Which do you spend more time interacting with: your operating system, or your software? It's possible to get too pedantic with the answer as ultimately everything comes back to the operating system, but really, the answer is your software.
The following list is derived from my personal experience, both as a former Linux newbie, and in the dealings I have had with other Linux newbies. Linux newbies often have a lot of misconceptions about what Linux is, and about how they should learn it. These statements are meant to contradict some of those misconceptions.
Moving on from where we left off last time, this article isn't so much the next in the series as much as it's just tidying up some random loose ends. And so, to business.
The Linux Solution Group (LiSoG) has presented specifications for, and a prototype of, desktop benchmark OSDtBench (Open Source based Desktop Benchmark) at LinuxTag.
Let’s accept up front that the next Amazon, Google or Microsoft is not going to be able to purchase hardware as cheaply as the last Amazon, Google and Microsoft. That’s strike one.
The goal of the envisioned UHPC program is to provide the revolutionary technology needed to meet the steadily increasing demands of DoD applications – from embedded to command center and expandable to high performance computing systems.