The last corporation I worked for had their entire estate of developers running a mixture of CentOS / RedHat on their developer desktops. You can't tell me 5000+ employees of this corporation are 'fanboys', can you?

The current business I work for has all of their systems administrators running Linux on their desktop (Fedora and/or CentOS). If you're a serious user of the Linux technology stack, you'd better not be using Windows as by comparison it's shit.

... and JBoss also kicks ass - from someone who's had to support multiple clusters of application servers distributed around the globe. RedHat + JBoss make this dead easy to manage and monitor, thank god!

P.S. it's now called WildFly.

FTFY

I have recently implemented RStudio for a customer. http://www.rstudio.com/ It's a web interface for R which appears to be clean and easy to use. Installation was straightforward from RPM, you only need R-core, R-devel xdgutils and the rstudio RPM itself.

Oh god! This is a terrible post. It's like comparing apples and oranges. These are two totally different cases... Slashdot, you are quickly becoming the worst tech news site on the Internet :(

How does this play with SGE / OGE? Can you centrally configure each node to mount a share? How about install a custom kernel, modules, packages, infiniband config and Lustre mount? If it can do these then it's going to be useful for real clusters.

THIS.

I didn't do the maths and just installed an SSD as my OS disk... in 2010. It's still there now despite being used daily and having been re-installed a couple of times (yes, Windows).

I'm struggling to see why this is my problem? If I work in a job that doesn't pay enough for me to survive, I find a new job. Why should these people be treated any differently just because they're self-employed musicians?

it's "hanged".

This would be the browser plugin you're talking about? Websites are not served up by browser plugins. Stop spreading lies.

I would have thought that being responsible for a motor vehicle with the engine started, whilst drunk, would be a bad idea.

If you read the BBC article you will see that development has already started. The funding is to complete the development.
"Although some early work on the multiplayer title had been done at Mr Braben's game studio Frontier Developments, but needed the cash to turn the code into a finished playable product. If the game did not hit its funding target then development work would stop."

Didn't exist on the BBC or Amstrad platforms, thank god. I did have to use those to play Total Eclipse though, and some days I gave up before getting into the damn game!

I played the original Elite on the BBC Micro and the Amstrad CPC 464/6128. I absolutely loved it. The only thing that was missing for me was an online mode where you could do battle against your friends, or team up and kick some Thargoid ass in witch space. I can't wait.