Re: What use can i give to linux?
On 2024-04-06, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> On 4/6/24 11:07, Curt wrote:
>> On 2024-04-05, John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:
>>> Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses
>>> Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux
>>> on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web
>>> servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay. Almost all
>>> supercomputers use Linux. Linux has a large and growing share of the
>>> automotive market. Your router almost certainly runs Linux.
>>
>> Yeah, but Grandma's still using Windows XP
> .
> And she will never experience its only major bug, the timer rollover at
> 46.something days. She will never leave it running that long. That was
> the most stable windows ever published. That was the only reason we
> ever rebooted the machine that literally ran the WDTV news dept back in
> its day despite the reporters best efforts to crash it. I'd calculate
> when it had to be rebooted & stick a postit note on it. And kept a copy
> in my office to remind me when it was time to go reboot it.
Well, you'll be reassured to note that she is now defunct. Where the
machine ended up, I am unaware. Her ashes are currently confined in some
buried urn.
Time heals all wounds, n'est-ce pas ?
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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