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Re: New WiFi adapter

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: New WiFi adapter
Date 2025-06-04 19:50 +0000
Message-ID <mabmb9F2eclU9@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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. 

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  Re: New WiFi adapter vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-06-03 03:11 +0000
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    Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 00:28 -0400
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    Re: New WiFi adapter Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-03 01:03 -0400
      Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 00:46 -0400
    Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-03 06:06 +0000
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        Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 01:14 -0400
          Re: New WiFi adapter vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-06-04 05:56 +0000
            Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 03:55 -0400
          Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 11:37 +0100
          Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-04 19:37 +0000
            Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 20:47 +0100
              Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-04 20:21 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-04 22:37 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 19:06 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-05 13:08 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-06 00:24 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-06 07:37 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-07 14:02 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-07 13:28 +0100
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                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 18:58 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-05 05:50 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-05 09:49 +0100
                Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-05 13:15 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-06 00:46 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-08 14:40 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-08 13:50 +0100
              Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 18:08 -0400
              Re: New WiFi adapter Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-06-06 18:48 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-06-06 23:08 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:39 +0100
                Re: New WiFi adapter Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-06-07 02:42 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-07 14:33 +0200
                Re: New WiFi adapter Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> - 2025-06-07 20:29 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-07 22:31 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-08 10:20 +0100
                Re: New WiFi adapter Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> - 2025-06-07 20:37 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-07 23:59 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-07 22:41 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-08 06:44 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-06-08 00:01 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-07 22:35 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-06-08 03:22 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-08 00:08 -0400
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-08 06:47 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-08 10:24 +0100
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-08 18:31 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-07 01:33 +0000
            Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 18:02 -0400
              Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-05 05:59 +0000
                Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-07 01:25 -0400
          Re: New WiFi adapter Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-06-06 18:42 +0000
      Re: New WiFi adapter "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-03 14:29 +0200
      Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 01:01 -0400
        Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-04 19:50 +0000
          Re: New WiFi adapter c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 18:54 -0400
            Re: New WiFi adapter rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-05 05:58 +0000

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