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some of the comments here – specifically the Pebble beach one – are repulsive, but the fact is that non-native bait and overfishing are real problems for Maine waters
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i agree with Michael, this is a black eye for the Gentoo distro
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disclaimer: Scalix is a client of ours, but that said i think they’ve gotten the tone almost exactly right here – i’m subscribed
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if i was around, i’d be attending this; best bet, IMO, would be to encourage new industry (i.e. technology) to replace those in decline (forestry, shipbuilding, etc)
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high comedy over in Fort Meyers
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interesting indeed; i wonder what dtrace can uncover in x.org
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good reality check from Mark on pre-installing Ubuntu; talked to a reporter about this subject just this morning
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more on this tomorrow; short version is that i think it’s an excellent move – long overdue, in fact
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Mike and i mostly agree to disagree with respect to Solaris – this is one such occasion: is the binary compatability story perfect? nope. but a.) Linux isn’t exactly obsessed with ABI, and b.) talk to ISVs about going from SuSE to RHEL (agree on 277 tho)
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supervolcanoes are up there with plagues as things i’m actually terrified of
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that is a *crazy* calendar
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why didn’t someone tell me these guys were in Denver? need to sit down with them
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interesting; cloudscape was never a huge business, but definitely had its fans – need to hear more to understand what the implications are for Derby
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interesting blog from a UK SMB that’s moving more or less wholesale to open source
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Though Cloudscape was never a huge business it was a widely-used component. It still is, but now in the form of open-source Derby.
One can read this announcement as a roundabout way of saying that the Cloudscape spinoff to open-source Derby has been a great success, with the Apache Derby community providing on an ongoing basis both high-quality development AND support.
Solaris/x86 has had significant issues with the boot loader used at startup and install. It is in the process of being replaced. That’s always been a gripe. Once running, it’s good stuff though. And Solaris supports the identical FSF tool chains as Linux, and that support dates from *before* Linux existed.
As for porting, anytime you move across architectures bugs get uncovered. Same is true between SPARC and Alpha, x86, x86/64, MIPS, 680×0.
Damn – can’t believe you blogged the Mercian Labels blog before me (and I’m mentioned! – we helped them out with some training etc to get going).
I found the opinions of the the Novell architect to be…err…umm… inaccurate or wildly outdated
That’s about the kindest thing I can say. I left a long comment on Michael Dolan’s blog which I won’t repeat here
http://www.michaeldolan.com/649#comment-1633
In any case, I much prefer more thoughtful criticism or commentary such as your comments on RHX. I certainly agree that Solaris is behind our Linux and BSD brethren in this space but we’ve realized that and aim to remedy that. I know it’s terribly native of me to wish for some cooperation or standardization in this area since solving it in a more uniform way benefits everybody – the distros, the ISVs and most of all, the customers.
Dave: that’ll be the default way to read the news, i suspect. but it is interesting that unlike, say, WebSphere CE the commercial support is dropped. economics don’t support it, i suppose. i’ll be interested to see whether the level of resource applied to Derby is affected.
rnc: on the porting point, agreed. just talk to the 64 bit folks that still can’t run Flash.
Paul: they actually emailed me the link, so i cheated a bit
David: yup, i thought the comments were somewhat misguided myself. some legitimate complaints/criticisms, of course, but also a lot of FUD.
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