Non-issue, for the major software and desktops can run apps intended for one on the others. Can run KDE apps under GNOME, versa vice. 75% of linux desktop users use GNOME or GNOME compatible thing anyway. Most of the world is going to go mobile anyway, Linux has huge edge there.
Plenty of distros are getting into other desktops due to concerns about GNOME, KDE, Unity. Debian has LXDE and Xfce4 version, Linux Mint has xfce, just for a couple examples. There are other awesome desktops too.
Those Israeli Kibbutz act within a realm supported by capitalism and also billions in overt and covert aid. So funny a first world country like Israel is such a bunch of moochers.
What did it get you? The ability to write any kind of business, scientific or engineering software. For example, due to limitations of proprietary based construction scheduling and estimating systems at the time, I wrote better systems in TP used to schedule tens of millions of dollars of construction at a national lab over ten year period, and it was used even after I left.
It evolved into Delphi, which still could be set to do the Turbo-Pascal object model.
If you miss TP, Freepascal can do the "Borland Turbo Pascal-style" dialect. http://www.freepascal.org/
I doubt they developed even 5% of the software in their distribution, including kernel contributions. Whether they're really an "expert" when most of it isn't theirs is debatable. I've never needed RedHat support for anything, and I've spent the last ten years deploying it in places like major city datacenters, projects in the millions of dollars.
China of course has Oligarchs and Plutocrats. All major "communist" systems have them. That's because real communism can't exist on anything on the scale bigger than a hippie commune.
I do just that at my job, my employer is a VAR and as part of the "value-add" we deploy, configure, migrate on the scale of hundreds of machines. Of course that includes many OS, GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Unix, System i, etc. Our clients include governments (state and municipal), and school districts and of course many other types of corporations.
So buy your Linux support from a company with tens of millions or more in revenue. My employer is one such place, we support major GNU/Linux distributions including Debian, Centos, Scientific Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, SuSE, Mandriva and have clients in municipal government, manufacturing, healthcare, and insurance.
oooo, but I saw that episode when it was first aired. So I can use my geezer cred to say Unity and GNOME and KDE have all "jumped the shark". Hell I remember early graphics on green round phosphor scopes hooked to mainframes that were a better UI than that shit.......
funny, I have a Pentium II Toshiba laptop running Puppy Linux with 233MHz processor and 128MB RAM, circa 1997. It even plays DVDs and youtube flash. I mainly used it when configuring big iron with serial port initially and then as "server" for patches once the networking gets configured. I'd say you're full of shit, there are distros which nicely serve the low end machines
your talking about something that "will be dropped", hasn't happened yet. That means distributions of GNU/Linux exist *now* that support that chip just fine. So what's your point? Maybe Windows 9 won't support the i810 either...
Here's your loud answer. You can buy all the support for GNU/Linux you want same as any proprietary software. The actual designers and coders of OS/400 (now System i) and other proprietary OS don't support their work either, others in their company do.
Red Hat is the free rider, most of what you get in their distro didn't come from them. Debian gives more than Red Hat. Red Hat could die, and GNU/LInux will go on.
Because we in the USA are dumb-asses, we need Constitutional amendment to change the name of the country to the U.S. of D.A. Meanwhile, several other countries are ramping up that technology, too bad we wasted a few decades not advancing it. Energy drives progress.
uh huh, and that's why a couple clients in east asia pay me and a few dozen others some big bucks to code middleware for multi-tier systems. Ruby is red hot in some parts of the world, but maybe you only travel to your relatives for holidays.
Are you obtuse? There are plenty of consumer device operating systems without a browser, for example your car's OS doesn't have a browser. Are you one of those "Thars only tree operatin sysumz in the werld, Winders and Linooks an dat frewtee Apple shitz". You think all computers are Wintel boxes with a graphics card for your games and a DVD burner for your porn? This is supposed to be a tech site, but instead we're infested with you consumer crap buyers, you think "building a system" means plugging in your nVidia card.
you can get 12.6 KWh per pound of chubby Maria body fat, if you burn it as biofuel. Maybe opening a liposuction facility behind taco stands is the answer. Fat girls go in, energy and hot latinas come out. win-win.
99%+ of those funds that were NOT involved in a scandal
Haha, you are so naive. Of course there are other scandals in the pipe from this blatant Democrat crony enrichment program (and yes Republicans are worse). Fisker and Tesla, and more to come. I'm from Crook County, IL, and I know how the scum work. You "progressive liberals" opened the sewer by voting in Obama (who is neither progressive nor liberal but a bitch to the wealthy fat cats) and now the chicago turds have flowed into washington.
Really, nothing new (in the sense of requiring new type of analysis) since you studied EE? You must be very young, the latest thing to blow my mind was fractal antenna and their theory in 1999. When I was in college almost 30 years ago, the only way to get that kind of wideband response was with equiangular antennae. it is now realized the yagi and such arrays sort of fall into fractal family, but that's another tale
haha, Ruby is older than Java for anyone outside of Sun, was "born" February 1993 compared to release of Java 1.0 in 1995. Ruby is going strong, but not sure about that web framework known as "Rails", the other scripting language's major web frameworks can do everything it can do.
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I tried that algorithm, but my spatula blue-screened and worked work any more
Non-issue, for the major software and desktops can run apps intended for one on the others. Can run KDE apps under GNOME, versa vice. 75% of linux desktop users use GNOME or GNOME compatible thing anyway. Most of the world is going to go mobile anyway, Linux has huge edge there.
Plenty of distros are getting into other desktops due to concerns about GNOME, KDE, Unity. Debian has LXDE and Xfce4 version, Linux Mint has xfce, just for a couple examples. There are other awesome desktops too.
Those Israeli Kibbutz act within a realm supported by capitalism and also billions in overt and covert aid. So funny a first world country like Israel is such a bunch of moochers.
What did it get you? The ability to write any kind of business, scientific or engineering software. For example, due to limitations of proprietary based construction scheduling and estimating systems at the time, I wrote better systems in TP used to schedule tens of millions of dollars of construction at a national lab over ten year period, and it was used even after I left.
It evolved into Delphi, which still could be set to do the Turbo-Pascal object model. If you miss TP, Freepascal can do the "Borland Turbo Pascal-style" dialect. http://www.freepascal.org/
If they go open source the government will never have to buy licenses again with taxpayer's money. This benefits the taxpayer
I doubt they developed even 5% of the software in their distribution, including kernel contributions. Whether they're really an "expert" when most of it isn't theirs is debatable. I've never needed RedHat support for anything, and I've spent the last ten years deploying it in places like major city datacenters, projects in the millions of dollars.
China of course has Oligarchs and Plutocrats. All major "communist" systems have them. That's because real communism can't exist on anything on the scale bigger than a hippie commune.
I do just that at my job, my employer is a VAR and as part of the "value-add" we deploy, configure, migrate on the scale of hundreds of machines. Of course that includes many OS, GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Unix, System i, etc. Our clients include governments (state and municipal), and school districts and of course many other types of corporations.
And Redhat uses some Debian things. And RedHat includes and takes advantage of thousands of open source projects not their own.
So buy your Linux support from a company with tens of millions or more in revenue. My employer is one such place, we support major GNU/Linux distributions including Debian, Centos, Scientific Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, SuSE, Mandriva and have clients in municipal government, manufacturing, healthcare, and insurance.
so instead over time the taxpayers get benefit instead? and this is bad how?
oooo, but I saw that episode when it was first aired. So I can use my geezer cred to say Unity and GNOME and KDE have all "jumped the shark". Hell I remember early graphics on green round phosphor scopes hooked to mainframes that were a better UI than that shit.......
funny, I have a Pentium II Toshiba laptop running Puppy Linux with 233MHz processor and 128MB RAM, circa 1997. It even plays DVDs and youtube flash. I mainly used it when configuring big iron with serial port initially and then as "server" for patches once the networking gets configured. I'd say you're full of shit, there are distros which nicely serve the low end machines
your talking about something that "will be dropped", hasn't happened yet. That means distributions of GNU/Linux exist *now* that support that chip just fine. So what's your point? Maybe Windows 9 won't support the i810 either...
Here's your loud answer. You can buy all the support for GNU/Linux you want same as any proprietary software. The actual designers and coders of OS/400 (now System i) and other proprietary OS don't support their work either, others in their company do.
Red Hat is the free rider, most of what you get in their distro didn't come from them. Debian gives more than Red Hat. Red Hat could die, and GNU/LInux will go on.
Because we in the USA are dumb-asses, we need Constitutional amendment to change the name of the country to the U.S. of D.A. Meanwhile, several other countries are ramping up that technology, too bad we wasted a few decades not advancing it. Energy drives progress.
uh huh, and that's why a couple clients in east asia pay me and a few dozen others some big bucks to code middleware for multi-tier systems. Ruby is red hot in some parts of the world, but maybe you only travel to your relatives for holidays.
Are you obtuse? There are plenty of consumer device operating systems without a browser, for example your car's OS doesn't have a browser. Are you one of those "Thars only tree operatin sysumz in the werld, Winders and Linooks an dat frewtee Apple shitz". You think all computers are Wintel boxes with a graphics card for your games and a DVD burner for your porn? This is supposed to be a tech site, but instead we're infested with you consumer crap buyers, you think "building a system" means plugging in your nVidia card.
you can get 12.6 KWh per pound of chubby Maria body fat, if you burn it as biofuel. Maybe opening a liposuction facility behind taco stands is the answer. Fat girls go in, energy and hot latinas come out. win-win.
99%+ of those funds that were NOT involved in a scandal
Haha, you are so naive. Of course there are other scandals in the pipe from this blatant Democrat crony enrichment program (and yes Republicans are worse). Fisker and Tesla, and more to come. I'm from Crook County, IL, and I know how the scum work. You "progressive liberals" opened the sewer by voting in Obama (who is neither progressive nor liberal but a bitch to the wealthy fat cats) and now the chicago turds have flowed into washington.
Really, nothing new (in the sense of requiring new type of analysis) since you studied EE? You must be very young, the latest thing to blow my mind was fractal antenna and their theory in 1999. When I was in college almost 30 years ago, the only way to get that kind of wideband response was with equiangular antennae. it is now realized the yagi and such arrays sort of fall into fractal family, but that's another tale
haha, Ruby is older than Java for anyone outside of Sun, was "born" February 1993 compared to release of Java 1.0 in 1995. Ruby is going strong, but not sure about that web framework known as "Rails", the other scripting language's major web frameworks can do everything it can do.