They have a C compiler. That's all we need.

You can always offload your number crunching to a GPU with OpenCL...

"More seriously, do you have any reference for "Linux is ready for up to a million cores" ?"

SGI has 4096-core monsters, as MrMr pointed out.

Do you have a million-core machine we can use to invalidate this hypothesis?

"I don't even know why Sun paid a billion for it in the first place"

That's it. Fire the 3000 employees closer to whoever made this stupid decision.

Their marketing team should go too.

I moved to PostgreSQL long ago. For me it was subqueries and transactions that made PostgreSQL look very attractive.

I would have no problem in doing stuff on OpenSolaris. Moving the kind of stuff I do to BSD, AIX, HP/UX, OSX or Linux is more or less trivial.

You underestimate the power of executive bonuses. If one has to make a certain number of units sold, he will do it regardless of price.

That's management by managers. And that's what will ultimately kill Microsoft.

Good riddance, BTW

bo-ring!

"Except the moon has no ability to support human colonization"

We just found out it is possible to mine water out of the lunar soil. It's just not easy. It can (perhaps should) be a fully automated operation. Solar energy is also abundant (for 50% of the time, at least) and the soil is rich in aluminum and other materials that would be useful if we wanted to build structural elements of spacecraft there. Obviously we would need to integrate systems built on Earth but once we can build the bulk of the spacecraft along with some fuel for high-thrust (LOX and LH2) as well as argon for orbital operations, we are good. There seems to be some carbon and nitrogen too, so you may be able to even grow food indoors.

It may be hard to make the moon our home, but it is far from impossible. And with it's shallow gravity well, it is quite a nice place to be.

You know: location, location, location

I was going to buy it, you insensitive clod

Actually, depending on what frequencies you use for communication, you may hear the engine very clearly. Unfortunately, unless it passes by at really high (close to c) speeds, you will get no doppler pitch change.

"That's not really a problem. Stargates were placed exclusively on Earth-like planets intentionally by the Ancients."

But all at the same air pressure?

Remember - a stargate pair at sea level and Mexico City will have quite an atmospheric effect on both sides.

Conceivably, you could have airtight doors on the stargate room that would have to be locked before the wormhole is formed.

And, BTW, it's very weird light can't travel through a wormhole when radio waves can

I think you pretty much nailed it: it's about making the userland as independent as possible from the kernel and, in the process, to find any code that makes improper assumptions about the computer it's running on.

You find all sorts of subtle bugs when porting to a different architecture. It must be the same with kernels.

ZFS for those who are suspicious of FUSE and don't want to give up APT.

Actually, if BSD is dead, using it would be more like necrophilia than archeology