crn.com.au— "Red Hat's no-show at LinuxWorld generated a lot of buzz on the show floor and had attendees scratching their heads about why the biggest Linux distributor didn't exhibit at the biggest Linux show."
Aug 17, 2006View in Crawl 4
Did anyone else get really angry at all the "My OS is better than yours", "Not it's not you can't...", "Sure you can, but you cant..." threads and in a fit of rage digg them all down. Or was that just me? Stop the winges, the article has nothing to do with the virtues of one OS over another, there are more than enough of those elsewhere on digg for you to play in. Please.
"Be able to hear sound on said videos while having another audio application open."That's actually a hardware issue, and has nothing to do with the OS. Many sound cards can only play PCM audio from one source at a time; some, such as the SoundBlaster Live! and Audigy family, can mix multiple sound sources in hardware.Linux can do software mixing for sound cards that don't have hardware mixing; it's called dmix.
ovbiously there are 3 kinds of peopleWindows peopleUnix peopleMacOS people(and yes i know the whole "MacOS is *based* on blah blah")If you pick one of them, and you don't like it, STFU and go back to whichever you like, you can run anything under linux, the question is only "how", if that "how" is too much for you then return to your Windows world and leave it to the *more* technically inclined people.
Teehee. Thats the most I've ever been dugg down before. Ever notice how the fanatics are anything but Windows people.I'm just totally over the whole "im going to use Linux to stick it to the man" thing. I'm not a Windows fan, or a Linux fan, or a MAC OS fan, theyre all just operating systems for christs sake, its the application within that makes the difference, and unfortunately the only choice for my personally is Windows, as I know everything I want to do can be catered for, and catered for well.
I would imagine Red Hat wasn't generating revenue from Linux World. If your business is at Linux World, you run Linux, either Red Hat or SuSE probably (in the enterprise). Are you going to change because of a few booth goodies? No. So what's the point? LinuxWorld is more for people to show off their new toys and show how their product is available and can manage linux better than blah blah blah. So, Red Hat doesn't attend. It really doesn't matter if all the layered products support Red Hat and you are still running it.
I talked to a few RedHat customers who expressed concern about this for various reasons. The primary concern was that they viewed LinuxWorld as a chance to get some face time with their vendors.
myrmAug 17, 2006
Did anyone else get really angry at all the "My OS is better than yours", "Not it's not you can't...", "Sure you can, but you cant..." threads and in a fit of rage digg them all down. Or was that just me? Stop the winges, the article has nothing to do with the virtues of one OS over another, there are more than enough of those elsewhere on digg for you to play in. Please.
ryanliveAug 17, 2006
Linux != Red Hat
meltingrobotAug 17, 2006
Umm, RedHat Summit wasn't that long ago. Why do they need to attend every conference that exists?
wyzardAug 17, 2006
"Be able to hear sound on said videos while having another audio application open."That's actually a hardware issue, and has nothing to do with the OS. Many sound cards can only play PCM audio from one source at a time; some, such as the SoundBlaster Live! and Audigy family, can mix multiple sound sources in hardware.Linux can do software mixing for sound cards that don't have hardware mixing; it's called dmix.
joesnowAug 17, 2006
ovbiously there are 3 kinds of peopleWindows peopleUnix peopleMacOS people(and yes i know the whole "MacOS is *based* on blah blah")If you pick one of them, and you don't like it, STFU and go back to whichever you like, you can run anything under linux, the question is only "how", if that "how" is too much for you then return to your Windows world and leave it to the *more* technically inclined people.
mlkmnzAug 17, 2006
Teehee. Thats the most I've ever been dugg down before. Ever notice how the fanatics are anything but Windows people.I'm just totally over the whole "im going to use Linux to stick it to the man" thing. I'm not a Windows fan, or a Linux fan, or a MAC OS fan, theyre all just operating systems for christs sake, its the application within that makes the difference, and unfortunately the only choice for my personally is Windows, as I know everything I want to do can be catered for, and catered for well.
sshguyAug 18, 2006
I would imagine Red Hat wasn't generating revenue from Linux World. If your business is at Linux World, you run Linux, either Red Hat or SuSE probably (in the enterprise). Are you going to change because of a few booth goodies? No. So what's the point? LinuxWorld is more for people to show off their new toys and show how their product is available and can manage linux better than blah blah blah. So, Red Hat doesn't attend. It really doesn't matter if all the layered products support Red Hat and you are still running it.
mennisAug 8, 2007
I talked to a few RedHat customers who expressed concern about this for various reasons. The primary concern was that they viewed LinuxWorld as a chance to get some face time with their vendors.