So an article lacking knowledge of the technologies, any sort of testing, anything beyond "make install" or "apt-get install", will make it to the Slashdot homepage? This person openly admits that they didn't test ZFS beyond creating a zpool, and they don't know enough about DTrace to try... anything.

As an aside, why was Linux capitalized, but Solaris was not?

Except for the fact that USB displays suck for speed, drivers, and usability across platforms, while Thunderbolt can go right to HDMI without issue?

I agree, it'll be hard to pry the CLI from my cold, dead fingers.

But I'm always game to try out something that rethinks what I'm doing. Gnome 3 became a permanent fixture that way.. :)

I think it's neat, and I don't own any Apple machines anymore. It's a neat perspective, and something I'd like to try out, though I wouldn't necessarily see it usable for day to day activities.

Then again, trollin' is fun, I suppose.

If you read carefully, it runs on WebKit, but uses OS X to show it off. They've already got it working in a browser, some enterprising soul will just need to generate a small WebKit component to run it on another OS.

The kind of person that loves-vim-long-time is probably not looking for a graphic-enhanced shell, either.

There are other operating systems beyond Windows and OS X. Linux is one of many with a miniscule desktop market share. FreeBSD is another contender, and to drop support completely is short sighted with little benefit. Interface with abstractions, maybe create the Linux interface to that abstraction, and allow others to interface to those abstractions. Two birds, one stone.

Here's me, wishing I had mod points.

You share a credit rating?

a) It's Perl, not PERL
b) Given the code I've been slogging through the last few years, it seems Perl is no more "write only" than PHP, Java, or C.

I would be curious why someone would combine a lack of local privileges with the inability to remotely administer those workstations.

So, because ext3 implementations on other OSes are slow, that means ext3 is slow? Got it.

Try running ZFS on FreeBSD, or better yet, on the original OS: Solaris.

Hm. I've always seen power as the most expensive part of an enterprise deployment -- see also why these companies are building data centers in cheap-power areas.

Fair enough ;)

I think it's better than most desktop keyboards. The only exception is if you're one of those people who still hangs on to their clicky IBM AT keyboard, or if you like those freaky 'natural' keyboards.