It killed the consumer GPS market and it will kill the consumer digicam market too. It hasn't and won't touch pro-sumer let alone pro GPS/camera markets. "Phones" are becoming the jack of all trades, master of none.

Way to keep the troll alive. I know you are just trying to get a rise out of people, but come on, digging up a term from like 1995 isn't very convincing. I personally run Solaris (and production systems at work) because there is nothing in the space that scales like it. Even for single thread applications (and only one of them) with no memory requirements it is just as fast (now at least, early x86 versions of Solaris didn't perform as well as their SPARC counterparts) as FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, etc.

I could go on to bash Linux et al but, but what would be the point? What ever suits your needs the best is the best OS. Oh, I remember, this is slashdot, we make uninformed, brash comments here now. In 2000, this was a forum for killing FUD, now it is hear to spread FUD.

To the original poster, I think, if you want a better debate, you should take it to serverfault.com

This requires a citation.

And why not? ZFS is still great in single disk setups. It will tell you when you data is corrupt way more reliably than older filesystems. It just won't auto-correct it because thare are only check sums, not parity for those blocks. It still is way more robust and resistant to corruption that older file-systems. It's easier to manage ... blah blah blah. Oh yeah, if I set copies=2 or 3 or 4 or 5 I CAN indeed automatically repair corruption due to sector failures,etc just like in a multi disk setup. I can also tell it to make multiple copies of the meta data on a single disk.

That is covered very clearly in the blog article referenced from the Register article. http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/zfs_dedup

The only one that didn't want Palm products to succeed was Palm. Horrible products. Support EOL for all their products were the day they shipped. Rarely got any sort of bug fixes, never any additional features. Palm Desktop for Mac is still a PowerPC only application (runs on intel via rosetta). Why bother trying to support something the vendor has no interest in supporting? I'll never make the mistake of buying another Palm product (I've had 2, Palm Pro and Palm T5). I've never heard anyone say a good thing about their Treo so I never went there. I don't expect anything will change with the Pre. I also don't understand the Pre hype, it's not bringing anything new to the table.

Ah, I love PHP. Oh wait, that's not love... that's hate, disdain and frustration.

Please mod this post up. PHP is ridiculously bad. When you build things with a huge committee you are likely to get something bad, when you build something with a huge committee of people that have never programmed before, only edited someone's perl CGI, you get PHP.

Huh? Are you confused? Both companies made the stupid mistake of using a web scripting language to do backend heavy lifting. Twitter is fixing that with Scala. (leaving RoR on the frontend because its really good at web frontends) Facebook already fixed that with ERLANG, not PHP. (leaving PHP on the frontend because of the technical debt they've accumulated) http://www.facebook.com/eblog BTW, PHP is the worst language ever. That is a fact, not my opinion.

What does rails have to do with building in an unscalable way? You could say the same but sub in php, c, java, perl, .net, etc. As I understand it most of their problems stem from them thinking a SQL database would make a good message bus.

http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234132982&sr=8-1 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Very interesting book and should get students of that age excited about math and science IF they are predisposed to that sort of thing.

I think you're comparing against SATA drives. People that worry about IOPS are normally using FC drives which are much more closely aligned in price with SSDs. (btw, been a while since I was in the market for FC drives)