But the local net at the High Lab had transcended—almost without the humans realizing. The processes that circulated through its nodes were complex, beyond anything that could live on the computers the humans had brought. Those feeble devices were now simply front ends to the devices the recipes suggested. The processes had the potential for self-awareness and occasionally the need.

Here here.

Give me a Debian box over Ubuntu any day.

The great benefit of Red Hat is that it's stable and supported for a very long time, like 20 years. They don't change anything major in a release, and releases are few and far between. This is great for 'Enterprise' stuff, but the web is moving quickly and package support for RHEL boxes isn't great.

Having said that, where I work we have lots of stuff on RHEL/CentOS, and more and more stuff on Ubuntu. The Ubuntu stuff keeps me awake at night - literally. It's always falling over. I have never experience a kernel like the one the Ubuntu team are putting are. It's absolutely atrocious. The biggest problem is that the software we need to use has better support for Ubuntu than RHEL, so we're stuck using a dire OS to run it on.

The RHEL and CentOS boxes we have are rock solid stable and have never really given us significant issues. I walk into the office and get a new Ubuntu problem every day.

(FWIW I use Debian for all my own stuff exclusively, so I know my way around Debian-derivatives - this isn't a configuration issue).

I don't know why these anti-systemd posts get upvoted so much. I work with ~40 other Linux sysadmins and we're all excited for systemd, just waiting for our next upgrade cycle (to CentOS/RHEL 7) to start full rollout. systemd makes system administration a joy.

GNU coreutils is also on Gentoo... and Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE, etc, etc, etc.

Not avoiding that plague, are you?

Oops: man systemd.unit

> I have yet to figure out how to even create a service with systemd or how I figure out what I'm depending on.

man systemd.profile

> Let's take my *THREE HOUR* debugging session on systemd yesterday. [...] It would've been [simple] with SysV init because the errors during the mount would've been spewed to the console and I would've seen them.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/So...

30 seconds of Googling.

Not really sure what the problem is here other than your ignorance.

> System admins hate systemD as it does not follow the Unix philosophy of text files and now awk, sed, grep, or perl to batch jobs :-( Firstly, it's systemd. I'm not sure where you're getting the capital from. Secondly, generalise much? I'm a long-time Linux system admin and I can't wait until systemd filters down to server distros like CentOS and Ubuntu LTS. It will make my job a whole lot easier.

Every time they open their mouths they make the PS4 look better.

I'm a Linux sysadmin. My head is so far away from Ballmer's ass you don't even know it.

Ridiculous headline title. All this means is they're going to be moving onto the next version of the OS by then (WP9?). Speculating that they're going to leave the phone market entirely is a little far-fetched at present.

Haha, I actually read the title as "Honda's Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asian" and thought it was wildly inappropriate.

Work on a server emulator is coming along very well apparently. I wouldn't be surprised to see it - and every other game using this type of DRM - 'cracked' in less than a month. It won't work for future releases. Regardless, I'm adding my voice here as another person who will neither be buying or pirating Ubisoft games. I won't pay for a defective game.

You have to pay the CAs, though. How is a small one-man operation coding up some Windows-based free software going to afford the hundreds of dollars needed to fund such a signing?