M$FT said today that it has been pushed back into 07 now... security issues.....gosh who woulda thought????

 

Linux and OsX is going to be the benefactor of this.

 

True but: Linux (Ubuntu) > OsX

 

As long as my AAPL shares goes up ..all is well.

 

You like Ubuntu John? What do you think about it? I've got Debian on one of my systems, and I'll probably install Gentoo on another.

Oh, and Gentoo >>> *

 

I like what I know about Ubuntu. I use Redhat but like the "Best in class" approach of Ubuntu (or Kubuntu depending on your love of KDE). Easier for most folks *not* to have a zillion choices. This I think will popularize Linux even more.

 

Ooops. Oh and... Hi Jack!

 

A couple of Vista preview videos. I believe the first one Ken posted a while back..the 2nd and 3rd I had not seen.


http://tauquil.com/archives/2006/01/06/re-...-windows-vista/

 

John

I've only started playing with Gentoo. It's a pain in the ass to install, definitely not for beginners. But I like the fact that everything you install is (or rather, can be) completely optimized for your hardware.

It has a "package managing system" (portage) much like a lot of other distributions. The difference however, is that instead of downloading and installing pre-compiled binaries, portage actually downloads source files, and compiles on your machine during installation, using optimization flags you pre-configure (I configured portage to compile with the highest level of optimization, and to take full advantage of my processor - i.e., use any special instructions, features etc to make the program faster).

The downside is that if I were to copy my copy of apache to another Linux machine, it may not necessarily run there.

I guess you could think of it as a Linux distribution for hacker wannabes like me.

 

Uh... I'll be leaving that one alone.

I'm all about simple these days. My time for farking around with my servers has diminished to nearly zero these days and for the forseeable future.