We have Japanese developers and translators at our Japan office, and Red Hat Linux is one of the biggest distributions in Japan - I've not seen any signs of Mandrake doing the same. AFAIK, Red Hat Linux is the only distribution in widespread use in Europe, the US and Japan.
Red Hat Linux 7.1 has integrated Japanese support
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great I have to download a japanese version of redhat just so I can veiw kanji ?
No, the distribution is the same. The difference between the CDs is just the default intro screen before you select languages, and AFAIR also the text installer. Graphical install in Japanese works fine with the standard Red Hat Linux distribution - and if you select support for Japanese, you can view it without any problems in e.g. mozilla.
Separating vendors like Dell from Linuxcare is a bit misleading, since Linuxcare IS Dell's Linuxcare support arm.
Actually, it's Red Hat. At some point you could choose Linuxcare instead, I'm not sure if you can anymore. Linuxcare is certainly not what they once was.
Perhaps the Service and Support model doesn't work for software, or at least certain kinds of software. Postgres was a developer's tool. Developer traditionally need less support than other user.
Oracle has a big consulting arm - you buy oracle first, which isn't cheap. Then you spend much more on their consulting afterwards
Is Suse in financial trouble? I haven't heard news indicating that they are.
They're not a public company, so there's no reason to tell anyone either (not that I know they are, I just know that there is a reason for shortage of public information on them)
I suspect performance characteristics will vary with how and what you use it for.
An example: When I did benchmarks with PostgreSQL 7.1.1/2 a couple of months ago, XFS and ext3 were of similar speed while ReiserFS was rather slow. OTOH, I'd expect ReiserFS to handle cases with lots of files in a directory faster than ext2. Also, the tailmerging in ReiserFS should save space (especially in situations with many small files), but is somewhat risky (there's been a few bugs in that part of the code) and will cost performance.
One of the big benefits of ext3 is that the filesystem isn't new, it's proven solid and has been around for a long time. Adding a journal layer isn't too risky, and it has been in testing (with good results) for a long time.
Postgres is ENTIRELY Free software, and is only licensed under the GPL, unlike MySQL, which has a commercial version, and the GPL version, and the closed source version, of which the GPL version is always behind.
Your statements are not correct:
PostgreSQL is not published under the GPL, but under a BSD license.
MySQL releases their standard releases as GPL now - they're not lagging behind a commercial product. You can however buy a non-GPL version if you want, as there is a single company owning the code (or having rights to it).
That said, I much prefer PostgreSQL - good transaction support (no switching of table types), subselects, foreign keys, better performance under load, triggers etc. are just some of the reason why it's a better database.
(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, which is selling a version of PostgreSQL.)
Complaining about the situation doesn't help... buying their games can. I've bought every one of their games (except EUS), and if more are releases (like Kohan and Halls of Valhalla), I'll buy them too. And you can still order from their web site. so orders now might help a bit.
Most sexy belongs to the Thinking Machines CM-5 "Blinking Machines":
Nah, the blinking lights on the CM-5 are pale imitations of the Intel Paragon - here you could see the dataflow between nodes visualized by the lights. Thinking Machines wanted that, but it became to complicated/costly - so they used a random algorithm instead.
The UN is so far off in la-la land that it voted the USA off the human rights commission and replaced it with Sudan!
Sudan wasn't competing with US for membership on the commission - US was competing with other European countries for "Western" spots.
After breaking or stating they intend to break international treaties (Kyoto, ban on nuclear tests, ABM) and in general not caring anything about the rest of the world, US won't get a lot of favors from Europe. Bush is making a great job of creating enemies of former allies with his right-wing views (some would say "extremist" views, and outside the US they would be correct).
Of course, the fact that the US didn't have an ambassador to the UN doesn't exactly make it more likely to gain allies in the fight for a place in the comittee - and for human rights, the fact that US is the worst in the west should make it pretty clear they didn't belong on the comitte (death penalty being a major issue - US' friends on this subject are China, Iran and Saudi Arabia)
Maybe this means that NASA will look into sending citizens into space now
That would be stupid. The total price of the trip (when including its part of the fixed costs) is much more than what he paid. Since these fixed costs have been paid, NASA needs to get as much research and testing done as possible for this money. Space Tourism the Tito way is not the way to go.
That wasn't the only possible good ending - I think the movie also could have successfully ended in the forest (when they walked towards the moon). An open ending like that would have been good... Or in the sea, just in front of his target. So close, yet so unreachable.
Unfortunately, it ended later - it almost looked like a test audience had demanded a somewhat happy looking ending. Bah.
"Red Hat Linux" is a very good way of getting to know exactly what in which versions are available. Same for others, although the smaller the distribution, the less likely it is to be useful.
MySQL does support transactions for some of the table types it supports, but it lacks other essentials like foreign keys and subselects. More details can be found in their docs
I wasn't implying that using tux dramatically reduces the possibilities for attack against your system - just that the number of possible ways to attack tux itself isn't that many: It doesn't include it's own kernel space indexing module, to give a contemporary example.
I'll be interested in these fast webservers when they can serve some sort of dynamic content. Until then, they're merely benchmark toys.
A big part of the specweb test is dynamic content, so it already deals well with that. Of course, you have to deal with this a specific way - therefore, the most common approach would be to have Tux forward any request to dynamic content to an Apache server on the same host listening on a different port.
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It was a snapshot, which was then QAed and patched selectively for some time before release - it was better than any other alternative at the time, as the compiler we shipped before was rather old, and 2.95.x was buggy. We also got support for IA64, so we didn't have to use lots of different compiler for different architectures.
The only thing wrong about what happened, was that we didn't properly communicate that this was a Red Hat, not an FSF, release. Other than that, it showed the power of free software by allowing us to do what we felt was needed and not being locked in- nothing wrong about that. It has served us well for two releases now - in the future, we will eventually move to gcc 3.0(.x?), but this was obviously not an available compiler back then.
PS: Since our initial release, Mandrake has done the switch as well.
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We have Japanese developers and translators at our Japan office, and Red Hat Linux is one of the biggest distributions in Japan - I've not seen any signs of Mandrake doing the same. AFAIK, Red Hat Linux is the only distribution in widespread use in Europe, the US and Japan.
great I have to download a japanese version of redhat just so I can veiw kanji ?
No, the distribution is the same. The difference between the CDs is just the default intro screen before you select languages, and AFAIR also the text installer. Graphical install in Japanese works fine with the standard Red Hat Linux distribution - and if you select support for Japanese, you can view it without any problems in e.g. mozilla.
Red Hat Linux 7.1 has Japanese support out of the box, and is one of the leading distros in Japan. We have developers in Japan, and it shows.
Separating vendors like Dell from Linuxcare is a bit misleading, since Linuxcare IS Dell's Linuxcare support arm.
Actually, it's Red Hat. At some point you could choose Linuxcare instead, I'm not sure if you can anymore. Linuxcare is certainly not what they once was.
Perhaps the Service and Support model doesn't work for software, or at least certain kinds of software. Postgres was a developer's tool. Developer traditionally need less support than other user.
Oracle has a big consulting arm - you buy oracle first, which isn't cheap. Then you spend much more on their consulting afterwards
If all goes so smooth, why not hire an experienced sysadmin inside, why outsorcing?
One doesn't exclude the other - in fact, our high end contracts include RHCE-certifications so we know we're dealing with someone who knows Linux.
Is Suse in financial trouble? I haven't heard news indicating that they are.
They're not a public company, so there's no reason to tell anyone either (not that I know they are, I just know that there is a reason for shortage of public information on them)
I suspect performance characteristics will vary with how and what you use it for.
An example: When I did benchmarks with PostgreSQL 7.1.1/2 a couple of months ago, XFS and ext3 were of similar speed while ReiserFS was rather slow. OTOH, I'd expect ReiserFS to handle cases with lots of files in a directory faster than ext2. Also, the tailmerging in ReiserFS should save space (especially in situations with many small files), but is somewhat risky (there's been a few bugs in that part of the code) and will cost performance.
One of the big benefits of ext3 is that the filesystem isn't new, it's proven solid and has been around for a long time. Adding a journal layer isn't too risky, and it has been in testing (with good results) for a long time.
Postgres is ENTIRELY Free software, and is only licensed under the GPL, unlike MySQL, which has a commercial version, and the GPL version, and the closed source version, of which the GPL version is always behind.
Your statements are not correct:
That said, I much prefer PostgreSQL - good transaction support (no switching of table types), subselects, foreign keys, better performance under load, triggers etc. are just some of the reason why it's a better database.
(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, which is selling a version of PostgreSQL.)
It's a commercial product, which needs revenue to Red Hat's cygwin pages.
Disclaimer: I work for the company producing it (Red Hat, Inc).
Complaining about the situation doesn't help... buying their games can. I've bought every one of their games (except EUS), and if more are releases (like Kohan and Halls of Valhalla), I'll buy them too. And you can still order from their web site. so orders now might help a bit.
Most sexy belongs to the Thinking Machines CM-5 "Blinking Machines":
Nah, the blinking lights on the CM-5 are pale imitations of the Intel Paragon - here you could see the dataflow between nodes visualized by the lights. Thinking Machines wanted that, but it became to complicated/costly - so they used a random algorithm instead.
The UN is so far off in la-la land that it voted the USA off the human rights commission and replaced it with Sudan!
Sudan wasn't competing with US for membership on the commission - US was competing with other European countries for "Western" spots.
After breaking or stating they intend to break international treaties (Kyoto, ban on nuclear tests, ABM) and in general not caring anything about the rest of the world, US won't get a lot of favors from Europe. Bush is making a great job of creating enemies of former allies with his right-wing views (some would say "extremist" views, and outside the US they would be correct).
Of course, the fact that the US didn't have an ambassador to the UN doesn't exactly make it more likely to gain allies in the fight for a place in the comittee - and for human rights, the fact that US is the worst in the west should make it pretty clear they didn't belong on the comitte (death penalty being a major issue - US' friends on this subject are China, Iran and Saudi Arabia)
Maybe this means that NASA will look into sending citizens into space now
That would be stupid. The total price of the trip (when including its part of the fixed costs) is much more than what he paid. Since these fixed costs have been paid, NASA needs to get as much research and testing done as possible for this money. Space Tourism the Tito way is not the way to go.
Unfortunately, it ended later - it almost looked like a test audience had demanded a somewhat happy looking ending. Bah.
For even more fun, take a look at the SAPDB sourcecode...
RedHat wants a DB. RedHat likes the GPL. There are good, GPL'd DB's available.
PostgreSQL isn't GPL, it has a BSDish license.
Bah... I had a version number placeholder there as well, but it (foo) was stripped as it wasn't an allowed (or intended) HTML tag.
"Red Hat Linux" is a very good way of getting to know exactly what in which versions are available. Same for others, although the smaller the distribution, the less likely it is to be useful.
MySQL is included with Red Hat Linux 7 and 7.1.
MySQL does support transactions for some of the table types it supports, but it lacks other essentials like foreign keys and subselects. More details can be found in their docs
I wasn't implying that using tux dramatically reduces the possibilities for attack against your system - just that the number of possible ways to attack tux itself isn't that many: It doesn't include it's own kernel space indexing module, to give a contemporary example.
Remember that for standard use, Tux would only serve static content - this drastically reduces the possibilities for attacks against it.
I'll be interested in these fast webservers when they can serve some sort of dynamic content. Until then, they're merely benchmark toys.
A big part of the specweb test is dynamic content, so it already deals well with that. Of course, you have to deal with this a specific way - therefore, the most common approach would be to have Tux forward any request to dynamic content to an Apache server on the same host listening on a different port.
It was a snapshot, which was then QAed and patched selectively for some time before release - it was better than any other alternative at the time, as the compiler we shipped before was rather old, and 2.95.x was buggy. We also got support for IA64, so we didn't have to use lots of different compiler for different architectures.
The only thing wrong about what happened, was that we didn't properly communicate that this was a Red Hat, not an FSF, release. Other than that, it showed the power of free software by allowing us to do what we felt was needed and not being locked in- nothing wrong about that. It has served us well for two releases now - in the future, we will eventually move to gcc 3.0(.x?), but this was obviously not an available compiler back then.
PS: Since our initial release, Mandrake has done the switch as well.