Comment Re:Oracle? (Score 1) 129
If you haven't already, maybe it's time to move to Debian-based distros. I like Mint on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server.
What's wrong with Debian on the desktop and Debian on the server?
If you haven't already, maybe it's time to move to Debian-based distros. I like Mint on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server.
What's wrong with Debian on the desktop and Debian on the server?
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans, naked and terrified, covered in hot grits!
(ye gods, how old is this joke now?)
But where will me mere nerds read about what Roger Federer eats for breakfast?
Hooo boy this comment section is gonna be fun.
I feel like the golden era of altruistic Linux Distributions has long died. It was great when it lasted, but it's a new generation at the reins and everyone's for hire now. The reward isn't always money, but it usually is.
Millennials are hitting 40. They're over the hill now, so their THC-addled minds are mush. This might be a thing for the GenZ kids, actually.
Waiting both of those minutes for the game to download is absolute torture!
This is Slashdot, nobody here knows how the Internet works. It's all just clouds and apps and mobile devices!
I feel like the term 'hack' (even in the wrong sense) is being horrendously overused these days.
If you'll excuse me, I'll have to go back to reading "15 Ways To Hack Your Breakfast"
"a good old-fashioned, dedicated, driven, independent-minded, one-person inventor who feverishly dreams up new things and new possibilities and works for the betterment of humanity.
However that is definitely sub-optimal, and in any case (as the summary notes) the rendering engine itself is still Apple's - regardless of the browser name.
This still sounds way more nefarious than the stuff Microsoft got hit with in the Antitrust suits. How is Apple immune?
I miss Sun. When I was getting into UNIX and Linux type operating systems, they seemed like the only looming tech giant that seemed like they were on 'our' side. I used to really believe in them, and it's sad that they've been eviscerated by a monster that now occasionally wears its skin.
Solaris 7 on x86 was my first UNIX, and even though I didn't have the best hardware for it (It was my first PC build also, and I didn't know anything about HCLs or the like) I still kept using it because I fell in love with it. My computer could dual boot Solaris and Windows95, and you can imagine what kind of a contrast that was.
Scot McNealy's quote is spot on, btw.
186,000 Miles per Second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.