Fiction".
Although I thought it was Steve Ballmer, not Jim Allchin who made the "We need to smile with Novell while we pull the trigger comment?
I believe that the term "Goth" is a reference to the barbarian-like tribe that roamed Europe during the dark ages, and as such, wouldn't this be case of the culture devolving, not evolving
If you look at the real numbers, you see that Sun's up 32,000 hosts! It's just that other systems like Linux, BSD, and NT have grown faster.
In fact, all the OSes have grown, even SCO, Digital/Compaq Unix had the slowest growth.
Just how are these hosts found? I can't imagine that a serious site would be run on 95/98, more likely just a hobbyist with a web server running on their system, who just happened to be connected to the net at the time their system was queried.
How is it technically true?
It's hard to think of a platform in the marketplace that doesn't have a Linux port. The main ones that come to mind are HP-PA and IBM Mainframe systems. HP supposedly ported Linux internally to HP-PA and IBM is rumored to have done the same with their Mainframes.
By contrast, NT doesn't even support Sparc, one of the most popular non-Intel platforms.
Did you actually read the article? He talked to several legal experts about the GPL, and the experts have different opinions. He talked to the IP lawyer who helped draft the GPL. IMHO, that's better research than reading a mailing list.
As for the "portions" and "watering down" arguments, it's clear that he understands the concepts, but he is looking at it in terms of precedent. IE, would the legal concept of "fair use" weaken the GPL's intent?
In the end, it doesn't really matter what the GPL says if the court finds it unenforcible.
Of course client server has been dying lately in favor of web/application server solutions.
Sure this is a form of client/server, but the MS c/s server model was fat client, where you install a client program on 500 PCs, that take up 450megs on your PC for a "slim" install or 700megs for a full install, and require 64Meg ram to get by. This had the advantage of locking you into MS technology all around.
I also fail to see how NT is an improvement over VMS. VMS at least was a multi-user OS, and I never saw a VAX go down for anything except a hardware failure.