I thought so too but after meeting him I feel comfortable he is gonna take over the world slowly.
SnailMagnitude
joined 1 year ago
New to linux, think she needs a gui. I will look into UTM.
I'm not sure there is a need to run linux on bare metal, or carry around a second laptop.
Thanks, good to know it still works
Sounds good, is there a simple guide to UTM on MacOS?
Void uses runit. Small, simple and ~20yrs old.
I think we may agree that a lot of the ecosystem is dependent on Red Hat, if they close stuff even more stuff tomorrow someone else will need to step up and put in an awful lot of hours quickly. Suse are stepping up with a 10 million dollar claim in response to the current situation and Rocky and Oracle are exploring the legalities of the GPL which is entertaining.
Forking the kernel is non-trivial, a far bigger undertaking than a casual 10 million dollars from Suse. It's well over 30 million lines of code over decades with billions invested in it.
Again from Ted: * IBM hosted that meeting, but ultimately, never did contribute any developers to the btrfs effort. That’s because IBM had a fairly cold, hard examination of what their enterprise customers really wanted, and would be willing to pay $$$, and the decision was made at a corporate level (higher up than the Linux Technology Center, although I participated in the company-wide investigation) that none of OS’s that IBM supported (AIX, zOS, Linux, etc.) needed ZFS-like features,because IBM’s customers didn’t need them.*
I'm not a position to outcode IBM but I am very grateful there are distros out there that do ensure things largely work without them.
Yeah, I was using Alpine for a long time on my pi2 or 3, and an old htpc filling in as server but I've stumbled upon a few small issues with musl compatibility and feel glibc just makes life a little easier. I recall 'testing' it out using an ancient 2gb usb2 stick, it ended up running 24/7 for about 18 months just fine before I replaced the old box with new pi. With flatpak and all the other new and shiny things it makes a decent desktop/laptop OS too. They didn't seem happy at all with upstream openrc a year or two ago and think they were looking to integrate s6 instead but haven't kept an eye on the development and think skarnet is still working away on his frontend.
It's entirely possible. They could have gotten Jeff or anyone else who didn't agree with Red Hat on the show, there is not a shortage of people in the community that disagree as you say. They could have done another show to cover what 'the entire linux community' thinks about this.
For whatever reason they choose to invite on a Red Hat employee, not ask any difficult questions and generally just agree with everything he says. I don't know the Red Hat dev or the people doing the podcast but if the 'entire linux community' are not happy it's not great journalism.
"Now we've heard Red Hat's version of events, for some balance we will interview the devs of Rocky & Alma and next week we have editor of The Register on"
I've not looked at the podcast, maybe they have done this sort of thing....but if their only contribution is to get on a Red Hat employee and agree with him, I'm confortable dismissing them.
If I was IBM and my employee was going on a podcast for damage limitation, I'd want assurances those hosting would be doing exactly what they did, agreeing with company policy.
I rely on Linux, not Red Hat. In my time on linux, a decade or so, Linus has been consistently awesome and Red Hat have consistently been dicks.
If Linus starts ranting about freeloaders I will listen, but freeloader chat from IBM is less compelling.
Is it reasonable to advise someone who is new to this stuff on MacOS to just installl Ubuntu on VirtualBox?