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cross
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response 38 of 79:
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Oct 21 03:34 UTC 2012 |
Grex's span of life on OpenBSD is coming to an end: the new hardware will run
(indeed, is already running) FreeBSD.
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keesan
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response 39 of 79:
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Oct 21 13:17 UTC 2012 |
Can you explain why the change?
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cross
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response 40 of 79:
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Oct 21 15:05 UTC 2012 |
Yes.
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remmers
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response 41 of 79:
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Oct 21 22:23 UTC 2012 |
Cool. I look forward to the changeover.
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remmers
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response 42 of 79:
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Oct 23 13:52 UTC 2012 |
(And I assume there will be a more detailed and prominent announcement in
Agora or Coop. I've been curious for a while about what's up with the new
hardware and the changeover to FreeBSD.)
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cross
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response 43 of 79:
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Oct 23 15:45 UTC 2012 |
Yes.
In a nutshell: the new hardware is at Tony's. There was (is?) a hardware
problem in the new M-Net, and I'm trying to set up both Grex and M-Net to be
as nearly identical as possible.
Most of the work now is configuration and documentation. Almost everything
is actually installed, however.
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remmers
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response 44 of 79:
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Oct 24 17:30 UTC 2012 |
Nice!
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ball
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response 45 of 79:
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Nov 4 23:41 UTC 2012 |
I think FreeBSD is a good choice, especially given the
history of Grex on OpenBSD and SunOS.
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cross
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response 46 of 79:
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Nov 5 21:52 UTC 2012 |
Yeah. OpenBSD was a huge mistake, and the two who pushed it so hard are MIA.
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walkman
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response 47 of 79:
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Aug 10 11:58 UTC 2013 |
Do any of you think Linux use (not counting devices with embedded
systems) is on the decline with OS X and iOS everywhere?
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nharmon
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response 48 of 79:
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Aug 10 15:16 UTC 2013 |
Desktops? Yes.
Servers? No.
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cross
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response 49 of 79:
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Aug 10 18:44 UTC 2013 |
PCs as desktop computers in general are on the decline, so yeah; I agree with
Nate.
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dtk
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response 50 of 79:
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Aug 10 20:10 UTC 2013 |
In the server space, I can tell you that I have seen directly in both
industry and Gov't it is growing and is a major platform for new roll-
outs, replacing mainstays like Solaris and HP-UX (and even AIX in some
places).
In the desktop space, it has a moderate share of a decreasing platform,
so it is slowly shrinking with the rest of the desktop space.
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remmers
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response 51 of 79:
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Mar 24 19:25 UTC 2014 |
Desktop space. Server space. Hey, what about the MOBILE space? In the
mobile space, Linux is growing by leaps and bounds. Any of the bazillion
folks with a smartphone running Android is carrying (a heavily Googlefied
version of) Ubuntu Linux in their pocket or purse.
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cross
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response 52 of 79:
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Mar 24 20:13 UTC 2014 |
Android has almost nothing to do with ubuntu.
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dtk
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response 53 of 79:
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Mar 25 04:23 UTC 2014 |
Resp:51 AFAIK, Android is a modified Linux kernel, which bootstraps a
JVM and a custom java-based user-space in-lieu of init. It is only
nominally Linux-based, and has little or nothing to do with Linux,
other than pedigree.
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remmers
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response 54 of 79:
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Mar 25 13:44 UTC 2014 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 55 of 79:
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Mar 25 14:18 UTC 2014 |
Ah, I appear to have been mistaken about the Ubuntu part. Was looking at
this: http://elinux.org/Android_Architecture.
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cross
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response 56 of 79:
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Mar 25 15:11 UTC 2014 |
I've never heard of that site.
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dtk
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response 57 of 79:
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Mar 26 02:13 UTC 2014 |
Resp:55 Interesting. I'd not seen that, though it clarifies what I
understood of the Android architecture.
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remmers
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response 58 of 79:
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Mar 26 12:39 UTC 2014 |
Here's a capsule summary of the role of the Linux kernel in Android,
written by Google software engineer Robert Love. Linux kernel with minimal
changes, heavily redesigned user space.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/13/what-are-the-major-changes-
that-android-made-to-the-linux-kernel/ (http://goo.gl/Tr9nvy)
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cross
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response 59 of 79:
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Mar 26 17:27 UTC 2014 |
Robert sits a couple of desks down from me; really nice guy. Anything in
particular you'd like me to ask him?
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remmers
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response 60 of 79:
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Mar 27 10:40 UTC 2014 |
Please ask him if Chromecast is going to support Amazon streaming.
Oh wait, that's probably not his department. Never mind.
Anyway, the main point of my original response was that in gauging the
extent of OS usage, nowadays you should consider mobile devices as well as
PCs and servers, especially since smartphones and tablets are being used
for many of the same purposes as PCs. And if you're willing to consider
Android as a flavor of Linux, then Linux deployment is really quite
extensive and growing.
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cross
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response 61 of 79:
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Mar 27 11:45 UTC 2014 |
I guess I've been thinking that for the last half a decade or so, so it comes
as a surprise to me that that's something people are only recently starting
to consider.
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remmers
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response 62 of 79:
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Mar 27 15:31 UTC 2014 |
Not too surprising. People are often slow to shift mental gears in the
face of rapid technological change.
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