Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Vadim Eisenberg
Eli, Will you teach anything specific to Linux or general Unix development tools ? If you will teach the general Unix, it is not really relevant to the students of the lecture the difference between Linux and Unix, so you probably can provide general Unix usage statistics to sell the students

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread boazg
worlds most powerful computer runs linux, based on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner) i like this example because it shows how nicely linux scales from a cellphone or a modem to 12K CPU supercomputer On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:56, Vadim Eisenberg

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi. Take note that ALL book readers (kendalls and the such) work on Linux. Nokia is moving to Linux. Western Digital MyBook disks use Linux. Google Data Centers are all Linux based. More to come. 2009/10/31 Vadim Eisenberg vadim.eisenb...@gmail.com: Eli, Will you teach anything specific to

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:51:37AM +0200, guy keren wrote: linksys wireless routers are linux-based machines. Some of them. Some aren't. E.g. WRT54G (later versions) vs. WRT54GL -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Amichai Rotman
Partner's (Orange) ISP Router is actually based on OpenRG, which is Linux: http://www.orange.net.il/isp/opensource/ .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Orr Dunkelman
In france you get from your ISP (which is also a phone provider, and cable services), a small box which does DSL + cable + phone (VoIP) + wireless router + TiVO (40 GB hard disk) + playing from USB + broadcast to the TV through power lines (ethernet over power lines). The box we had (freebox) was

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/10/30 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il: Hello, I'm working on the short talk I'm going to give on Wednesday on the W2L opening event. I'd like to give some examples of well-known uses of GNU/Linux. Does anyone have information, or even better, pointers to credible sources of such