Study Finds Linux 'Ready For Prime-time' 283
An anonymous reader tipped us to a Techworld article proclaiming Linux as the next big thing ... again. A study of IT directors, VPs and CIOs has concluded that within five years the open-source OS will be running more than half of all important business applications. From the article: "In short, open source, especially Linux, is being legitimized by the major enterprise vendors, and user executives are more than happy to believe them ... Microsoft's thawing toward Linux is now easier to understand when faced with such data - even as Windows continues to grow as the other main server platform of choice."
Selfserving Article (Score:5, Informative)
Re:SharePoint? (Score:1, Informative)
We also use it on our site, without any problems whatsoever. Therefore we aren't locked into the proprietary Sharepoint product.
www.plone.org for the Plone website
www.zope.org for the Zope website
And for the record, we are actively deploying Linux where possible on our site.
slashdot.org bloated (Score:2, Informative)
Another funny thing is that the js consist mostly of comments...
Re:slashdot.org bloated (Score:3, Informative)
Same here, it also freezes on loading images.slashdot.org and google-analytics.com.
You guys always do this (Score:5, Informative)
Everybody here at Slashdot knows this already but, still, and probably forever, most people won't know this. So, is this OK? I don't think so. Linux is the heart but X is the blood, lungs, bones, muscle and skin. Let's get over being shy or ignorant about the importance of X, its uniqueness as a network display protocol, the renaissance in X development, the activity in X related projects like cairo, SVG, all things GL (OpenGL,XGL, AIXGL), Desktop environments based on X, etc..
Let's get over being shy about the importance of the UNIX component model and the valuable tool extensions that make this approach so much more useful than the monolithic approaches of other operating environments, such as rsync, scripting, et al.. And lastly, let's start talking about the absolute need for network computing. That's the computing paradigm of the present and the future. Let's talk about how so much of Linux, X, rsync (for example) and the applications are already so well suited for making use of and advancing that approach to software. Network computing is replacing the desktop as the next 'big thing', so let's start talking about that, why don't we? The game console manufacturers have recognized and accepted this, so why don't we accept that this is also true for applications?
under my bed .. (Score:3, Informative)
Have you ever watched a new user installing Windows from scratch. If installing Windows is such a breeze then why are call centers such a growth industry. Since most of the standard apps come preistalled I doubt the new user would even have to install. For instance Linspire [linspire.com] comes out of the box with Internet Suite, Email, Internet, instant messaging, Office Suite, Instant Messaging, Digital Music, Digital Photos, Wireless Capability, Plug and Play, Web Publishing. If that's not enough then there is an online update service. Just click and install. Off the top of my head SuSE, Mandrake, Debian all come with graphical installers. As do most of the rest I assume.
"but those are the reasons I put Mandrake 6.x, RH 7.0,7.1 and 7.2, suse x.x into a box and put the box under my bed and hardly bothered with them for the last 5 years"
Are you one of these Linux geeks who still live with their parents?
"I use the operating system to get things done, and I don't want to wrestle with it, I want it to do things intuitively"
You will be pleased to know that Redhat now comes with a graphical installer. As for getting things done, I put people down in front of a SuSE KDE/desktop and do know what, they can't tell the difference.
"unless getting RPM's to go to the right place and install the right way has gotten any simpler
I don't understand how you have to tell the RPM where to install. What took three hours to type RPM -Uvh.
"Long story short, I just wanted to get a basic functional web server together"
I also don't understand how you equate installing a web server with what the new user would ever want to do.
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"do it to them before they do it to us", Sergeant Stan Jablonski
was I wonder. (Score:2), Troll
Re:Selfserving Article (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, if you are looking to screw a company, or take them out to a date, then its a different story
Re:I wonder. (Score:3, Informative)
Can your grandma use XP, recieve a zip from you on a usb disk and drag the files to her desktop? Does she know how to get winzip? Install it? Configure it so it doesn't run it's own daemon and steal valuable memory? Click "I agree" every time it opens?
ubuntu sounds EASIER in this context.
Re:Selfserving Article (Score:3, Informative)
There is no vitriol in the parent's post. The term 'enemy' is only as emotionally charged as the listener wishes it to be. As it's easier to hate an 'enemy' than to understand and accept an opposing point of view, this is probably not the best choice of words in a constructive dialogue.
The parent is simply making an observation. Free Software [gnu.org] is an ideology [complete.org] just as capitalism [theregister.co.uk] is an ideology [wikipedia.org]. While not mutually exclusive [gnu.org] (hence efforts being made to monetize Free Software both on the part of "Open Source" startups and established commercial vendors), these two ideologies do conflict in several areas.
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While an organization as large and diverse as Microsoft will never be entirely focused on activities that impede or overtly threaten the F/OSS community, it has interests that are not [gnu.org.pe] and may never be [theregister.co.uk] compatible with those of the Free Software community. For that reason, MSFT is directly [microsoft.com] and indirectly [netscape.com] engaged in activities [gnu.org] that hurt [auckland.ac.nz] and threaten [no-lobbyists-as-such.com] the F/OSS community, not out of malice or even by choice, but in simply fulfilling obligations to its shareholders. It's just business :) [wikimedia.org].
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