LinuxPlanet: Linux Makes Automation, Infrastructure Strides

“There is an interesting irony in the technology that surrounds
us. Tools that have been built by the human race are so advanced
that they are no longer able to be controlled and operated by those
same bipedal creatures with the cool opposable thumbs. One company
is introducing some new technology that will let Linux handle these
enormous and complex tasks.

“A lot of technology has become bigger than us, it seems. We
could not manually operate the thousands of different switches it
takes to establish a phone call to our Uncle Poindexter in Bippus,
Indiana. We could not manually tune the satellite dish frequencies
necessary to bring in the latest episode of Six Feet Under bouncing
off a piece of metal hundreds of miles over our head. It’s simply
too much to handle.

“None of this is news to many of us, but it is not something we
think about on a daily basis. We turn the light on and expect the
power to be there. Seldom is much thought given to how that power
gets there. Unless you work for the power company. Or the company
that designs the software running on the power company’s
computers…”

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