Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/18/2024 8:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:30:59 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

25-40 years ago there were workstations running VMS, SunOS, Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix, Tru64 etc..
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Today a workstations is just a marketing term for a high-end PC running
Windows or Linux.

 Linux is the one that still offers the full “workstation” capabilities.
Microsoft called their desktop version of NT “Workstation”, but all its
server-like capabilities were carefully crippled to avoid cannibalizing
sales of its actual servers.

Most (commercial) Linux distros comes with a "server" version and a
"desktop" version.
Redhat has a "workstation" version, but it is really a desktop version.
I don't think there is much difference in how Linux vendors and
Microsoft position server and desktop products.
There probably is a difference in how server applications
act. Some Windows server application will actually require a
Windows server edition. I don't think many Linux server
applications will actually check if it is running on
a server edition or desktop edition of RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu/whatever.
For many reasons (it would be very non-Linux'ish, it would
be lot of work to maintain a list of all Linux distro editions,
a lot of it is open source so it would be easy to remove a check
and rebuild).
Arne