From: Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:10:02 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2013-09-24T07:10:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l1rdsa$v6i$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: l1qi98$5tg$1@speranza.aioe.org
On 2013-09-23, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> wrote:
> On 9/23/2013 1:05 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>
>>> Make one small program that does one thing, but does it very well, is
>>> what I like about Unix/Linux. (...but I am still waiting for the year that
>>> Linux finally figures how to build an easy to use desktop :)
>>
>
>> Because of the above mentality*, it may never happen.
>>
>
> Well, it has just happened!!
>
> "Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here"
> "Intel sees Linux as the leading end-user operating system."
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/intel-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-here-7000020849/
>
> (I do however remember reading articles such the above in each of the last
> 10 or more years claiming the same thing, so we just have to wait and see
> if this year is _really_ that year that everyone has been waiting for or not :)
>
If it does happen it will be interesting to see what the Linux kernel devs
say and do (see Theodore Tso's comments elsewhere) about Intel's hardware
RNG and other possible smoke and mirrors in light of the Snowden affair.
I suspect people "in the know" won't touch Intel-supplied anything with a
thousand foot pole. Our business is run on non-Intel architecture hardware
anyway but the few Intel boxes we did have were replaced with AMD years ago.
Bill
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards [this message]
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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