Is Open Source the new cell phone? [LWN.net]

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 16, 2004 0:46 UTC (Tue) by XERC (guest, #14626)
Parent article: Is Open Source the new cell phone?

I guess, that it depends on the management.

If the management consists at least 50% of people
with Ph.D.-s in some technical or life science related
discipline(biology, chemistry, IT, math, physics, etc.), then they
are aware, that they are not necessarily always smart enough
to dictate the IT-department, which platform should be
used, specially, if the IT-department also consists of
Ph.D-s, who develop internal solutions for the rest.

I know it from practice. :) Life is not all that bad! :)

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Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 16, 2004 9:35 UTC (Tue) by philips (guest, #937) [Link]

Yes. And most importantly, executives are not always knowlegeable enough to now internal infrastructure.

Fresh example. My company officially do not support, do not use Linux. At all. Well, okay. Firewall runs Linux with maquerade. Webserver is SUSE with Apache. All print servers are run under Linux.

As in my current company, development of development process is stalled mainly by cygwin/cvs & bunch of proprietary Windoz-only tools (from WindRiver). Still most employees are using Emacs as their primary IDE.

One hell of a mix.

So probably another day you will come to new company, and find that your new desktop run WinXP under Boch under Linux ;-)))

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 16, 2004 9:36 UTC (Tue) by philips (guest, #937) [Link]

And obviously exec on interview will be ensuring you that company do not use Linux. At all.

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 16, 2004 11:06 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

XP under Bochs under Linux? Impressive: a way to make XP run even slower than it does already. ;}

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 17, 2004 9:32 UTC (Wed) by druiloor (guest, #26069) [Link]

XP under Bochs under Linux? Impressive: a way to make XP run even slower than it does already. ;}

Maybe use QEMU instead:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 16, 2004 22:58 UTC (Tue) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link]

Most of our workstations are Windows only,
but all of them use reanVNCto access Linux
and Linux based Sun GridEngine.

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 17, 2004 9:58 UTC (Wed) by Krakow (guest, #26070) [Link]

Have you tried FreeNX yet? Once you use it you can kiss goodbye to VNC. Too slow.

Is Open Source the new cell phone?

Posted Nov 17, 2004 10:03 UTC (Wed) by druiloor (guest, #26069) [Link]

Some time ago, i overheard a phone call to our department (ICT) allong the lines of:

Yes, we do use this "Linux thing" you talk about. As a matter of fact you have had a Linux powered machine on your desk for the past two years or so. However your desktop actually runs on a Citrix farm (which is MS-Windows) and most any button you press there fires off some kind of "frontend" (to: database, terminal-server, X clienthost, or whatever) again running Unix. Well, we configured it this way - so users wouldn't notice. Yeah if your kid wants to check this out, have him hit Crtl-Alt-F1/-F7. Cheers.