Comment Re:move IT / MIS to tech school / apprenticeship. (Score 1) 463
the theory is what you get at school. the hands on is what you get starting at your first job. you have to have both...
Linux won't even boot on sun4u machines
Hasn't been updated in awhile, but https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC I've also had gentoo and ubuntu running on ultra 5 workstations...
I was reading that the ARM chips support Big and Little endian. Is this selected by the OS or by the firmware? Also does this make a difference for compiled software, such as a binary for a Linux application?
It depends on which ARM... Older armv4, you could load a BE or LE kernel (your userland would have to match the kernel)... For newer versions, you're mostly stuck with LE.
To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well.
what are you smoking? there's a damn good reason you don't have people with a bachelor's degree doing surgery! (nurses make $25-$30/hour) there are so many things that can go wrong, so many complications, so many drug interactions and allergies...
your example only holds if the technician is working on a live circuit where people DIE if he messes up!
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