Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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contrasutra wrote:
"Or maybe Virginia Tech got a HUGE discount for buying so many."
I don't know how much Virginia Tech paid, but I doubt they got a huge discount. Just price comparable alternatives to get a sense of the probable price. (See IBM's eServer p series).
"And anyway, how many Intel/SGI/Sun/etc clusters are there compared to Apple?"
You're leaving out IBM's eServer p series (now in use at Celera Genomics - see:
http://www-3.ibm.com/solutions/lifesciences/news/celera.html
).
"Yeah,that's what I thought. Even Pixar(owned by Steve Jobs) doesnt use a cluster of Macs."
Well, that was before the G5. Who knows what Pixar will buy next.
Regards,
Mark Wilson