Are you sure that you're looking at the right Wikipedia page? I was curious about the GP's claims, too, so I checked out the reference. I don't see the content warning that you're talking about, [snip]
It has the "content warning" right at the top of the article:
This article is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states the Wikipedia editor's particular feelings about a topic, rather than the opinions of experts. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. (December 2007)
It's the boilerplate from "{{Essay-like|date=December 2007}}" according to the Edit page.
For the record, I do use and prefer KDE, but every copy of CentOS 5 or 6, since it's the default. I do have some CentOS 5 servers where I use KDE inside of VNC. But the KDE that's part of CentOS 6 is very unstable in my experience with plasma-desktop crashing frequently.
And why is having more than one review a bad thing? I'd rather see two decent reviews of the same book (and especially a book as encompassing as this) than one sorry review of a bad book.
It all depends on what part of the "agency" you're talking about. Certainly, there's a lot of push to move to MS on desktop-type systems.
But mission systems are a different matter. To start with, you're talking in some cases about systems that have been deployed for decades. What my company (and we're not alone) has been doing for the last 7 years is migrating these custom OS/HW systems to COTS platforms. In the sonar arena (think the sonar workstations in The Hunt for Red October), we have progressively moved the signal processing systems from custom systems to embedded (VxWorks and Mercury) to Solaris and SGI prototypes to Linux on Intel. Currently deploying systems are using Linux on Compaq Proliant 8500 8-way boxes. The next refresh will be to multiple dual-CPU P4 Xeon boxes communicating over Gigabit Copper Ethernet. Expect to see Itanium-based units in a couple of years. All of this is saving the Navy a lot of money while dramatically improving the capabilities of the fleet.
And it's not stopping there. Plenty of other onboard systems, both in the surface and undersea communities, are moving from outdated one-of-a-kind systems to commodity hardware encapsulated in survivable enclosures.
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Not quite sure what you're trying to say there, but I've used 5 & 6 and both have Gnome as the default.
Thankfully, still version 2.xx
That's exactly what I was trying to say, but somehow the word "Gnome" didn't make it from brain to keyboard.
Are you sure that you're looking at the right Wikipedia page? I was curious about the GP's claims, too, so I checked out the reference. I don't see the content warning that you're talking about, [snip]
It has the "content warning" right at the top of the article:
It's the boilerplate from "{{Essay-like|date=December 2007}}" according to the Edit page.
For the record, I do use and prefer KDE, but every copy of CentOS 5 or 6, since it's the default. I do have some CentOS 5 servers where I use KDE inside of VNC. But the KDE that's part of CentOS 6 is very unstable in my experience with plasma-desktop crashing frequently.
And why is having more than one review a bad thing? I'd rather see two decent reviews of the same book (and especially a book as encompassing as this) than one sorry review of a bad book.
It all depends on what part of the "agency" you're talking about. Certainly, there's a lot of push to move to MS on desktop-type systems.
But mission systems are a different matter. To start with, you're talking in some cases about systems that have been deployed for decades. What my company (and we're not alone) has been doing for the last 7 years is migrating these custom OS/HW systems to COTS platforms. In the sonar arena (think the sonar workstations in The Hunt for Red October), we have progressively moved the signal processing systems from custom systems to embedded (VxWorks and Mercury) to Solaris and SGI prototypes to Linux on Intel. Currently deploying systems are using Linux on Compaq Proliant 8500 8-way boxes. The next refresh will be to multiple dual-CPU P4 Xeon boxes communicating over Gigabit Copper Ethernet. Expect to see Itanium-based units in a couple of years. All of this is saving the Navy a lot of money while dramatically improving the capabilities of the fleet.
Do a quick Google search for Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion.
And it's not stopping there. Plenty of other onboard systems, both in the surface and undersea communities, are moving from outdated one-of-a-kind systems to commodity hardware encapsulated in survivable enclosures.