Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Feb 2009 12:00 UTC
Since it's nigh on impossible to produce accurate figures of operating system usage, we have to make do with figures that provide a rough estimate, at best. One such set of statistics are the figures from Net Applications, which tracks the 160 million monthly visitors to its hosted websites. The latest figures from January 2009 have been published, and they show that the rise of Mac OS X continues, as well as that of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Unsurprisingly, Windows 7 did quite well too.
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if OS' X was to run on more platforms than apple we would not really even be talking about Linux especially if ZFS, grand central and OpenCl are what there are expected to be.
Why would we use OS X? You can always use Opensolaris for free.
However, I think the amount of control over the list of demands you had, patches/updates etc can easily be met by Opensuse 11.
RE[2]: I'll start it!!!!!!
by milles21 on Mon 2nd Feb 2009 23:49
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Opensuse cannot meet all the demands, we are talking enterprise not hacks. Groupwise server, Zenworks server, edirectory server, non of these are supported on Opensuse. Opensuse offers no support for enterprises nor does it offer integration of enterprise services.
In regard to Solaris you are still missing the ease of use enterprise directory system and management capabilities. We are talking GUIi tool or web based tools that enterprises demand to train staff. Time machine was not inventive it was merely marketed with the right tools that a user could easily be trained to use.
Active directory is not inventive but provides the tools to train admins to use. Apple, and Microsoft succeed partly from being inventive the other from producing intuitive tools to allow users to manage networks.
Even Apple's OS X server can allow office admins the ability to easily teach them how to use the tools in a method that they can understand from creating users and email accounts, restarting services and creating shares. The fluidness of Linux tools, often lack of consistent documentation makes it a moving target. That was were Novell would have succeeded if the community did not start to rip them to shreds. I sometimes view the community as crabs in a barrel committed more to distros than the common Linux goal.
Edited 2009-02-02 23:51 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:33 UTC
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
Linked by Anonymous on 06/18/13 22:26 UTC
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:25 UTC
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:45 UTC
"I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:32 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)".
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:58 UTC
"The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:52 UTC
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 21:03 UTC
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 20:46 UTC
"And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 17:32 UTC
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.More News »
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Ok I'll finally bite and I you can mod me down as you wish. It seems that anytime Linux is mentioned in a negative light here comes the all out defenders. However I want some honest responses, not the I love Linux and defend it responses.
This is just my view so do with it as you want;,
1. Linux is not really advancing the industry in terms of inventive technologies. they continue to make alternatives however they are providing little in terms of technological advances such as OpenCL.
2. Linux is a great platform however in terms of ease of use enterprise management with great tools. The community has vehemently torn down in my opinon the one company able to bring enterprise tools and linux to small buisness and enterprises with the ease of Microsoft which is Novell. In terms of enterprise tools there is not another Linux vendor that has the complete enterprise platform of email, identity management, linux, virtualization(platespin), patch management(both Windows and linux), reporting services, directory management.
Redhat is great however there are not a cohesive integrated easily managed platform in comparison to Novell's offering and neither is ubuntu.
From an enterprise perspective even OS X's opendirectory, server admin tools provide a better view than ubuntu and redhat. if OS' X was to run on more platforms than apple we would not really even be talking about Linux especially if ZFS, grand central and OpenCl are what there are expected to be.