Who will HP pick? Madriva or Fedora maybe. If I were HP (I'm only a shareholder), I'd go with Centos and target the enterprise. Fedora (my personal favorite) moves too quickly for that environment.
An alternative perspective - suppose I'm an MS customer, yet I decide I need a Linux-based system for enterprise-level business-critical task. Which Linux-based OS do I choose? Well, when my friendly MS rep hands me a coupon for SuSE, I don't think I'd be doing much looking elsewhere.
Disclaimer: I'm a Fedora user; I'd choose RedHat or Centos
I ask this out of ignorance - how difficult would it be for Novell (or even Microsoft) to maintain (by which I mean security updates only), say, for a couple of years, forks of the last GPLv2 versions of Samba, the GNU coreutils, and tar?
I would, but as soon as I opened the cover of the book containing Canadian Coins, the Secret Service busted down my front door, came rushing in, and confiscated the book. They were going to take me too, but I convinced them that the book belonged to my Chinese friend.
It's one thing to talk about increased H2S production, but that totally fails to address the question, "where did the O2 go?" The article describes the displacement of dissolved O2 by dissolved H2S in anoxic oceans, which is fine as far as it goes. However, unless large reservoirs of elemental carbon (or CO or CH4) are being oxidized to produce CO2 in large quantities, the result should be an increased atmospheric O2 concentration. Perhaps volcanic activity resulted in such an outpouring of CO2 that it dwarfed the O2 forced into the atmosphere by the anoxic oceans, resulting in the increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations inferred by the rock record. Or perhaps the inferred cause and effect relationship is not nearly as simple as the article makes it out to be.
"...no open source project had fewer software defects than proprietary code." just does not match TFA.
AMANDA,emacs, ntp, OpenMotif, OpenPAM, Overdose, Postfix, ProFTPD, Samba, Subversion, tcl, Thunderbird, vim, XMMS all now with 0 defect reports/KLOC. That must match the best closed source software!
Ok, I'm going to qualify that a bit - no Office for Linux within the next three years. Let's revisit this topic in three years and see who's the better prognosticator - Stuart Cohen or me.
The first computer I ever owned was a Basis 108 - an Apple ][ Plus close with a built-in Z-80 card, that I bought in 1982. The first I ever used was UCLA's IBM 360 back in 1975 when I was taking my first (and only) programming class - PL/1
Samuel Wright Bodman was sworn in as the 11th Secretary of Energy on February 1, 2005...
Born in 1938 in Chicago, he graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. In 1965, he completed his ScD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT...
IANAE, but I walways thought that a CE was an engineer
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no, it is a scientific theory - unlike "creation"
An alternative perspective - suppose I'm an MS customer, yet I decide I need a Linux-based system for enterprise-level business-critical task. Which Linux-based OS do I choose? Well, when my friendly MS rep hands me a coupon for SuSE, I don't think I'd be doing much looking elsewhere. Disclaimer: I'm a Fedora user; I'd choose RedHat or Centos
I ask this out of ignorance - how difficult would it be for Novell (or even Microsoft) to maintain (by which I mean security updates only), say, for a couple of years, forks of the last GPLv2 versions of Samba, the GNU coreutils, and tar?
Attention non-Walmart Shoppers - Walmart already sells HP computers
4.7? As in 4.77MHz? Those were the days.
Could someone who has one of these coupons please show us what they look like?
I don't expect Dell to be doing much of the Ubuntu support at all; I think that's going to be Canonical's role
I would, but as soon as I opened the cover of the book containing Canadian Coins, the Secret Service busted down my front door, came rushing in, and confiscated the book. They were going to take me too, but I convinced them that the book belonged to my Chinese friend.
As an American, it pains me to confess that not only am I not terrified of foreign coins, I actually have a collection of them
H2S is oxidized to SO3 in the atmosphere which then combines with H2O to produce H2SO4 unless the toxic clouds of H2S take too long to oxidize
It's one thing to talk about increased H2S production, but that totally fails to address the question, "where did the O2 go?" The article describes the displacement of dissolved O2 by dissolved H2S in anoxic oceans, which is fine as far as it goes. However, unless large reservoirs of elemental carbon (or CO or CH4) are being oxidized to produce CO2 in large quantities, the result should be an increased atmospheric O2 concentration. Perhaps volcanic activity resulted in such an outpouring of CO2 that it dwarfed the O2 forced into the atmosphere by the anoxic oceans, resulting in the increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations inferred by the rock record. Or perhaps the inferred cause and effect relationship is not nearly as simple as the article makes it out to be.
"...no open source project had fewer software defects than proprietary code." just does not match TFA. AMANDA,emacs, ntp, OpenMotif, OpenPAM, Overdose, Postfix, ProFTPD, Samba, Subversion, tcl, Thunderbird, vim, XMMS all now with 0 defect reports/KLOC. That must match the best closed source software!
the enemy of my enemy is my enemy
Math/Statistics graduate students taking multiple choice exams? Not too likely
I've used Puppy Linux successfully on my old laptop (haven't tried to do wireless, though). Browser is Mozilla SeaMonkey. Of course, YMMV.
+1
I can't answer your second question, but the answer to the first question is 100%
Ok, I'm going to qualify that a bit - no Office for Linux within the next three years. Let's revisit this topic in three years and see who's the better prognosticator - Stuart Cohen or me.
The first computer I ever owned was a Basis 108 - an Apple ][ Plus close with a built-in Z-80 card, that I bought in 1982. The first I ever used was UCLA's IBM 360 back in 1975 when I was taking my first (and only) programming class - PL/1
Samuel Wright Bodman was sworn in as the 11th Secretary of Energy on February 1, 2005 ...
Born in 1938 in Chicago, he graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. In 1965, he completed his ScD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT ...
IANAE, but I walways thought that a CE was an engineer