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- ArthurSucks, on 03/27/2008, -6/+912.6 second boot times? I think I just came a little.
- TheZorch, on 03/27/2008, -2/+62You know I've notice way more Linux innovations in the past six months than I've seen come from Microsoft for Windows in FIVE YEARS.
- jackyyll, on 03/27/2008, -1/+57Rebooting is for windows users.
- SQLserver, on 03/27/2008, -2/+40Linux runs on practically everything these days... It's amazing how portable and adaptable it is.
- lickmyback, on 03/27/2008, -0/+33Lighttpd + custom PHP interface + mega huge NAS box could be quite cute...
- Sammi84, on 03/27/2008, -2/+34I had a whole nerdgasm.
- clesch, on 03/27/2008, -3/+23And you care about your boot time of your embedded NAS because... ?
- aldableep3, on 03/27/2008, -1/+21my N64.. im not even joking either any old cartridge based system is loading an OS and booting, its just instantaneous
- earthmansurfer, on 03/27/2008, -1/+17Yeah, I think we are starting to see the sheer numbers of linux developers swarm the limited number of "paid" MS developers.
Anyone have any numbers on this? - kazamx, on 03/27/2008, -2/+18Remember that there are 2 sorts of developer for Linux.
Those who are paid, such as all the developers working for Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, a thousand different embedded projects, Governments, small companies and well lots of others. There are also all the people cracking out good code in their spare time. The difference is that the code developed is available for everyone to use, so less time is wasted on redoing the same thing over and over for each project.
Microsoft needs to pay a developer to make pretty much everything. If Apple does something cool they need to pay a developer to copy it. In linux If Red Hat does something cool, Novell can just take it. When Novell does something cool Ubuntu can just take it. To keep ahead everyone needs to keep coming up with cool stuff to make themselves stand out.
Open Source is the future, it can't be stopped. - thcobbs, on 03/27/2008, -1/+15Because it won't be a NAS for long.
- FizzanoMatrix, on 03/27/2008, -2/+14This could do some serious damage it looks like. RISC architecture's gonna change everything...
- Naidim, on 03/27/2008, -4/+16Call me when ANY OS beats the Amiga's under 2 second boot time.
- sint4x, on 03/27/2008, -1/+11With this, you'd be 2.6 second man.
- kazamx, on 03/27/2008, -0/+10I have to reboot at least once every six months. Dam new Nvidia drivers with every Ubuntu Upgrade.
- speel, on 03/27/2008, -1/+10Desktop use?
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -3/+11palmOS
- Jeffler, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8Actually, brand loyalty sucks.
- Nicksname1, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8JerkFace!
- ileftfark, on 03/27/2008, -1/+7i think momsshizzle is a pretty cool guy. psyche!
- nallelcm, on 03/27/2008, -0/+6didn't get the reference obviously
- ninja0, on 03/27/2008, -1/+7Gentoo.
- iwod, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5I dont understand what does it mean. So Those NAS are not already using Linux can finally install Linux on it?
Would we finally see some huge performance increase in transfer speed. Coz all current NAS are really really slow. - t0ny, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5My LifeDrive takes like 3 mins to boot...
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -1/+6*This message brought to you by someone who knows nothing about Open Source. He will not be here for comments, however, busy sucking the ***** of Steve Jobs.
- lupicite, on 03/27/2008, -1/+6What is the difference between main kernel support *AND* Debian support? Debian is just a distribution, unless this is some use of the term I'm not familiar with.
- ninja0, on 03/27/2008, -1/+6Gentoo :)
- JohnFlux, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5Where does it say that they broke any API?
- ehal256, on 03/27/2008, -3/+7starting up is for everyone. At least once :P
- dcmjzero, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4http://imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ - Zero Cool talks with Acid Burn.
- 32bytes, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4Debian is a binary distro, and famous for supporting quite a lot of different arquitectures.
Adding support for a new arquitecture in the kernel, does not magically compiles everything for the new arch. - daftman, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3So what's good enough? Run only a small range of hardware?
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3In Ubuntu or any other *nix OS AFAIK reboots are only necessary after kernel upgrades and the like, but only to boot into the new kernel (i.e. you can just not reboot if you want to stay with the old kernel). In Windows, a reboot is required after every systemwide change (i.e. extremely often).
- mike503, on 03/27/2008, -1/+4i ran 2.6.25-rc6 just a few days ago with the new e1000e driver - i had tons of dmesg'ed errors. i don't know how close it is to "release" ... i'm happy to see linux gaining more and more hardware support, but i would like to see it figure out some intelligent way of distributing the kernel in chunks instead of having to download an ever-growing archive that unpacked is over 250 megs now...
- HonoredMule, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3CORPORATE brand loyalty sucks. Loyalty to Linux is more like commendably sticking with your principles.
- DontThinkSo, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Nothing, probably - unless you decide you want to run linux on your NAS.
- tnoy, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3If you actually knew what the article is about, you'd know a 2.6 second boot time is nothing new.
- zman14321, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3After certain major updates ubuntu suggests a reboot. Windows in my experience would ask to reboot and if you said know beat you down with reminders every ten seconds until you gave in. Windows also asked me to reboot every time minor changes were made, and after being logged in for a couple of days the OS would have random hanging issues, be slower and less responsive. Also with windows bizarre problems often went away after reboot. With Microsoft's OS I had to reboot all the time. With gnu/linux its when I feel like it.
- tnoy, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3The kernel is practically useless without the userland tools.
- WorLord, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Debian kernels have a different build mechanism than standard kernels. There's a few extra steps involved, and in the end you get an installable series of *.deb package files out of it, as opposed to the standard VMLinz files. The *.deb files, when installed, do all the kernal installation jazz for you, including the creation of an initrd image and modification of the bootloader.
"Debian Support" is, perhaps, a slight misnomer. I think it means that someone is going to make the Debs and add them to the debian repository soon. - Giga, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2OS X asks to reboot after quite a few updates such as iTunes and wifi stuff.
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3i.e. Windows users.
- t0ny, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2or TurboGears! :)
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4No.
- Sargasso_C, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Maybe, wireless data silos. Maybe, wireless HD streaming servers. Maybe, even, wireless database services for inventory and transaction administration in retail areas. How about, integrating NATs as autonomous components in open urban wireless broadband networks? So many possibilities, so little imagination.
- Remmy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2http://distrogue.blogspot.com/2007/12/digg-redmond ...
- eFiniTi, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Just restart Xorg! Your leet operating system runtime is at stake!
- carlosos, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3I guess you mean Windows 9x users...
- aldableep3, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2can anyone confirm/disprove this? because im pulling my hair out trying to think whether or not megatog is right.. it might actually be console-specific
- Tenoq, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2m100.
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