True, there are too many Linux distros. However you have to look at the company and the product to determine who'll survive. Red Hat is OUT. That's right. Red Hat is history. Why? There's lagging behind almost all other distros in terms of features and technology. The company itself has become too big and M$-like. Red Hat will not survive another three years; they will destroy themselves.
Distros that will survive are those which have people behind them who give a damn. Slackware, Suse, Mandrake, Debian. These will be the survivors.
We all realize that M$ is threatened by Linux. But why?
Why buy a buggy, nonstable OS when you can get a solid, stable one for free?
Open-Source means free thinking. M$ is afraid, very afraid of this.
"I hate M$" stigma common among the populace.
Do we really HATE M$? No. We dislike their "bully" attitude and want the freedom to create our own futures with our oven operating system.
After all, on April 4, 2000, The United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit rules in the case of Junger v. Daley that source code IS LEGALLY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH. I see the threat to M$ here. Don't you?
It's definately not IT's problem for burnout. It's repetition, non-advancement, static paychecks, a half-dozen managers above you that treat you like a number... Didn't any of you see Officespace?
"It looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately."
I use Yahoo almost exclusively and since they changed over to Google, the old links that I always used are not there anymore. Actually, nothing that I'm looking for is there anymore.
Freewwweb was my only ISP for years until the takeover of Juno. Angrily, I called Juno's toll-free technical support line. The slack-jawd yokel that answered the line didn't know what a "Linux" was, so I asked for a manager. The manager made the comment "Well, Linux isn't a *real* operating system."
Temporarily, I signed up with the only other Linux-friendly ISP (Basic PPP dialup) that I know of: Earthlink.
Any other PPP-dialup freebees out there that I don't know about???
This certainly sheds a whole new light on a few aspects of the film:
1) VC tests are friggin' useless. 2) With the proper programming, anything is possible. 3) Fans of the film have been emotionally drawn to an emotionless machine. 4) Now we have to watch the film a few more times to fully understand what the hell's going on. 5) Yes, I saw the Millenium Falcon in the film too. http://www.bladezone.com will show you were it is. 6) The character Deckard was so perfectly convincing that we must assume that he was running with a Linux kernel; The other Replicants with their emotional problems were all running Windows.
We've all suspected for a while; The editing of the film made scientifically proving Deckard was a Replicant probable but unknown, but dropping this bombshell destroyed my 15-year-old view of it.
It hurt, but it also warms me to know that the guessing is all over.
I honestly believe that the music industry is ready for an overhaul. No one can stop the free distribution of music over the WWW, so it may be prudent for the music industry to figure out some new way of profiting. Music may be released in MP3 format as a standard by bands directly, in a low quality compression format, making money from touring and advertising. This way, bands still make thier money. If an industry refuses to change with the times, the customers will recreate the industry in its vision.
While this may make an incredible advance in regeneration of tissue, muscles and other medicinal needs, I can see this already being secretly tested on humans. Enter: The next NBA stars that are 7-foot plus!
The USA has every right to pass a law that says Sealand is unfriendly and therefore all Internet backbone suppliers (Qwest, AT&T, UUNET, others) must block it. We'll probably never see the content due to the "special interest" groups in Washington DC.
Yes, Crusoe runs x86 code. What people don't understand is that the Crusoe is a revolutionary processor. The processor is a blank construct and the software that runs on the processor tells it what to emulate/run. It can easily (with the right code) emulate x86, Motorola for Macs, and probably even PalmOS if someone took the time to code the instruction set into software.
Crusoe reminds me of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Arnold's character was probably full of Crusoe processors. Skynet may be a reality someday. (Shudder)
Of course, Intel will try its best to bring out every conceivable processor between the current 733 and 1.0GHz model just to make money. They ALREADY HAVE the 1.2GHz ready to go. It would be so much easier just to release the IA-64 with a bus that equalled the Rambus memory at 800MHz already out. Unfortunately, they can't do this because it would leave tire tracks all over AMD and the DOJ will be all over Intel's CEO. Processor speeds and technology in general is being surpressed just to please government regulators and make a few more bucks on the side. What they don't realize is that it's pissing off the users. I want an IA-64 with an 800MHz bus and a few gigs of Rambus memory. Linux forever!
We expected this, didn't we? I never had a doubt... however we must look at this logically. Will MS be broken up or just given a slap on the wrist? Hopefully, this will usher in the Penguin Power monopoly. I love the legal system.
This lawsuit is going to be as powerful as blind people suing Ford for making cars for the blind. This just won't happen. I don't see a lot of merit with this lawsuit at all, I'm sure we all consider this a bit silly.
I found your article on Slashdot interesting... I too am in the same situation. I've named servers in an entire server farm Looney Tunes names, Star Trek names and even names of Anime characters from the Urotsukidoji series. One thing that I did was look at the temperment of the servers to name them. The server that always crashed (mail server) was named Kenny from South Park. hehehe
How dare a senior staff writer of CNN blast something publically because he is ignorant on the subject and the look of something scares him away. Everyone wonders why Linux gets a bad rap-- It is not the responsibility of a representative of CNN to do this. How unprofessional!
It's sad to see that Microsoft has probably struck another "exclusive" deal with another company. Qwest had such potential, too. I've personally been through similar ISP searches that would even be sympathetic to Linux. Take for example my current ISP (Let's throw a phony name in here...) ISPx. ISPx will only allow Microsoft operating systems to connect to it. It's a simple PPP dialup that can be connected to any Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2 box in the world. Once they find out that you're not running Windows, they pull the plug on you and you're not allowed to resign for service with them... forever. Does anyone know of a national ISP that will let Linux boxes to connect via straight PPP? Let me know, I need one!
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OS/2 is still better than Winblows.
How long before they declare bankruptcy and we all giggle and sing nekkid in the streets that they're now gone?
Distros that will survive are those which have people behind them who give a damn. Slackware, Suse, Mandrake, Debian. These will be the survivors.
Why buy a buggy, nonstable OS when you can get a solid, stable one for free?
Open-Source means free thinking. M$ is afraid, very afraid of this.
"I hate M$" stigma common among the populace.
Do we really HATE M$? No. We dislike their "bully" attitude and want the freedom to create our own futures with our oven operating system.
After all, on April 4, 2000, The United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit rules in the case of Junger v. Daley that source code IS LEGALLY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH. I see the threat to M$ here. Don't you?
Newsflash: Parade Of Penguins Pulverizes Redmond.
"It looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately."
"Well, Bob, I wouldn't say I've been missing it."
I guess it's back to Altavista.
It's not the employee's fault if the employer's too stupid not to make a policy against sending PGP-encrypted messages.
Temporarily, I signed up with the only other Linux-friendly ISP (Basic PPP dialup) that I know of: Earthlink.
Any other PPP-dialup freebees out there that I don't know about???
1) VC tests are friggin' useless.
2) With the proper programming, anything is possible.
3) Fans of the film have been emotionally drawn to an emotionless machine.
4) Now we have to watch the film a few more times to fully understand what the hell's going on.
5) Yes, I saw the Millenium Falcon in the film too. http://www.bladezone.com will show you were it is.
6) The character Deckard was so perfectly convincing that we must assume that he was running with a Linux kernel; The other Replicants with their emotional problems were all running Windows.
We've all suspected for a while; The editing of the film made scientifically proving Deckard was a Replicant probable but unknown, but dropping this bombshell destroyed my 15-year-old view of it.
It hurt, but it also warms me to know that the guessing is all over.
I honestly believe that the music industry is ready for an overhaul. No one can stop the free distribution of music over the WWW, so it may be prudent for the music industry to figure out some new way of profiting. Music may be released in MP3 format as a standard by bands directly, in a low quality compression format, making money from touring and advertising. This way, bands still make thier money. If an industry refuses to change with the times, the customers will recreate the industry in its vision.
While this may make an incredible advance in regeneration of tissue, muscles and other medicinal needs, I can see this already being secretly tested on humans. Enter: The next NBA stars that are 7-foot plus!
The USA has every right to pass a law that says Sealand is unfriendly and therefore all Internet backbone suppliers (Qwest, AT&T, UUNET, others) must block it. We'll probably never see the content due to the "special interest" groups in Washington DC.
Crusoe reminds me of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Arnold's character was probably full of Crusoe processors. Skynet may be a reality someday. (Shudder)
Of course, Intel will try its best to bring out every conceivable processor between the current 733 and 1.0GHz model just to make money. They ALREADY HAVE the 1.2GHz ready to go. It would be so much easier just to release the IA-64 with a bus that equalled the Rambus memory at 800MHz already out. Unfortunately, they can't do this because it would leave tire tracks all over AMD and the DOJ will be all over Intel's CEO. Processor speeds and technology in general is being surpressed just to please government regulators and make a few more bucks on the side. What they don't realize is that it's pissing off the users. I want an IA-64 with an 800MHz bus and a few gigs of Rambus memory.
Linux forever!
We expected this, didn't we? I never had a doubt... however we must look at this logically. Will MS be broken up or just given a slap on the wrist?
Hopefully, this will usher in the Penguin Power monopoly. I love the legal system.
This lawsuit is going to be as powerful as blind people suing Ford for making cars for the blind. This just won't happen.
I don't see a lot of merit with this lawsuit at all, I'm sure we all consider this a bit silly.
I found your article on Slashdot interesting... I too am in the same situation. I've named servers in an entire server farm Looney Tunes names, Star Trek names and even names of Anime characters from the Urotsukidoji series. One thing that I did was look at the temperment of the servers to name them. The server that always crashed (mail server) was named Kenny from South Park. hehehe
How dare a senior staff writer of CNN blast something publically because he is ignorant on the subject and the look of something scares him away. Everyone wonders why Linux gets a bad rap-- It is not the responsibility of a representative of CNN to do this. How unprofessional!
It's sad to see that Microsoft has probably struck another "exclusive" deal with another company. Qwest had such potential, too. I've personally been through similar ISP searches that would even be sympathetic to Linux. Take for example my current ISP (Let's throw a phony name in here...) ISPx. ISPx will only allow Microsoft operating systems to connect to it. It's a simple PPP dialup that can be connected to any Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2 box in the world. Once they find out that you're not running Windows, they pull the plug on you and you're not allowed to resign for service with them... forever. Does anyone know of a national ISP that will let Linux boxes to connect via straight PPP? Let me know, I need one!