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- kd420, on 11/27/2008, -7/+195If I was running a multi-million dollar machine, I'd sure want to know what's in the code I'm using. In this respect, open source is the only way to go because it yields the maximum amount of control, simple as that. It just so happens that some people treat their home PCs the same way.
- CAD420, on 11/27/2008, -12/+150Well seriously, what the hell did you expect it to run? Vista??
- Jenadae, on 11/27/2008, -74/+161Oh STFU already
- mrbutter, on 11/27/2008, -47/+111No *****, I'd like to know how this affects me directly though.
Oh wait it doesn't. I'll stick with Windows. - voodoozombie, on 11/27/2008, -6/+58Title is misleading. It should say The world’s fastest computers have Linux installed.
- inactive, on 11/27/2008, -3/+54The Pentagon finally got computers now?
- specialK16, on 11/27/2008, -4/+54Yup, every year is the year of Linux. That's how awesome it is.
- CoreyTamas, on 11/27/2008, -4/+52Britney Spears outsells Mozart 100 to 1.
Can you see what I did there? - DuMbGuM, on 11/28/2008, -1/+41lol.. i'm not a fan of Linux, but that reply was just plain retarded.
- JustinNoland, on 11/27/2008, -3/+39No.
- bulbasuar, on 11/28/2008, -3/+37If you were running a multi million dollar machine, the code would be the most important aspect because most likely, you and you're team are the ones writing the code that machine is running. So by using a operating system that is closed you are hindering your own operations efficiency by not being able to change anything on demand to work your code better. Remember, running these applications are million dollar ventures by themselves, and probably cost more then the machines they are running on, so it is absolutely prudent that everything involved is controlled to the fullest, which is why a open source system is far superior to the majority of the other possibilities.
- mockupscaledown, on 11/28/2008, -1/+35I'm beginning to think Digg is populated by single-cell organisms.
Input stimulus: Fast computer.
Output response: Can it run Crysis? - kreatr, on 11/27/2008, -35/+64so it feels great to digg this story from Firefox running on Ubuntu ..
- inactive, on 11/27/2008, -10/+39Of course not, we need to develop a supercomputer powerful enough for Vista.
/rimshot - 4321234, on 11/27/2008, -0/+24For supercomputers it's been the year of linux for a while now.
- DickBreath, on 11/28/2008, -0/+24Clue-challenged, please note Linux is also good for:
* Cell Phones (Motorola RAZR/CRZR), Google Android, etc.
* Inexpensive Netbooks. (Worst Buy has a Linux Eee PC for $279. I promise they will get way cheaper than this in time. Last year, at this time, a lesser configured Eee Pc was $399. Just to be clear, I expect cheap plastic Netbooks to eventually RETAIL for less than the OEM cost of Windows.)
* Consumer electronics (TiVo, Netflix Roku, Blockbuster roku-like competitor, all kinds of Wireless routers)
* Toys (i-sobot)
* Google, Amazon, large (eg, LARGE) web systems. (eg, Akami, etc) Ask them why they don't use Windows.
* Mainframes (IBM, Sun)
* Databases (For instance, Linux is ORACLE's first choice to run their product upon)
* Supercomputers (What percent of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux? What percent run Windows? What percent run other flavors of Unix? Why is that?)
I suppose it is because, as you stupidly say, Linux is only good for web browsing. - flickrer, on 11/27/2008, -38/+61But can they run Crysis?
- inactive, on 11/27/2008, -17/+40Most of the stories you read here don't directly affect you. Stick with Windows, and all your malware removers.
- MiChuhSuh, on 11/28/2008, -2/+24S T F U !
WTF is up with Crysis jokes every time there's any computer related issue. I bet someone could put up a video of Crysis running PERFECTLY on a machine and you retards would comment "Yeah that's cool... but can it run Crysis???" - TheJimid, on 11/27/2008, -9/+31Tell that to the Pentagon.
- BrainInAJar, on 11/27/2008, -3/+23At what point does this ship of theseus version of linux cease to be linux?
To clarify, the worlds fastest computers run a custom kernel, with linux API's and userland. - 47f0, on 11/28/2008, -3/+23Wrong. My dad was involved in re-writing part of the IBMs f77 compiler for a special need Cities Service had. Why? Because the code absolutely does matter in high-performance computing. In this case, the array handling code was optimized for data used in geophysical data processing. Think of auto racing. Those teams optimize the cars from top to bottom. You just couldn't do that if someone sold you a Chevy as a race car with the hood welded shut.
- ABadPerson, on 11/27/2008, -2/+20But Slide Rules are impervious to the commie's knock off nukes!
- smotpoker, on 11/28/2008, -5/+23I would strongly encourage anyone who cites Windows' popularity as just cause for it's insecurity to go do some research on how many botched/ineffective security patches they've released and how long it's taken to release them compared to other OSes.
Windows doesn't get it's rep for insecurity based solely on the amount of malware. It is the product of worm-name.a through worm-name.z being able to essentially exploit the same vulnerability repeatedly, malware being able to get access it shouldn't to thoroughly secure it's position once it exploited the flaw, taking forever to find/patch a given flaw even when they have a working specimen of the malware to observe/analyze and because so often the vulnerabilities were completely obvious from the start. - 47f0, on 11/28/2008, -5/+22Really? Try sticking to windows next time you google something - or hit the Internet. Google runs on Linux. A majority of the Internet runs some flavor of *nix. You're using it, like it or not.
- Chakat, on 11/28/2008, -0/+15Yes
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2005-11/linux-po ... - jvincent08, on 11/28/2008, -3/+18I want to bury this because its a "no *****" article. Everyone already knows that Linux runs the majority of the world's fastest computers...
...but I want to digg it because I love Linux so much. - smotpoker, on 11/27/2008, -0/+14Ever read the Asimov short-story where humanity forgot basic maths? Some janitor rediscovered them and Earth decided to replace all of their interstellar-missile guidance systems with soldiers because they were cheaper.
I forget if they won that war or not but your comment reminded me of the story :P - JayD16, on 11/28/2008, -1/+14Actually, supercomputers are normally used by multiple users who buy or request time on the machine. Unix and systems like were designed for multiuser systems that need a lot of isolation and security. Operating systems like Windows or OSX were designed for a single user...
Even if you get past the obvious problems of hardware differences between a supercomputer and a desktop, these OS just aren't designed to run on supercomputers from an architectural stand point. - waddling, on 11/27/2008, -2/+15Surprise, surprise... not
- Stonekeeper, on 11/27/2008, -1/+13Yeah, I can't imagine why people going to a tech news site would want to know about this...
- strangewill, on 11/28/2008, -3/+15"...security of the OS, but the gullibility of the user..."
^This is the key. Especially considering how many users run as root all the time...
However, to shamelessly bash Windows due to malware as if it's a poor choice based just on this premise just kind of shows a lack of understanding of the industry... Windows has it's place, there is no shame in users making use of it.
I use a mix of Linux and Windows (and OSX if I can ever get it running on VMware), they have their strengths and weaknesses, and I don't need to give some piss poor remark for someone saying "I'll stick with _(OS name here)_" because I don't really understand the industry enough or have so much bias that I can't make a well informed opinion. - joshua850, on 11/27/2008, -3/+15
I can't figure out if you're contradicting yourself or having trouble with English. - iKs279, on 11/28/2008, -1/+13And acting as a web server for digg, and Google, and..
- joshua850, on 11/27/2008, -1/+13They put so much crap on new systems, you almost have to. There is a pretty useful utility called PC Decrapifier that removes all the bundleware and Norton crap from new systems for you.
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/ - inactive, on 11/27/2008, -3/+15And who runs the majority of web servers? Hint: It's not Microsoft.
- netneutrality, on 11/27/2008, -1/+13Woeful comments. :-/
- DreadKnight, on 11/28/2008, -1/+12***** Crysis!
- inactive, on 11/27/2008, -3/+13If it's in the world of business Cost > Fifteen minutes of solving issues. And when the issues are gone, they're actually gone - interesting concept, eh?
If you've got pros it doesn't take that damn long - darienphoenix, on 11/28/2008, -6/+16Seriously, how can anyone be a Microsoft fanboy?
It's like enjoying being regularly raped. - harisund, on 11/27/2008, -3/+13"My roomate just bought a new laptop."
"I always format new computer or laptops"
Why do you format your roommate's laptop? Jeez, let him be. - CoreyTamas, on 11/27/2008, -4/+14Also that we are *****.
I believe that was a key part of his post. - rpieszak, on 11/28/2008, -0/+10But, how do you really feel?
- inactive, on 11/28/2008, -0/+10To add to the "Root user" thing, a lot of people use Root because it feels like the admin equivalent in Linux. This is the wrong assumption - You almost Never need admin priviledges to do what you want because the only time you actually need to modify files beyond your own home is for installing or fixing an issue created by messing with files outside of home. Other than that it's misuse - unless your OS or you have improperly setup other harddrives/partitions but that's an unrelated issue.
The audio issues for non-root are also gone in the latest lineup of Linux distros as far as i can tell. I haven't had to try solving an audio issue in around 3 years :) - inactive, on 11/27/2008, -3/+13*****? Are you 11?
- niczar, on 11/27/2008, -3/+13And Windows as 99.9% market share ... in virus, trojans, and anti-virus.
Do you know what the difference between a virus and an anti-virus? One will slow down you computer to a crawl, generates plenty of bugs, try to get you to pay hundreds of dollar a year, and generally prevent your computer from working properly. The other is a computer program that reproduces itself automatically from computer to computer. - identitymatrix, on 11/28/2008, -0/+10I found this comment pretty funny considering I am currently using Ubuntu to work on my class project which is to write and training a machine learning algorithm on a 2GB Netflix dataset.
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