Re: New WiFi adapter

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 01:01:59 -0400, c186282 wrote:

On 6/3/25 2:06 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 00:21:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    Anyway, I described how to install Linux/Unix on the BeeLink/BMax
    boxes without ever letting WinBlows manifest. It works well. IMHO
    you should have had plenty, maybe exclusively, Linux boxes for at
    LEAST ten years. Vista was kind of The Point where Win should have
    been TOTALLY dumped.

 
I've had Linux boxes for over 25 years. However, being a professional
developer I fucking well better be able to work with Windows since,
like it or not, that is what most organizations use.

 
   I understand perfectly, my exact experience.
 
   But how I *wish* I could have delivered them all out of Winder$
   ........
 
   DID run all the servers/backups/mail on Linux however ......

We tried. Most of the original sites used AIX on RS/6000 servers and
workstations. The Y2K AIX fixes wouldn't work on older hardware and when
the sites looked at the costs to replace it they discovered Windows.

In house we developed on Linux and then tested on AIX. The Makefiles had a
few tweaks for the AIX and Linux builds. The biggest pain were the geo
databases that had to be converted from big to little endian but that
wasn't a big deal.

In other words, we had a complete working and tested Linux solution. Only
two sites went that way, because the administrators were Linux fans. For
the rest we used the NutCracker runtime, sort of a commercial Cygwin, to
port Unix code to Windows, including running an X server for the Motif
GUIs.


Perhaps the sales force didn't try hard enough but Windows won out so we
spent years working around Windows problems.

In later years many sites went to Esri for their GIS and that cinched it.
Esri was very Windows centered and their C++ API was wrapped around COM.
They tried a Linux port emulating COM in Java that was a disaster and was
dropped.