New Linux study suggests fundamental Microsoft credibility problems

Linux Watch ^ | 11/17/2005 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[N3WBI3]

You mean like the 'Hundreds of Developers'??

[sticker]

"which is shipped with every iBook"

Which most users precede to lose and then whine and complain because they can't display their screen. Except for the G4Power Books and desktops Apple has never used standard video outputs. I had one situation where Apple didn't bother to tell anyone they had changed pin assignments on the video adapter in the middle of a model run. This was a multi-system project and it took us over two weeks to get Apple to acknowledge the change

[Golden Eagle]

Your pronoun is wrong

No it's not, just over your head apparently.

[Golden Eagle]

Yes, according to here and elsewhere Red Hat has a few hundred paid developers working on Linux that they subsequently give away to China for free. I already gave another link showing they contribute more to Linux than any other entity. You knew all this all along, too, I don't have to post these links over and over again, but I do because I like the look of egg all over your face, each and every time.

[antiRepublicrat]

Which most users precede to lose and then whine and complain because they can't display their screen.

My Dell laptop came with an adapter cable for video, too. Can I whine if I lose it?

I had one situation where Apple didn't bother to tell anyone they had changed pin assignments on the video adapter in the middle of a model run. This was a multi-system project and it took us over two weeks to get Apple to acknowledge the change

That one is messed up. But I still understand the need to get away from old technology, like old VGA, serial and parallel adapters. It causes some transition pain, but Apple seems to be the only company willing to do it. For some reason my new PC laptop wastes a lot of space with a parallel and serial port, and I haven't used a parallel port device in over six years, serial for about ten.

[A CA Guy]

[InterceptPoint]

And also in the news:

GM Study indicates Toyota quality problems.

Yahoo Analysis - Google Market Share Falling

I'm sure you can find a few more.

[N3WBI3]

Thats not what you said, you said:

Red Hat has literally hundreds of kernel devs and you have no proof of how many total contributions they have made.

So pretty please show me all these kernel developers..

[sticker]

What model Dell do you have? If you lose it you can whine all you want, just don't expect someone to save your butt. I use my serial port all the time, most control systems use RS232 for both programming and control

[Golden Eagle]

[A CA Guy]

LOL

[ShadowAce]

LOL! You link to a post by someone who's making SWAGs just like you in order to bolster your argument?

Sad, really. It'd be humorous if it wern't so pathetic.

[gungafox]

They say they don't make cars or houses like they used to...

Thank you, Lord!!!

[gungafox]

If there's anything Fedora 4's giving away to Windows I couldn't tell you what it was.

[Golden Eagle]

Red Hat currently has a couple hundred Linux devs, according to every source I've seen. If you think you can prove they have less, by all means let us see it. But of course you can't, you're just stalling/distracting/distorting things like you always do.

This all goes back to the fact that China renames those free copies of Red Hat to Red Flag, then distributes them accross Asia without any compensation back to Red Hat. You're welcome to take that one on someday too, but so far you can't seem to face up to it.

[N3WBI3]

Red Hat currently has a couple hundred Linux devs, according to every source I've seen. If you think you can prove they have less, by all means let us see it. But of course you can't, you're just stalling/distracting/distorting things like you always do.

You did not say Linux Devs, you said Kernel Devs! Now youre changing your story because you got caught on it..

[Golden Eagle]

You're the one still eating your ankle since you attempted to claim Red Hat didn't help design the Linux kernel. While no one knows for sure how many of their hundreds of programmers work specifically on the kernel, we do know that they contributed more than anyone to it, hence your original claim is still 100% bogus. If you want to somehow try to defend yourself go ahead, but attacking me instead just makes you a sore loserman.

[pageonetoo]

Apparently not well or efficiently enough to be used by any firm requiring a high degree of performance or reliability.(re: Macintosh)

Some folk would have a different opinion!

Hardware

Compute Nodes:

1100 Apple Xserve G5 cluster nodes with the following specifications:

* Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors

* 4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM

* 80 GB S-ATA hard disk drive

* One Mellanox Cougar InfiniBand 4x HCA*

* HCA added from third party and not a build-to-order option

Compile Nodes:

3 Apple Xserve G5 nodes with the following specifications:

* Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors

* 4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM

* 3x250 GB S-ATA hard disk drive

Storage:

1 Apple Xserve RAID unit with 1 Xserve NFS servers.

Total available user storage: 2.7TB

Operating System:

Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9

Beate Schmittmann, Professor, Physics

Some current projects are:

* Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

* Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

* Phase transitions and critical phenomena

* Driven diffusive systems

* Vacancy-mediated dynamics

* Percolation and stochastic evolution models

* Field theory and renormalization group analyses

* Monte Carlo simulation techniques

[N3WBI3]

I never said Redhat did not help with the Linux Kernel, I said they were handed the kernel for free initially. You however claimed that there where 'several hundred' kernel developers so please tell me where is the meat on that claim?

While no one knows for sure how many of their hundreds of programmers work specifically on the kernel,

Funny a few post back you were pretty quick to say there were 'several hundred' kernel developers... now you don't know... Where I come from thats called lying son..

[N3WBI3]

BTW: 'to somehow try' is a split infinitive, you should have said 'to try somehow', or 'somehow to try'... Just thought if you want to play grammar Nazi you should act the part.