From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!matrix.darkstorm.co.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Richards Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: UUDAoBQ3tL0isX+TGGmlkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 2268 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183430 Date: 2013-09-24T07:10:02+00:00 List-Id: On 2013-09-23, Nasser M. Abbasi 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