A big company does something, they send out a press release. Nothing new there, it is just that it is about Linux.
Now, that someone has come up with a bigmem patch that Linus will live with, THAT is news!
This is a big deal for some users. A real shocker will be if someone comes up with a patch to use the 36 bit addressing on the P6 cpu, for up to 64GB ram on Intel machines.
No, what this shows is that Microsoft continues to not care about security. Having your data on a profesesionally managed and backed up machine, that you pay for (so they feel some real enforceable obligation to you) is probably a good thing. Just don't trust MS to do it.
He answered this in a recent interview, it was a friend of his in an R&D group asking him if he wanted a job there. Nothing formal, just a friend offering a favor.
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Well, alot changed 2.0>2.2, if I were running a production server, I likely would not have switched to 2.2 until about now, if that (given that 2.2.6-9 or so may have had some nasty bugs). People who need uptime tend to be very conservative, and for good reason.
Yes, if you needed some of the new features, sure, you might have upgraded, but not otherwise.
Well, Adaptec owns most of the SCSI card market, with the former NCR/Symbios having a bit, and Mylex/Buslogic having yet another chunk. I do wory about the fate of the cheap end of the Mylex line, IBM knows how to sell the super high end, but not the in a box on the store shelf stuff. Adaptec is stupid (hidden revs on the 2940 meant that at one point not even NT could install with out a suplimental driver disk, let alone Linux) and greedy (like not even ASPI[basic dos scsi drivers] for free if your driver disk went bad for free. Free drivers for every other OS under the sun, but not dos). And of course it took them for ever to get with Linux.
I do not like the looks of this. IBM is still rather dumb, how ever pro Linux they may be.
Exactly. I read somewere (link from lwn.net?) of someone who had done a series of tests, and found that Linux does not perform well on load balencing across multiple NICs. With a single gigabit NIC, Linux would have done better, how much better, or how much better NT might have done, I don't have any idea.
On the one hand, I agree about the loonies, but if you think there are not plenty of loony and rude windows advocates out there, you have not looked! For a recent example, all the ranting about id releasing Quake 3 Arena Test for the Mac, then Linux, and then Win32. The howels and whining and slurs agains non windows platforms was astounding.
It is merely that on windows, they are dwarfed by the masses who think Word is an OS.
He knows what open source is, he has donated over $20,000 to the GNU project, for instance, and usually releases the source to his games after 4 years (though under a no comercial use licence). Also, he seems to have pioneered having games that were open enough for the users to come up with their own varients.
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A big company does something, they send out a press release. Nothing new there, it is just that it is about Linux.
Now, that someone has come up with a bigmem patch that Linus will live with, THAT is news!
This is a big deal for some users. A real shocker will be if someone comes up with a patch to use the 36 bit addressing on the P6 cpu, for up to 64GB ram on Intel machines.
No, what this shows is that Microsoft continues to not care about security. Having your data on a profesesionally managed and backed up machine, that you pay for (so they feel some real enforceable obligation to you) is probably a good thing. Just don't trust MS to do it.
He answered this in a recent interview, it was a friend of his in an R&D group asking him if he wanted a job there. Nothing formal, just a friend offering a favor.
Well, alot changed 2.0>2.2, if I were running a production server, I likely would not have switched to 2.2 until about now, if that (given that 2.2.6-9 or so may have had some nasty bugs). People who need uptime tend to be very conservative, and for good reason.
Yes, if you needed some of the new features, sure, you might have upgraded, but not otherwise.
In Research Triangle Park, just like Red Hat. I'd like one, though I would like the ability to run Mac software too.
What I really want is a PPC laptop, it should have much better speed/batter life than an x86 laptop.
Well, Adaptec owns most of the SCSI card market, with the former NCR/Symbios having a bit, and Mylex/Buslogic having yet another chunk. I do wory about the fate of the cheap end of the Mylex line, IBM knows how to sell the super high end, but not the in a box on the store shelf stuff. Adaptec is stupid (hidden revs on the 2940 meant that at one point not even NT could install with out a suplimental driver disk, let alone Linux) and greedy (like not even ASPI[basic dos scsi drivers] for free if your driver disk went bad for free. Free drivers for every other OS under the sun, but not dos). And of course it took them for ever to get with Linux.
I do not like the looks of this. IBM is still rather dumb, how ever pro Linux they may be.
No, I PAID them, to make my information accesable to the world, I own it, not them.
Exactly. I read somewere (link from lwn.net?) of someone who had done a series of tests, and found that Linux does not perform well on load balencing across multiple NICs. With a single gigabit NIC, Linux would have done better, how much better, or how much better NT might have done, I don't have any idea.
When she was busted by the Feds in Snow Crash, they give her full name, it is the same as the person in The Diamond Age.
On the one hand, I agree about the loonies, but if you think there are not plenty of loony and rude windows advocates out there, you have not looked! For a recent example, all the ranting about id releasing Quake 3 Arena Test for the Mac, then Linux, and then Win32. The howels and whining and slurs agains non windows platforms was astounding.
It is merely that on windows, they are dwarfed by the masses who think Word is an OS.
He knows what open source is, he has donated over $20,000 to the GNU project, for instance, and usually releases the source to his games after 4 years (though under a no comercial use licence). Also, he seems to have pioneered having games that were open enough for the users to come up with their own varients.
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