Posted on 10/05/2020 3:32:40 AM PDT by ShadowAce
So effectively put a windowing UI on a Unix Kernel?
Hmmmm. You mean like OSX?
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
The 80’s and early 90’s were physical serial terminal connections, not the same thing. I remember those days, I was a Unix Admin back in those days (Solaris primarily) at a large, Chicago Loop based lawfirm who was handling asbestos claims against PPG.
I’ve been happily retired from the rat race for 18 months now. Your post reminded me of the always stressful Patch Tuesday with it’s deadlines and the required testing and reams of documentation - and that’s if everything went OK!
I’m still running Win-7 Pro x64 on two 2006 HP Industrial-grade machines, using Norton 360 and MalwareBytes Premium, along w/ CCleaner Premium, and have never had a problem. Never. I turned-off Win Defender, Update and all MS’ crap over a year ago.
Frankly, I’m not really too terribly interested in microsoft co-opting Linux. Microsoft has long been known, from a programming perspective, to be able to screw up an anvil. I can see all kinds of stupidity like the ‘registry’ being shoehorned into Linux environments. Can’t say I’m a big fan of the entire embrace, extend, extinguish philosophy of microsoft culture.
Besides, they don’t even know how to properly delimit a directory. Everyone knows you use a /, not a \.
Thanks! bfl
I understand the appeal from a cost perspective, but I work in Healthcare IT, and the constant issues we face from network issues make me extremely reluctant to require internet to be able to do any work at all. Also, from a personal perspective, I prefer buying software once, and not paying a subscription for it forever.
BUMP!!
Agree 100%.
I can see this happening and had actually come to this same conclusion myself a while back. This would be a hugely positive development for Linux in the sense that hardware support for new devices in the Linux kernel would now be mandatory for any device maker. It could be a negative as well with the Microsoft tail wagging the Linux dog.
The interesting question is does this brave new world have NTFS still with its case insensitivity and backwards slashes and Powershell as its scripting language? I wager that it would as that migration would be too hard. And also consider things like Exchange and AD. So even if this did happen it’s still gonna seem like yukky windoze to me.
The technical part of me wants to ask: what network issues do you face on a daily basis within the hospital? Are you losing network connectivity? Are apps/services slow to respond?
The new Doom uses Vulkan runtime which can run on Linux ;-)
We could call it XWindows
Look up the Office 365, Microsoft Teams outage last week, and what/who was impacted.
I did experience the Office 365 outage last week - suddenly I could not use my e-mail and other things and it lasted an hour or so, I think. I know the cloud has its advantages but any glitch can affect millions of people.
XP forever! :-)
Nope. With an ethernet (or other supported) connection you could "network boot" a workstation which would download a non-persistent copy of the OS. These were diskless clients that used NFS for file access. The would boot SunView, later NeWS, and even later OpenWindows. NeWS was replaced by the X system. In Solaris, OpenWindows was replaced by the Common Desktop Environment.
We remotely managed Suns via remote terminal, but locally had a few diskless workstations.
Lindows?
Dropped Windows over a year ago and boot up and run Linux off an SSD.
I wonder if Torvald’s is sending Gates snarky emails...
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