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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

I run all sorts of commercial software. Linux for instance. There's billions of dollars every day that are spent on the tools that we get for free. Without commercial backing, the Linux kernel would be many, many years behind where it is today. Without commercial backing, projects like x264 and FFmpeg/Mplayer wouldn't be the same. Gnome, KDE, webkit, OpenOffice... it's all financed. Don't confuse personally handing over cash for not being 'commercial'. The core of FOSS and professional tools are driven heavily by their return.

I'm not generally a fan of social networking and stuff, but this post makes me wish for a 'like' button somewhere

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jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 262

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

Speaking of commercial software, have anybody gotten SAS -- the statistical software -- running on Arch? I am not allowed to use R this semester

Yeah, I've been running 32-bit SAS/Unix on Arch 64 for a couple of years now.  No problems once I got all the 32-bit libraries installed.  The only reason I'm running the 32-bit version is that it just happened to be what my license was for.

Jay

dakt

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 67

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

No, not a single commercial software or any binary blob that I'm aware of...

Which BIOS do you use?

Maybe he's using coreboot???

Last edited by dakt (2010-10-04 08:42:48)

mir

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Registered: 2010-08-25

Posts: 59

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

I bought (and use) bibble5.

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

No, not a single commercial software or any binary blob that I'm aware of...

Which BIOS do you use?

Maybe he's using coreboot???

BIOS doesn't get installed on Linux (maybe updated on some), parsed by the kernel - yes

dakt

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 67

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

Which BIOS do you use?

Maybe he's using coreboot???

BIOS doesn't get installed on Linux (maybe updated on some), parsed by the kernel - yes

How on earth did you conclude that from what I wrote? Trust me, I know the difference between the ROM firmware (in this case BIOS) and the operating system.
And, AFAIK, linux kernel doesn't parse BIOS, in fact it was separated from BIOS long time ago. However GRUB does rely on BIOS's services like INT13h...it setups environment  (jump to p-mode) and jumps to kernel code.

shemz

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Registered: 2010-04-23

Posts: 135

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

Mainly matlab for now. But will soon give it up in favor of python + numpy as I use matlab only for numerical calculations and simulations, which I believe numpy + scipy can handle equally well. There are other commercial software I run which are either only for windows or I do not have their linux licenses, but that is within virtualization env on linux, for which I use vmware player, another commercial blob. After all productivity comes first.

Pank

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From: IT

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 371

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

Yeah, I've been running 32-bit SAS/Unix on Arch 64 for a couple of years now.  No problems once I got all the 32-bit libraries installed.  The only reason I'm running the 32-bit version is that it just happened to be what my license was for.

Hi Jay,
As I do not want to pollute this topic I invite you to contribute to this topic.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

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Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

@dakt
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what about ACPI tables ?

And I was just simply answering about BIOS being a binary blob and the topic of this thread. 
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dakt

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 67

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

what about ACPI tables ?

Well...you got me.
But...these tables can be stored anywhere (grub-acpi). I'll end up here since ACPI is huge crappy standard (of course since MS was involved) for which I'll never have any will to deal with.

Anyway, I run Matlab and Maya(not AutoDesk but Alias).

shak

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

I only use matlab for my university

Nichollan

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From: Stavanger, Norway

Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 110

Re: Do You Run Commercial Software on Linux?

If not profitable, I suspect the BSDs are a more friendly platform for commercial software as they strive for binary compatibility and try to avoid copyleft licenses.