I can think of many tasks a human can do much faster than any computer. computers can't even do a good trolling on slashdot or direct horrid sequels to Spielberg movies.
humans have been running in parallel on problems for thousands of years, we call it a tribe or community.
immortality? computers don't even last 30 years, feel sorry for any in space for a hundred. they don't have infallible memory either, solid state memory fails, magnetic memory loses direction
many of our large clients (hundreds to thousands of users) are going to thin clients. They run Linux, so there's your Linux on desktop (oftentimes delivering a Citrix virtual desktop running a windows app, haha)
add to that the PDA and cell phones running Linux, and Linux is a huge player in end user computing, but maybe not the way some had hoped.....
why not just use the old RedHat 7 or similar that ran that moldy ol' 2.95.3? if you're behind firewall shouldn't be problem as long as you're not too intimate with internet
actually, you can still buy the 2.88MB floppy drive, IBM MF356F-815MB, but it's $130. The SCSI TEAC FD-235J 5604 2.88MB SCSI floppy can be had for $290
the countdown to second economic Depression is half as many months away, so no worries. Those living in cities will be way too worried about from where the next meal is coming to give a shit about address space exhaustion.
any implementation of an X server has been full of holes and dangers, only an idiot runs X server on a server. Learn the command line, you pussies! Run X server somewhere else!
needs "guest additions" to run under Virtualbox, like most things
I predict no one will be writing new device drivers for OpenSolaris, the parrot has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain, gone joined the choir invisible....
you're joking, right? Check out how small the OpenSOlaris HCL is sometime. The disk controller list only has 75 entries! Plenty of Adaptec controllers won't work, plenty of fiber channel HBA won't work, plenty of HP and Compaq smart array won't work, etc. etc. etc.
the "trying" has to do with getting comfortable with it, and remember even for experienced Solaris admins there were new and different things added to the first release of OpenSolaris
A "plain vanilla intel box" can very well have a hard disk controller or network card or usb device that isn't supported by OpenSolaris. Speaking as a very long time SunOS/Solaris admin who has tried OpenSolaris on a few boxes and under vmware (which for awhile also had issues) I can tell you it was a very mixed bag of success and failure.
Ah well, it was too little too late by Sun, they should have done something back in 1995 or so.....
sadly no, that's not how GNU/Linux got into the mainstream datacenter and that's not how OpenSolaris would have. Some IT staff would need to be able to try it out on pulled old server, old desktop, white box, home PC.....
Open Source Curious Newbie: "I wish to make a complaint"
OpenSolaris Developer/Community Fanboi in the Forum: "Sorry, we're closing for lunch"
Newbie: "Never mind that, my man. I wish to complain about this OpenSolaris Distro, what I downloaded not half an hour ago from this very user's group website."
Fanboi : Oh yes, the, ah, the 2009.06... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Newbie: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my man. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Fanboi: "No, no, it's ah... it's in code freeze"
Newbie : Look, matey, I know a dead OS distro when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Fanboi : No no, it-it's not dead, it's frozen!
Newb : Frozen?
Fanboi : Y-yeah, 'in freeze' Remarkable OS, the 2009.06, isn't it, eh? Beautiful features for the future!
Newb : The future features don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Fanboi : Nononono, no, no! it's source tree commit is just turned off temporarily!
not to mention having lawmakers in the pockets of certain mega-corporations and billionaire elites isn't capitalism either, that's plutocracy and oligarchy.
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I can think of many tasks a human can do much faster than any computer. computers can't even do a good trolling on slashdot or direct horrid sequels to Spielberg movies.
humans have been running in parallel on problems for thousands of years, we call it a tribe or community.
immortality? computers don't even last 30 years, feel sorry for any in space for a hundred. they don't have infallible memory either, solid state memory fails, magnetic memory loses direction
many of our large clients (hundreds to thousands of users) are going to thin clients. They run Linux, so there's your Linux on desktop (oftentimes delivering a Citrix virtual desktop running a windows app, haha)
add to that the PDA and cell phones running Linux, and Linux is a huge player in end user computing, but maybe not the way some had hoped.....
waste of time to make a machine with those properties, biological machines already exist and can be replicated cheaply with unskilled labor.
in short, just a few minor tweaks to a biological system, and then we don't need to manufacture computers or robots
the coming revolution will be in biology, not information systems
why not just use the old RedHat 7 or similar that ran that moldy ol' 2.95.3? if you're behind firewall shouldn't be problem as long as you're not too intimate with internet
but wear a few and it's a bondage-chick magnet
a wrist thingie can actually be a very effective contraceptive, if wrapped around the appropriate appendage and cinched tight enough.
my Pink Elephant cables have turned out to be a mixed bag, they're only an effective repellent during the work week, when I'm sober.
also try an anti-static bag and let us know how it goes. most geeks have loads of those we're saving
actually, you can still buy the 2.88MB floppy drive, IBM MF356F-815MB, but it's $130. The SCSI TEAC FD-235J 5604 2.88MB SCSI floppy can be had for $290
the countdown to second economic Depression is half as many months away, so no worries. Those living in cities will be way too worried about from where the next meal is coming to give a shit about address space exhaustion.
any implementation of an X server has been full of holes and dangers, only an idiot runs X server on a server. Learn the command line, you pussies! Run X server somewhere else!
needs "guest additions" to run under Virtualbox, like most things
I predict no one will be writing new device drivers for OpenSolaris, the parrot has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain, gone joined the choir invisible....
it's dead, jim.
you're joking, right? Check out how small the OpenSOlaris HCL is sometime. The disk controller list only has 75 entries! Plenty of Adaptec controllers won't work, plenty of fiber channel HBA won't work, plenty of HP and Compaq smart array won't work, etc. etc. etc.
the "trying" has to do with getting comfortable with it, and remember even for experienced Solaris admins there were new and different things added to the first release of OpenSolaris
A "plain vanilla intel box" can very well have a hard disk controller or network card or usb device that isn't supported by OpenSolaris. Speaking as a very long time SunOS/Solaris admin who has tried OpenSolaris on a few boxes and under vmware (which for awhile also had issues) I can tell you it was a very mixed bag of success and failure.
Ah well, it was too little too late by Sun, they should have done something back in 1995 or so.....
sadly no, that's not how GNU/Linux got into the mainstream datacenter and that's not how OpenSolaris would have. Some IT staff would need to be able to try it out on pulled old server, old desktop, white box, home PC.....
But OpenSolaris only supports a miniscule amount of the x86 hardware that Linux does, not even talking about laptops where things just get abysmal
to be fair, there was OpenSolaris for PowerPC project in the works
Open Source Curious Newbie: "I wish to make a complaint"
OpenSolaris Developer/Community Fanboi in the Forum: "Sorry, we're closing for lunch"
Newbie: "Never mind that, my man. I wish to complain about this OpenSolaris Distro, what I downloaded not half an hour ago from this very user's group website."
Fanboi : Oh yes, the, ah, the 2009.06... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Newbie: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my man. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Fanboi: "No, no, it's ah... it's in code freeze"
Newbie : Look, matey, I know a dead OS distro when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Fanboi : No no, it-it's not dead, it's frozen!
Newb : Frozen?
Fanboi : Y-yeah, 'in freeze' Remarkable OS, the 2009.06, isn't it, eh? Beautiful features for the future!
Newb : The future features don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Fanboi : Nononono, no, no! it's source tree commit is just turned off temporarily!
It's very good, on an UltraSparc. On an x86, it's a mixed bag depending on your hardware. On anything else, forget it.
see, the Onion could write an article: "OpenSolaris Governance Board Ultimatum Swiftly Moves Oracle To Action!"
but can you do anything about the SMELL? it's getting rather intense over here in Chicago
since the quality of the storytelling has dropped, the technical quality of the presentation is raised.
but the truth is that a good radio story show from half a century ago, or book, is far superior to 99% of the entertainment crap marketed today.
However, the current market consists mostly of morons who are pained to use their mind
well, I"m well over 40 and I never confuse my electric mails with my inter-tubers.
the young people like cell phones and what goes with it: texting, pictures, movies, games, voice calls.
the wired world is getting to be for old farts, the information superhighway is starting to fill up with old coots in their old Cadillacs.
not to mention having lawmakers in the pockets of certain mega-corporations and billionaire elites isn't capitalism either, that's plutocracy and oligarchy.
go when a toe-tappin' Republican coworker does and have an even better time