ITT: tech companies that have genuinely impressed you and why.

>>59394920
yeah, true that. That's why I ditched my radeon 9000 and switched to nvidia -- official drivers.

>>59394920
Mac is based on FreeBSD. It is a hop and a skip to release for both platforms.

baka. You are easily impressed.

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>>59394920

Microsoft sir. Me love Microsoft. They give me certificate and give me job in Call Center.

>>59394920
Google is quite impressive.

>>59397630
macOS (formerly Mac OS X) is a mix of Next (which is derived from BSD), XNU, Mach, Darwin (which is derived from FreeBSD; of which only the process model, network stack and VFS remain), and Apple code - it's untrue to say that it's based on FreeBSD.

>>59394920
wtf i love nvidia now

>>59394920
Kinda a random answer but: Riverbed. I put in their WAN accelerators like 7 years ago and they still hum along perfectly. They are really high quality solid tech. Shames theres less need for them these days.

In the world of enterprise products you get used to disappointment so this was surprising to me.

>>59399229
>WAN accelerator
u wot

>>59397630
there are no mac pascal drivers senpai

REKT

Making any driver, or software, or ANYTHING, for BSD is completely pointless due to:

-No BSD shit will ever own any hardware made in the last 15 years.

-Even if said BSD shit does, he wouldn't install any driver or software since he would immediately flag it as being insecure without even using it, he knows this since it isn't 40 years old and doesn't do nothing.

-Most BSD shits have no need for graphics drivers at all since they just masturbate in the terminal.

nvidia probably made the modern bsd drivers for platform deployment in things like nintendo switch (runs freebsd)

Because freebsd kernel runs in a lot of consoles and applicants that need a GPU

>>59399698
then why would they also have excellent 3D linux and solaris drivers

Ubiquiti.

They make some of the cheapest, best performing shit I've ever had to deploy. I won't go into what products I like as there are too many but just google them and have a look. So fucking good.

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>>59394920
>Nvidia

>>59394920
Native Instruments

Love most of their hardware and software

>>59394920
>sleeping over a bunch of overheating machines
lol

>>59399266
I put in their WAN accelerators like 7 years ago and they hum along perfectly.

Apple
/g/ told me it was terrible but it's actually quite nice in general, especially their service and support. They still read from a script but they're English-speaking Americans and if you tell them in plain English that you've already done troubleshooting steps 1 through 100, they'll treat you like an actual human being and skip right to whatever the next step might be, unlike those Indian call center types who force you to turn it off and on again, etc.

Hardware's nice quality, looks great, functions great, works together well... very few issues

I know I'll just get memed with teenagers posting iToddler xD but it's da troof do

>>59402989
Apple is actually fairly good. I've bought numerous products from them in the past and I've never had any issues with them, other than part of my iPad screen dying, which was under warranty and they had a new one shipped in three days.

They actually do a fairly good job with quality checking, something that's rare in each companies now a days

>>59394920
It's for rendering clusters

>>59399266
>WAN accelerators
It's enterprise-speak for a firewall appliance w/ QoS, SPI, etc., all your basic traffic shaping kit. It prevents the idiot lusers from clogging up the tubes with Spotify. It's what you buy when you have a lot of $$$ but not enough sense to hire a sysadmin that can stand up a pfSense box.

Nice picture!

>>59394920
Remember in like 99 getting a Riva TNT and thinking "wow, this might catch on, wonder if I should buy stock or something?" live and learn, even MS would've been a good idea back then...

>>59397630
only half true
50% mach 50% freebsd

>>59403149
Soooooo, that sounds nice but isnt true at all.

What you do is place an accelerator at multiple sites behind your site-to-site vpns. When you move data between sites, the accelerator applies compression and packet-level deduplication, which is re-expanded by the other one. (And there are lots of extra tricks they do too to improve latency, etc. on an application- specific basis.) Your effective speed between those sites increases 3-10 times depending on the compressibility of the data. It can save a ton on circuits and enable things like serverless branch offices that dont suck.

>>59394920
>And even today, despite freeBSD's dwindling market share
FreeBSD is more popular than ever tho

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Better-FreeBSD
https://www.freebsdnews.com/2015/07/01/intel-system-studio-2016-freebsd-beta/
https://www.freebsdnews.com/2016/12/29/freebsd-foundation-announces-uranium-level-donation/

The project was almost dead in the early the 2000s

>>59394920
they're not doing that because they love BSD special snowflakes

They're doing it because there is a business incentive to support that OS for whatever contracts bring them in money

GPUs are used for more than games

>>59396180
are we in 2003?

>>59403573
Enjoy playing NFS 2 SE and Carmageddon with the software render faggot.

>>59408864
>he doesn't know 3D AMD graphics drivers are absolute garbage
top kek

>>59408924
for GNU/POSIX OSes i mean. windows' are okay

>>59399229
yeah we have steelheads at our sites and turning on smb2 freed a third of our MPLS capacity

only problem is that increase in ISP speeds has exceeded max throughput and they kick into bypass :(

>>59400615
we deploy with their wireless APs, good stuff

>>59394920
For me it's asrock. Their designs aren't the best but they know how to makes great quality mobos. They love challenges like they pulled the mini itx x99e which is a incredible piece. They lost and still losing so much from producing this board but they don't care. Also they're gonna release soon a mini itx that have a mxm 3.0b slot instead of a pcie which is good news.

>>59394920
>It's obviously not a very cost efficient thing for nvidia to do

It obviously is if they're doing it. If it required "huge resources," there would be no proprietary Nvidia FreeBSD drivers. Linux and FreeBSD are pretty similar.

Deutsche telekom. 768kbps dsl in a rural village circa 2001 and all the movies warez mp3s and porn i could download, prolly why gema is so strict. Came from 28.8 dialup in upstate ny

>>59411213
so you don't believe this guy either? >>59411174

>>59408737
so are you guys saying if I ever wanted to get into something like CUDA or even OpenCL then would FreeBSD work better than Linux? reason I ask is because I've been using Linux for over 10yrs, Seems like one of the main complaints is for drivers of nvida and amd, so far I havent had to deal with that because I use Intel HD because it suits my needs. But I was thinking about getting into GPGPU but I dont want to have to program on windows.

>>59411174
>assrock
>ever
>>/out/

>>59411365
there's no complaints about nvidia under linux, only AMD. nvidia's linux drivers have the same 3D performance as their windows ones.

>>59411379
Go back to /v/ rgb rog asus faggot

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does Boston Dynamics count? they're fucking decades ahead of the competition. Every time they come out with a new video I have to reevaluate what I think is possible with current technology in robotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

>>59402989
This is true for Personal, possibly commercial, but fuck me if their education support team and system isn't a steaming pile of shit. I've been working at a Mac high school in Australia for a year, and I've been the guy to log each warranty job, and this is the bullshit that I've had to deal with (on top of being the only real tech support for a school of 1600+ students)

>start of 2016, email SN, Issue, Troubleshooting to the education support email
>2-3 days later get a reply, with Repair ID, tech comes out in about a week
>2/5 of the jobs never get a reply so I have to call up, half the time they find the email and log it (After I NATO the fuck out of the serial because they're pajeet and I'm ausfag)
>Midway through 2016 they email me asking me to call before emailing
>idontneedthis.iso
>Call the number they give me
>6 minutes on hold
>"Please tell me what is the Serial Number"
>tell them
>put on hold while they action it
>repeat for 4 more jobs
>do this a few more times
>one time hold was 40 minutes
>email them and explain that I just don't have time to sit on hold, and there isn't really a reason that we shouldn't email jobs thorugh
>okay
>go back to emailing for a few months
>more and more jobs stop getting replies
>call them, can't find the email
>call like an hour after emailing, still can't find it
I should mention that we email them through our ticketing system, so any member of the IT Team can see how things are going if someone isn't there
>End of 2016, entire year levels machines are going out of warranty in the first week of Jan 2017, which is the middle of school holidays
>Log a fuck load of those machines, figure a tech will come out when I'm back from my break and fix them
1/2

Doesn't matter since there are no Nvidia drivers for OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonFlyBSD.

>>59411667
2/2
I take a 2 week break, kids still have 2 weeks afer I get back
>No replies from Apple
>Call, they can't find ANY emails (logged about 20)
>Have to NATO each SN out, and deal with "I will need to check with my manager as this is out of warranty"
>I've mentioned to them last year everytime I call for one of these (cant find email) and they told me they'll pass it on, manager not available when I'm calling
>Never hear from manager
>Starting to lost my shit, emailing whoever I can think of
>Local apple repair person
>head of apple education oceania
>even tim fucking cook
>basically say this is stupid, kids shouldn't be punished (by not getting their fucked machines fixed because Apple didn'tget emails), we are proud to supply apple laptops to our kids but this is unacceptable
>Manager calls me
>I see you emailed Tim Cook
>Explain issue to him
>yes our emails send to literally everyone else
>no I'm not sending it to the wrong email
>Just sits there telling me I'm wrong basically

We ended up just wasting time logging from our personal emails, copying into tickets, and calling.

HOWEVER
>get email from Oceania guy
>You're eligible for GSX, you can log jobs direectly
I've been setting that up the last few weeks, but no more call center bullshit

>>59411700
they can't cover every piece of hipster garbage otherwise they'd be writing drivers for temple OS too.

>>59411762
The thing is, you're lying. If Nvidia video cards were open-source, anyone would be able to port or write a driver for an OS.

>>59411774
maybe, but they wouldn't be good drivers. hell, AMD can't even write good 3D drivers for linux, what makes you think NEETs could do it?

>>59411667
>>59411710
I spent four days in an Australian school's tech centre about a year into their transition to macs. It was all kinds of a pain in the ass.

>>59394920
>And even today, despite freeBSD's dwindling market share
FreeBSD is on the rise m8, companies are ditching Linux's bloat.

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>not working at a pajeet shit posting temp job.

>>59402989
Apple is quite good, I've spent ten times what I would normally spend for an iPhone, and got exactly the same capabilities as a phone that came out 3 years ago. But at least I get to have their mandatory updates that make my phone slower so that I'll buy their next pile of shit. I have Stockholm syndrome!

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