It's something that's general knowledge for the majority of Slashdot readers, and doesn't need to be explained in the summary. Also, the Slashdot target audience is capable of using a search engine to look up something if they don't know what it is.

So much has changed since XP that they will need to be trained anyway.

If Sun wanted to hate freedom, would they have released it under an open source license, as approved by the OSI?

Sun used their own Open Source license, which they've had for quite a while (and released quite a bit of software over the years using). The issue is "Free" vs "Free" vs "Open Source"

Not the ZFS teams fault that the GPL hates freedom.

irix64-mips4. It's sorta my understanding that they are going with "if it works, great, but we're not going out of our way to make it work" attitude. I'm going to give it a test to see if it works, since GCC dropped IRIX.

Until Microsoft moves to IBM style licensing where you pay for the cores on the hardware, regardless of what you are assigning to the virtual machine.

I'm a fan of the way Oracle is doing the licensing on the Oracle DB Appliance - the box comes with lots of cores, but you license them on demand.

And how much more does it cost you in power to run that AMD? Plus add on cost for a more powerful PSU.

No idea yet. I'd expect AMD still rules on performance per $, and am interested in seeing the performance per watt and performance per core metrics. Interested in seeing how it lines up against POWER 8 and Intel's new Xeon (I personally wish AMD could compete in performance per watt against Intel. I'll keep wishing).

Except they really don't act like UNIX, do they? I avoid GNU when I can, they're a pain in my rear at this point.

Explains the whole RHEL-Desktop, doesn't it?

Meh. Oracle just announced a 32-core Sparc proc, with variable thread count (1-8 per core, depending on load need - if it needs better single thread performance is shuts off the other threads). AMD's move next.

I think you might be right on that one. It was a Debian decision.

Since Linux is widespread in enterprises, fringe distros have ceased to matter for most people. Not knowing how to use yum (or in rarer cases apt and yast) means that saying you know Linux isn't true. As much as I like Slackware, they're a minority that nobody cares about. Nobody that matters anyway. People use CentOS because it's compatible with RHEL, right down to the security holes. We're approaching the point that saying "I am a Linux admin" will mean you know systemd and firewalld.