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by awill 6y ago
that's a strange thing to say. Sure it's great for in-progress projects to get visibility, but as a ready/user, it will waste my time if I just want something that's ready/usable right now, and end up trying a bunch
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by awill 6y ago
Me too. But my decades old steam collection isn't looking forward to it. That's one advantage of cloud gaming. It won't matter what your desktop runs on.
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by awill 6y ago
I understand your frustration, but anyone who's run (or been on) a dev team knows you have a million things you could/should be doing, and many, many priorities. Often supporting new launches/features is the priority. Sure, i
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by awill 6y ago
There is also a huge range of hardware/software. Different kernels, drivers, AMD vs Nvidia, Wayland vs XOrg. A lot more Linux users are moving to AMD GPU, so when I see platinum, I assume at least great support on AMD.
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by awill 6y ago
This all sounds great, but I suspect this will be VERY expensive.
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by awill 6y ago
"Solutions such as Kubernetes tout the benefits of zero-downtime deployments but ignore that their inherent complexity causes availability issues." This is completely accurate. I've seen several teams do kubernetes, only to b
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by awill 6y ago
Succeeding here might require both. Did they expect to make money instantly without massive investment? Seems very shortsighted.
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by awill 6y ago
Bingo. Ads making so much money has destroyed Google, because they can make mistake after mistake and still be profitable. Most companies think this is good, but it's actually a curse. When decisions don't have consequences, peopl
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by awill 6y ago
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by awill 6y ago
A bit part of this is Apple's best intel laptop (the 16") is still on a 9th gen intel. So comparing a 2020 m1 on 5nm vs a 14nm 2018 chip isn't fair. It's real if you're an apple user, and upgrade from a 16" MBP
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by awill 6y ago
PfSense Plus will be included free if buying netgate hardware. That's what most vendors will use for customers. However, I consulted with some businesses that were very strapped for cash in the past, and I used some old hardware with i
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PfSense Plus announced, diverging further from pfSense open source edition(netgate.com)
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by awill 6y ago
Agreed. But Rocky is supposed to launch before CentOS 8 is EOL. There should be time to wait and migrate.
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by awill 6y ago
I think you're digging in the wrong place, and focusing on the label. This shouldn't be kicking fedora down. It has a place, as does stream. The point is that with CentOS you expect a super stable release. Red Hat replaced that wi
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by awill 6y ago
First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS. Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probabl
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by awill 6y ago
I've run intel/nvidia with Arch Linux for the last 14 years. I upgraded recently from an intel/nvidia setup (GTX 1070) to a zen3 w/ a Radeon 6800. Honestly, both nvidia and AMD have excellent support on Linux. Both hardw
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by awill 6y ago
I understand that Dropbox feels they need to add features to compete, especially as they compete with Google and OneDrive, which both bundle a bunch of extra free stuff. But that should never be at the cost of your core product. Dropbox pur
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by awill 6y ago
Both evernote and dropbox started making the free service worse by limiting how many devices you could connect. Dropbox also dropped support for xfs filesystems on Linux (which they later brought back, but not after infuriating Linux users)
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by awill 6y ago
What's the root of the problem here? In other words, why has an important usability bug been ignored for years? Is the problem that Gnome is mostly funded by Redhat, and Redhat mostly focuses on enterprise usecases, as that's how
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by awill 6y ago
but is perfect enforcement even possible? If it isn't, does that mean companies shouldn't bother enforcing at all? I agree, it's a very complicated issue, and there will be repercussions, but that shouldn't stop a compan
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by awill 6y ago
To paraphase Churchill, Gnome is the worst DE, except for all the others. I don't particularly love Gnome, but it's still what I use, as I don't really like any of the others more. Gnome Shell has a lot of javascript, which m
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by awill 6y ago
I guess we found Richard Stallman's hacker news account.
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by awill 6y ago
So Red Hat is promising a possible migration path for CentOS 8 users to some limited, restricted form of RHEL next year, but not announcing it yet? So they deprecate a product, and expect people to wait for an announcement that may or may n
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by awill 6y ago
That's not what I meant. Sure, underneath it shared tech. But when people think of Gentoo, they think 'build from source' and get every kernel dot release etc.. ChromeOS isn't related in that sense.
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by awill 6y ago
ChromeOS isn't based on Gentoo at all. They might share some underlying code. But they're not related at all.
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by awill 6y ago
This is a little like IBM acquiring Red Hat. I wonder if Google will just kill Neverware, similar to what IBM did to CentOS
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by awill 6y ago
when I hear 'software craftsman' I assume it's a regular software engineer who wants to elevate their status.
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by awill 6y ago
No it doesn't. Support your stuff until you have a replacement.
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by awill 6y ago
If there truly is a free RHEL release for certain use cases being announced in H1 2021, there's absolutely no excuse not to announce it now. You've terrified a LOT of people. Giving a 'well maybe next year we'll announce
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by awill 6y ago
This is awful. It's proof of the downsides to the IBM acquisition, which I think we all knew was coming. Imagine if you were running a business, and deployed CentOS 8 based on the 10 year lifespan promise. You're totally screwed n

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