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If they want a distro that they can run a long time... maybe they should try a distro that is supported for a long time. I believe my CentOS 5 machine...

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I can only presume he's confusing Linux with Windows, which used to swap out my web browser when I copied a 2GB file from one disk to another so it could...

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Yeah, this was one of the first things I turned off on Ubuntu. I absolutely hate them. I particularly hate this absurd idea of trying to 'save' horizontal...

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NeWS apps were hard to write and dog-slow. Xview apps were almost trivially easy to write, and performed well, given the limitations of the hardware of...

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Yes, of course, it's not because systemd is becoming increasingly bloated and hard to remove due to hooks into many different projects, but because Users...

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No, we don't need to support static linking. Static linking is for idiots, because it means the only way to fix bugs in a common library is to wait for...

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The great thing about Windows is that zlib is a DLL... but every piece of crap program has its own copy.

I lost count of the number of...

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However, SSDs perform compression internally to reduce flash writes, so you may gain a bit more disk space, but you lose drive lifespan as it has to write...

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Consoles?

Are those the things casual gamers used to play on before they moved to tablet and phone games? Didn't realize they were still...

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In my experience, most people don't want to use Red Hat in production systems until at least the .1 release, so I don't see any reason to rush to 7 unless...

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Database server. I think it's 48TB after the RAID takes out a few disks....

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Some of our systems use XFS on RHEL6, solely because EXT4 on RHEL6 is limited to 16TB, and it has a marked tendency to truncate files to zero bytes when...

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Just recreating the partition table with the same settings should work. So long as you know what those settings were.

Certainly I've done...

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I'm sure Google are really worried about their, what, 80%? 90%? marketshare on mobile devices around the world.

Personally, I've considered...

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Don't worry. In another few years everyone will be saying 'you know, I've got this great idea. Why don't we all implement the same API on all our hardware,...