Posted on 11/23/2005 4:35:13 AM PST by StoneGiant
That's right buy a computer that doesn't play well with others, unless you buy apple accessories i.e. What to display your iBook screen on a projector? You have to have an Apple adapter
Linux on Opterons rule these days, and that is what the Wall Street guys are buying to replace their N processor Solaris boxes...
Just set up a cuouple of servers on Fedora Core 4. Nice system, especially considering its free. In addition to that, you still get free patches and fixes through Redhat's up2date program.
... which is shipped with every iBook. They had to eliminate the ancient, clunky VGA adapter to get the size down. But want to talk interoperability with accessories? Apple pioneered both USB and Firewire.
You cant duck forever! and we will be here when you stick tour targe... err head back up ;)
$ uname -a SunOS w3p11 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 $ uptime 10:09am up 1153 day(s), 18:09, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.02 $
Well youer using up2daet (a redhat program) but youre not pulling the patches off of RHN (redhats services) youre pulling them of of Fedora's site through, I believe, yum..
Holy cow! w3p11 has been up for over three years straight!
Impressive uptime! I think my running average on the Linux boxes I have are about 170 days before I do my semiannual kernel patches (unless there is someting severe that I cant harden through sysctl.conf)
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
I can't believe that a site called Linux Watch would say bad things about Microsoft.
Who would have thunk it?
LOL
LOL it took you six days to find this dribble? How come, the internet is full of whiners who insist Lunix is going to take over the world any day now, have been for years. Fact is though, Lunix can't even handle putting Solaris down, much less Windows.
We had a couple of AIX boxes that had to be rebooted a while back. They'd been up for 5+ years. The admins were afraid to reboot because it had been so long. One of those boxes had some weirdness going on with it. For some reason it thought it had been up for 11,000 years. I figure that was a bug. Not even AIX is that stable. ;-)
You do know China takes a free copy of Red Hat and renames it Red Flag over there? Don't have to pay a dime back to the US either.
Your verb tense is wrong.
How do I patch a Kernel and why would I want to?
Why wouldn't I turn my computer off at the end of the day if I'm not a file server that needs to run 24/7?
Does Linux run the latest version of Doom?
How about Hitman 2: Silent Assassin? (a personal fave)
Why can't Knoppix carry the good version of Mahjong (Gnome)?
I hate to ask these things in a Linux thread, but I still can't find any reason that the vast, vast majority of computer users need Linux or a computer that runs for years without shutting off. (other than playing Gnome Mahjong which is great)
We had a similar experience moving a ten year old AIX box the disk had been powered for years and when we went to a new data center we were sure we would lose a few of them... Amazingly it went off without a hitch..
figure that was a bug. Not even AIX is that stable. ;-) Or is it ???????
He might also know that redhat did not design the Linux Kernel or 95% of whats on their distro they also received it for free fomr *gasp* another country..
JASA - Just Another Silly Article trying to say Microsoft platforms are not productive and useable. The funny thing, though, is that millions of people use Microsoft products and technologies everyday and do just fine. Why is it the Linux crowd has such a hard time with Microsoft?
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