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by CrLf 15y ago
"How is the support? Do developers even care? Are they serious at issues handling? Etc." This can't be stressed enough. A prospective user first-and-foremost wants to have an answer to the question "Is this piece of software worthy of my ti
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by CrLf 15y ago
Any project on github. Put yourself in the shoes of a user that doesn't want to donwnload source. He lands on a github project page and just gives up. For a regular user (where "regular" depends on the type of software and the technical ski
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by CrLf 15y ago
Why doesn't anyone ever think about the users? You know, the ones that just want to grab some binaries and do stuff? In the "old days", projects would have a webpage with some instructions, screenshots and downloadable binaries. The effort
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by CrLf 15y ago
Those "ECC requirements" really make a difference though. And whoever is running servers without ECC memory in production should be shot dead (just wait until you have data corruption because of a faulty memory module to see what pain is).
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by CrLf 15y ago
"anchored in the old paradigm of storage being a commodity that must be conserved" Yeah, such an old paradigm... Just try managing backups for an ever increasing mail store... Yes, today storage is cheap (even middle-tier storage arrays whe
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by CrLf 15y ago
I think you missed the point. It's not about being a programmer working those fields. It's about using programming to help you in those fields, about programming not being the primary occupation.
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by CrLf 15y ago
"Which features of the 'evolved desktop' does Linux currently lack?" Reliability and usability. Pretty important features, IMHO.
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by CrLf 15y ago
It is, if not only because Windows (NT) also matured during the same timeframe and doesn't run only on a limited set of hardware choices. If Microsoft could do it, Linux could have done it as well. In fact, Linux supports a vast number of h
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by CrLf 15y ago
"And yet, I am also a very strong open source advocate" Having an opinion about the miserable state of the Linux desktop has nothing to do with open-source advocacy. The success of many open-source projects including Linux itself (on everyt
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by CrLf 15y ago
I started using Linux around 1998 at my university, and started using it on my own desktop later that year (with Red Hat 5.0). I used it almost exclusively until 2006, when I finally had enough. At the time I moved to Windows and abandoned
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by CrLf 15y ago
Recently there seems to be an increasing hate towards academia in particular, usually ranting about how it is too theoretical and how it doesn't prepare you for the "real world". Funny enough, this seems to come more often from people who e
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by CrLf 15y ago
"ALWAYS the sysadmin who will actually be on-call to support it should have the final say" Ah, if only that happened in the real world...
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by CrLf 15y ago
The thing is, ordinary bugs can also be security bugs. People that fix ordinary bugs then also end up fixing many security bugs that are not classified as such. These are the unsung "heroes". I think his point is that the important part is
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by CrLf 15y ago
«Dealing with failure scenarios (everything's down and won't come back up)» This is avoidable, if you do your job well. «External time pressure (This needed to be done yesterday)» This tends to get worse if you do your job well. Do somethin
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by CrLf 15y ago
Less stressful...? Let's see... Burning your brain all day to solve problems that are usually underspecified, while having to meet deadlines set by people that don't have much of a clue of what it really means to program, to satisfy users w
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by CrLf 16y ago
I think it is exactly the same in most/all of Europe. And let me say that I think that's a good thing, but I'll get to why. Let me give Portugal as an example, as it is where I live... By the start of the 10th grade we had two major choices
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by CrLf 16y ago
I agree. Any decent professional should know when to keep his mouth shut. And it should know that leaking privileged information would potentially get him fired and marked as unreliable. No NDA required. An NDA not only keeps an employee qu
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by CrLf 16y ago
As other people pointed out, most people don't care about the difference between a DVD and a Blu-ray, even when they have HD displays. It would be interesting to know exactly why, but nobody wants to survey the users, prefering instead to p
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by CrLf 16y ago
Well, I'm also from Portugal and I can say that... Actually, most relevant TV shows are available here, on cable, with proper subtitles (dubbing is very rare in Portugal, unlike other european countries). Some shows are just one episode b
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by CrLf 16y ago
Enterprise hardware lies about fsync, because even if you loose power, there is a little battery on the RAID controller that's enough to flush the cache to disk or to keep it for hours until the machine is powered up again. When the battery
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by CrLf 16y ago
But it requires that those who receive licenses from you (or source) be able to pass them to others, free or charge or not.
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by CrLf 16y ago
When you focus primarily on you customer's problems and forget your own problems, you tend to give your customers something that's not what they really want. You have to think about your own problems in the context of your customer's needs.
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by CrLf 16y ago
Opensource doesn't need designers, there are plenty of those (real designers, and programmers with decent design skills). What it needs is focus. The main problem with opensource UIs is the lack of attention to integration issues and detail
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by CrLf 16y ago
The most annoying part is not that it costs $5. It's that Apple is going to milk those $5 with every update. Yes, Xcode 3 is still free, but for how long? Suddenly Microsoft starts looking a lot nicer...
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by CrLf 16y ago
The people working on, say, "ext4" also have to maintain their own patch stack in the form of a git repo. How to they manage to do that while still being able to go from one kernel to the next? How is that different from what Red Hat does?
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by CrLf 16y ago
Indeed. The lure of CentOS is pretty much that it is RHEL with replaced artwork. And Red Hat benefits a lot from CentOS... Red Hat sells to businesses, and any business with money to spend on RHEL subscriptions will do so. Management does
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by CrLf 16y ago
This is a rather negative spin on something that probably is much more simple... The kernel has always been the most heavily patched package by distributors. In the old days of Red Hat desktop, when they had a 6-month release cycle, it had
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The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange(bsdly.blogspot.com)
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by CrLf 16y ago
Technically it seems nice, but what's up with reusing the "high voltage" symbol for this? And "thunderbolt" is a very tacky name...
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by CrLf 16y ago
Having all ethernet devices called "ethX" makes it much easier to parse the output of ifconfig and exclude any non-ethernet interfaces (tunnels and such).

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