Nobody did say that.
Nobody did say that.
I think that the Foundation disagree with you:
Suspend/Resume as well, see above link ;-)
I wouldn't be so sure. One off pops of money like this have happened in the past. Whilst they are absolutely great, they can only go so far. And then finding developers with the specific skills to give the money to is the *actual* challenge. :/
For the hardware specs.
I was replying to the other person in some other reasons. I am the one here advocating hardware support for enhanced user experience
)I'd never buy a gaming machine if I don't have to play.
This is where you kind of have to know enough to be able justify the high cost of an Epyc/Xeon when compared to a high-end desktop/laptop. How do you know that an extra PCIe lane or two will make a difference for the render speeds of projects you routinely do? Is your job performance review riding on whether that render completes on time? Or do your paying customers want to switch to a public host for your code repo because of your bandwidth limitations? Then yeah, paying 5x more for enterprise-grade hardware with appropriate specs jacked up as much as practical - that can be a good investment, because you'll get a good ROI.
That's what I was saying. Supporting better laptop tech like Wireless, Bluetooth etc on FreeBSD would pull in more developers who want to use FreeBSD on the go, not just on servers. Right now, if someone tries FreeBSD on their laptop and struggles with something basic like Wi-Fi or sound, they’ll move on to Linux or something else. By improving these areas, FreeBSD would become a real option for devs using laptops, and those devs could bring their skills and contributions back to the project. More hardware support = more people willing to stick around and help out.
Or more people to put additional stress on existing developers and generate fatigue.
Slightly unrelated but ironically my X220 is my "gaming" machine (my X230 onwards has a crap keyboard). Though granted, I only really play a bit of Half-Life these days.
While you're at it, can you please figure out what's up with N-Key laptop keyboards under FreeBSD?
? This is not a cost. It's an investment.
If you're talking about rendering the difference in terms of speed and reliability between a Quadro and a GeForce is like heaven and earth.
It's always a good ROI if you're doing serious work. The initial cost of that workstation will pay for itself.
Sorry but that's not like this. And look that workstation-class graphics card also have ECC capabilities in their VRAM, so they are not prone to corruptions. And corruptions cost money.
The waste of money is running consumer hardware for workload designed for workstations.
Clock speed is not the only measure unit. When you're working, reliability and optimizations matter as much as the clock speed.
That only matters if you have any money riding on the outcome.
In my experience this means "more laptop hardware support needed", though.
Hm. That might raise the question, for what purpose do the developers actually develop? Certainly they can develop for their personal satisfaction, that is perfectly legal, and irrelevant for anybody else.
That is true, if you are businessman with no clue about how the hardware works, neither what your requirements precisely are. Then you have to listen to the marketing babble and believe that they provide the "solutions" they promise.
Potentially just to scratch a personal itch. I.e most of my hobby software I write for myself, not for random users. I think that this is fairly common. Though certainly some developers may also write free software in a way to prove a point that the commercial alternative is crap. These projects are likely to be more "user-friendly".
The difference between a "user" 20 years ago is very different from the general masses that use a computer today. I would want my tower to be solid iron to keep out the mass population of mouth breathing flat earth twits you find online these days.
Indeed. I live by the rule of: If I wouldn't engage with a certain type of person in real-life; why the hell would I online? Yes, extracting money from them is one reason, that the internet "appears" to cater to them. But free-software communities don't particularly have to play ball with that idea.
It matters when you have to decide if putting your business at risk is worth the money you believe you’re saving by buying something not suitable for the task.
Yeah, and that is totally valid an can be real fun.
... goes more into this direction. But that is more difficult to pronounce.
Even if you'd know about how hardware works, you still should choose what it really matters to you: saving money in the short term or running a business properly.
Yes, we're saving money.
Yes, I did run these. And then they were replaced by Linux. It did not only cost a fraction, but a good magnitude less.
Consulting was once. Then came outsourcing. And now it is cloud. Nobody knows what's going on anymore? Well then we can just roll out better methods. DevOps etc. Big market.
This is the old story: we engineers could create something real fancily good and thought-through, but when seeing the price-tag, it will be cancelled by management, with the simple argument: the cheap stuff does also work.
ooh, ooh:
No, you're not. That's the problem.
Yes. Now, calculate how much you are spending in VMware, OpenShift, APMs etc. and then came back here to tell me how much you're saving. I'll tell you: you're not saving anything.
Unfortunately no, companies are still paying consultants because porting things in cloud requires knowledge, especially since technology is nowadays so complicated that staying up to date is becoming a full time job. Then they pay outsourcing companies to manage the day by day operations in their tenants.
I know and it's fine.
Well, enterprise disks are not that inexpensive, though. Companies spend big bucks in storage.
Right.
Are you really comparing a modern era hardware with a workstation from the '90? Are you serious? It's like boasting that your modern citycar is faster than a carriage from the '800.Reconcile THAT for me, please!
My phone today can run the stuff that would make an Ultra SPARC workstation crash and emit smoke from the PSU. A $500 computer today can run stuff that was a pipe dream for $5000 workstations of 1980s and 1990s. ?
Yeah, try finding SPARC and POWER - based stuff... Those architectures have been off the market for awhile. Even Xeons and Epycs are x86_64... and aarch64, which is more efficient than SPARC/POWER, is so easily available, it's even in your phone, as well as Ampere servers.
