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Stephen wrote:
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> I'm sorry now that I forgot to give you that Dried Frog pill.
> :)
Andrew ate it ;-)
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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:55:48 -0400, Warp wrote:
> For some reason OpenSuse has the policy that they never upgrade the
> kernel (nor gcc) of a given distro to the newest version.
I think it has something to do with any changes in the ABI that might
affect other software/drivers installed on the system.
Just a guess, though.
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:02:52 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmail com>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
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>> I'm sorry now that I forgot to give you that Dried Frog pill.
>> :)
>
>Andrew ate it ;-)
Oh! Dear! :)
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Regards
Stephen
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Doctor John wrote:
> Now, all you M$ cheerleaders when are we getting Vista for UltraSPARC?
> ROTFLMAO
SPARC still exists...?
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>> So why the fuss?
>
> What fuss? We're secure enough in the reliability and stability of our
> OS not to have to make a song and dance about it. It's only commercial
> pressures that require M$ to try and bullsh*t the average user that
> external_show=internal_novelty
Well, if it's so great, why release a new version of the kernel?
And if the new kernel is exactly the same as the old one... what's the
point...? I'm confused...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> So why the fuss?
>>
>> What fuss? We're secure enough in the reliability and stability of our
>> OS not to have to make a song and dance about it. It's only commercial
>> pressures that require M$ to try and bullsh*t the average user that
>> external_show=internal_novelty
>
> Well, if it's so great, why release a new version of the kernel?
>
> And if the new kernel is exactly the same as the old one... what's the
> point...? I'm confused...
>
Incremental improvement rather than massive change. Think of it as
evolution vs (un)ID
John
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
> > Now, all you M$ cheerleaders when are we getting Vista for UltraSPARC?
> > ROTFLMAO
> SPARC still exists...?
In your world there exists only two processor companies: Intel and AMD,
and there exists only two operating systems, Windows and Linux. Probably
also only two web browsers, IE and Firefox, two office software packages,
MS Office and OpenOffice, two image manipulation programs, Photoshop and
Gimp...
The world is bigger than you think, and not everything is made of pairs.
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Warp wrote:
> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>> I'm currently compiling one (actually I was already, before reading this
>> post) - for UltraSPARC :).
>
> Why would anyone want to run linux on an UltraSPARC? AFAIK linux still
> doesn't get even close to Solaris in scalability...
>
http://www.michaeldolan.com/937
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> So why the fuss?
>>
>> What fuss? We're secure enough in the reliability and stability of our
>> OS not to have to make a song and dance about it. It's only commercial
>> pressures that require M$ to try and bullsh*t the average user that
>> external_show=internal_novelty
>
> Well, if it's so great, why release a new version of the kernel?
>
> And if the new kernel is exactly the same as the old one... what's the
> point...? I'm confused...
>
Are they the same?
http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
In overall functionality, they are the same. But changes in each
version morph it into something that is more versatile.
So the average joe shouldn't run out and upgrade the kernel.
Those who are creating bleeding edge systems may need the most recent
changes - even those not a part of the official release yet.
Tom
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>> SPARC still exists...?
>
> In your world there exists only two processor companies: Intel and AMD,
> and there exists only two operating systems, Windows and Linux. Probably
> also only two web browsers, IE and Firefox, two office software packages,
> MS Office and OpenOffice, two image manipulation programs, Photoshop and
> Gimp...
>
> The world is bigger than you think, and not everything is made of pairs.
Well, no, there are *lots* of CPU designs out there. It's just that most
of them are legacy designs that used to be put in "computers", and now
get put into TVs and toasters. I'm aware that SPARC used to be big
business, I just hadn't heard it meantioned in ages, so I assumed it was
no longer current technology...
As far as OS choices, you've got Windows, Linux and [apparently] OpenBSD
(which, as best as I can figure out, is exactly like Linux, except that
it it's also different somehow...) As far as I'm aware, there aren't any
other operating systems for the IBM PC that are what you could describe
as "usable" in the normal sense.
There are zillions of web browsers, but only a few popular ones. [For
reasons that escape me, Lynx is apparently quite popular. Judging by my
web logs anyway...]
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