* Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> [2004-06-28 02:36]:
Personally I can't think of a good reason to run any other OS than Linux on a server.
Is *BSD reason enough? ;-) Of course, that's probably not what you were thinking about.. they get dropped into the shadow of Linux too often though.
Apps need more testing, more bug-reports from users, more use of bounds checkers and better development practices from the OSS/FS desktop app crowd.
Unfortunately, that alone won't help. http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html We need more developers with a clue or two, as well.
This is going to become much more important in the coming years. Because after Longhorn comes out a lot of video card makers are going to completely drop the VGA/Textmode & 2D cores of their graphics chips.
You will find that the team around Cairo is already working on addressing that. If Keith has his way, vendors will eventually only have to write an OpenGL driver for their chips and everything else will work automatically. Better yet, Cairo might even get ready for prime time long before Longhorn hits the shelves. Maybe we can still their thunder this time.. Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."