__/ [ John Bailo ] on Thursday 23 February 2006 01:18 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060222/ap_on_hi_te/server_sales
>>
>> <quote>
>> The numbers, released Tuesday, show the continuation of a trend
>> toward servers based on commodity, or "x86," microprocessors from
>
> Server! Server! Server!
>
> When are we going to stop hearing *Server* and start hearing /Desktop/!!!
Any desktop is also a server. Any contribution made to the server side
positively affects the desktop side. Examples:
* Why can a Linux desktop stay up for several years without requiring a
reboot?
* Why can Linux handle multitasking so admirably well?
* Why can load be balanced and distributed over multiple Linux desktops or
computational servers?
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