So what's the big shift for kernel 3?
Nothing, it is just the number game all browsers play atm.
And since some distros rename it to 2.6.40 and others call it 3.0.0 for compatibility reasons, I think Linus was on meth when he decided to go for the 3.
In the good old days, 1.0 was perfect and bug free. 1.1 was major feature additions. Even that didn't make sense.
With the kernel at least there was some rational to the even/odd version numbers, but you still didn't need point releases for that.
odd numbers are dev and even are stable releases.
When you could movie sequels, do you say 2 if it's good and 1.1 if it's bad?
Everything should be versioned by whole numbers, it's assinine and only creates confusion otherwise
I stepped in gasoline and now everwhere I go smells like gas.
What they really need is a gnome 2 rewrite. Throw the old one away, and write a new one from scratch that is compatible.
the computational complexity of de-duping identical pages is not
exactly trivial...
...and yet nearly all major hypervisors do it.
As with everything, you have to match the deployment strategy to the workload.
Around here we're fond of saying "Speed costs money -- how fast do you want to go?" If no compromise on performance will be accepted, you turn off deduplication and buy enough physical RAM to avoid oversubscription. For most shared hosting environments, the majority of subscribers aren't willing to pay for that.
Although it now seems that its current owner, HP, now seems to be voluntarily blowing itself up. WTF is up with them?
oh. hp drops webos? and want to sell their pc-business? (like ibm did to lenovo?)
I guess their drop in value...
well. not good news i'd say.
Well, DEC went out of business ;)
wondering what the heck I was responding to. It sure wasn't the immediately preceding post. Something disappear or get moved?>
But yeah, it seems as if HP is deliberately self-destructing. They're the #1 PC maker with 20% of the market, and they're getting out of that business.
Shutting down the WebOS unit I can understand; no one seems to want those devices anymore. Spinning off the PC business seems as if they like what happened to Sun and they're trying to get to the same place as quickly as possible.
yea, seems as if they should get carly fiorina back and continue manufacturing printer ink.
as for webos... one would think that a company like HP could do better in buying a promising technology and developing it to some point where everybody wants it...
as the register comments, they might get a chance to license it, as maybe androids flag sinks with the motorola merger...
but they currently seem to be rather able to fork it instead of buying a license of another os...
I guess they're following their aquired companies compaq & dec into the hoods of insignificance.
I guess one could argue that intel managed to successfully evaporate all better alternatives to unix workstation & server processors with its itanic, and eventualy take them all out of business...
- alpha / dec dead.
- pa/risc HP; dead.
- mips well sort of dead man walking, trying to become the next ARM since a decade now... promising fork of the technology in china
- powerpc Ok, we've got IBM, who didn't buy on itanic in first place,
- Sparc who might survive within sun/oracle
now there is no ex-intel / microsoft employee to blame for their decision to move "into the cloud" like over at nokia, though the stories seem somewhat similar...
Aug 19 2011 5:00pm from Ford II @uncnsrd
I just assumed you were making your usual non-sense. :-)
All I can say is it definitely made sense to me at the time, and now it totally doesn't ;)
Whether that's "enough" to keep it afloat is another story altogether. There are some workloads that will seemingly never migrate to the volume architecture (x86-64). I don't really have an opinion as to whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
So it seems HP wants to become another IBM or Oracle. I think the next couple of years are going to serve as a painful reminder of how much they relied on the businesses they're dissolving or spinning off. A "focus on software" would seem to appear easy if HP is looking at companies like Oracle and Microsoft and IBM and saying "we're big like them; we can do that." It isn't that easy though. They could jump start it by acquiring SAP, but even with that head start, they'd need to have top management with flawless execution -- something that HP hasn't had much of lately.
(Itanium). It isn't dead -- it simply failed to take its intended place
Right, it's resting.
start it by acquiring SAP, but even with that head start, they'd need
to have top management with flawless execution -- something that HP
hasn't had much of lately.
Hey, they've always got printers. Paperless orifice be damned. PC load letter?
Perhaps I might add that DEC went out of business!
(Itanium). It isn't dead -- it simply failed to take its intendedplace
Right, it's resting.
When I have time, I'm going to port OS/2 to the itanium, then you guys will know true beauty.
"We had joy, we had fun, we had Netscape on the Sun..."
(Even in its very first generation, x86 assembler was *never* elegant.)
Perhaps I might add that DEC went out of business!
Zing! Nailed it this time :)
Perhaps that's the answer. All of the technology of three different companis, and HP goes strategic with the ones that suck the most. So it's obvious that this is a race to the bottom for them.
I wonder if there's a technology in there somewhere that's just an albatross around the neck of whatever company owns it. If that's the case, they should just go out and buy whatever's left of WordPerfect so they have the complete stack.
Divesting the unprofitable parts of a large, corporate conglomerate is probably a lot like divesting the bad assets of an involvent bank. You could split it into a "bad bank" and a "good bank", give the bad bank all the bad assets and a disproportionate share of the liabilities... but that's equivalent to defaulting on your debts, and the investors will sue.
No doubt they've got a few albatrosses in there somewhere... I'm guessing that thosse are going to have to be handled as asset sales if they can find a willing buyer who can work with the smaller margins of the PC business (like Lenovo was for IBM)