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Debian Jesse is going to have Gnome3 as the default desktop.
The desktop re-qualification page, used to help choose which desktop will be default, has in the Jesse version a weight for systemd integration, and of course only Gnome3 does it (at least for now). This will surely make the systemd/gnome3 fanbase happy, but possibly will make others unhappy, as it [may] be seen as another step towards mono-culture, until we soon end up with all distros being redhat clones.
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Chess tonight.
(Score: 2) by drussell on Thursday September 25 2014, @02:52PM
From memory around that time, wasn't there some peculiar restriction like linux worked with common PATA IDE hard drives but *BSD only had drivers for like three models of SCSI card so it was SCSI or nothin' with the BSDs?
No, the AC is right. There was never a problem with MFM/RLL or IDE disks. The 'wd' driver handled both MFM/RLL and IDE. The 'ata' driver was introduced years later and dropped support for MFM/RLL but IDE always worked. I actually still have 2 machines here that I'm about to finally pull out of service (currently just doing DNS, internal mail and some logging and somesuch) to replace with less power-hungry hardware (these have been in service since 1999, so 15 years isn't bad :) ) that are using the 'wd' driver still on patched-up, cobbled-together FreeBSD 2.x...
My first installation was to a 40 meg MFM hard drive, then I used IDEs mostly and a few SCSI. The SCSI was in there initially for a tape drive before I started amassing SCSI disks.
I remember old IDE interfaces masking interrupts for like a second per access. And you could tell at the command line just by how responsive the system was / low interrupt latency if you were on a IDE or SCSI box.
SCSI is definitely a beter system for many reasons, and certainly was MUCH better at the time but was much more expensive so for many applications was cost prohibitive. I had to use mainly IDE drives for many years due to cost. Now I still have boxes and boxes of things like factory refurb Seagate 7200 RPM barracudas and a bunch of Fujitsu 7200 and 10k RPM drives. I'll probably never use them all, they just last too darn long! :)
I still use 9.1GB Seagates as boot disks for most of my servers. Ultra robust and I think I still have at least 3 unopened 10-packs and at least another 50 lying around already. :) I also have a whole stack of 2/3 GB Elites. (the 5.25" Seagates). Huge, noisy and suck a TON of power so, of course, I haven't used them for anything for years but they are a great lark to fire up an array of 5.25"ers for someone who's never seen them before! LOL
Of course, I also still have a working 8 Meg, 8" Shugart MFM in my Wang 2200LVP, and a couple of 14" hard disks, a 10 Meg and an 80 Meg... Most people have never seen a 14" hard drive before! (and, they weigh like 250 lbs) Great conversation piece :)
My 80 Meg CDC Phoenix was built (completed) Dec 31, 1980... I'm sure it took more than one day to build those suckers! :)
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cdc/discs/brochures/CDC_9448_CMD_Brochure_Jan81.pdf [trailing-edge.com]