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by chr15p 6y ago
I'm guessing you're talking about Red Hat stopping breaking out its kernel patches individually about 10 years ago? That was to make it harder for Oracle to offer support for OEL, but made no difference to Centos & the non-com
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by chr15p 6y ago
> Red Hat bought CentOS, presumably with real $$$, if I remember right technically centos didn't really exist as an entity that could be bought, Red Hat just hired all the developers (there were only ever 3-4 people working on cent
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by chr15p 7y ago
The British Library also has a set of audio clips of computer pioneers from the UK including several with Steve Furber (co-inventor of ARM). https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/themes/designing-and-pro...
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by chr15p 7y ago
"instant-speed trans-Atlantic communication" started with the laying of the first trans-atlantic telegraph cables in the 1860's, and allowed machine to machine communications, messaging, shopping, there are even cases of peop
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ARM 2020 predictions report [pdf](arm.com)
2 points by chr15p 7y ago|0 comments
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by chr15p 7y ago
> It's still a bit immature in terms of comparison to Chef's server offering (Ansible Tower is pretty useless) Meh, I really like Tower, but maybe that depends on what you're used to. > It's not code, so if you wan
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by chr15p 7y ago
THey have slightly different sweet spots, puppet is really good for fixing configuration drift, run it every 30 mins and you know the server will always be in the state you expect. Ansible tends to be better for jobs you do when a sysadmin
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by chr15p 7y ago
IBM was profitable but stagnating, they were already a major reseller of Red Hat, who were growing rapidly, had good tech, lots of potential to grow more, and was already big enough that they may be able to change IBMs numbers by enough to
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by chr15p 7y ago
mainframes can run rhel vms which are basically standard rhel installs that you assign RAM/CPU/storage to, with the benefits of mainframe hardware (eg. massive I/O bandwidth) so you can be happy with your mainframe because
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by chr15p 7y ago
kinda, I mean, IBM consulting have been happy to move customers off legacy IBM/AIX/DB2 onto Dell kit running Oracle on windows for decades now if thats what the customer wanted and was prepared to pay, precisely because its better
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by chr15p 7y ago
Other way round, IBM are hoping that a lot of their customers who aren't already big Red Hat customers can be converted to using RHEL and (especially) Openshift. They already have all the sales and delivery relationships in place that
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by chr15p 7y ago
They've just spent $34billion for what is essentially a culture and a customer base (all the software is open source, and the building are leased), so yes they absolutely can do whatever they want but burning it all to the ground is go
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by chr15p 7y ago
34billion is a lot of money to mess around with so hopefully they will at least thing twice before trying anything too dramatic, plus Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat CEO) is going to be reporting directly in to Ginni Rometty (IBM CEO) which should
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by chr15p 8y ago
This is a whole series of clips from much longer interviews including snippets about working with Alan Turing on the Manchester Mk1, and Tony Hoare talking about the invention of Quicksort The full interviews are part of the oral history of
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Audio archive of the British Computer industry(bl.uk)
1 points by chr15p 8y ago|1 comments
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One Linux Stack to Rule HPC and AI(nextplatform.com)
5 points by chr15p 8y ago|0 comments
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by chr15p 8y ago
On my fedora 29 box: [root@laptop ~]# which yum /usr/bin/yum [root@laptop ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/yum lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Oct 15 12:47 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3 Pretty sure "yum" in rhe
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by chr15p 8y ago
As I understand it there was a new TCP/IP stack added to the linux kernel back somewhere around 2015/2016 that couldn't be backported to the RHEL7 3.10 kernel without breaking the kernel ABI that red hat tries to only change
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by chr15p 8y ago
Also if you make hardware absolutely optomised for Lisp then all the C, FORTRAN, and Cobol (this was the 1970's!) programmers aren't particularly interested because it does nothing for their code. So the Lisp machines were targeti
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by chr15p 8y ago
I have been amazed how many really good linux people will close and re-open a file in vim because they dont know how to undo. Its weird to me how people will spend weeks learning openstack or kubernetes in depth but never think "there
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by chr15p 8y ago
A normal sysadmin workflow would be, log in via ssh, poke at some log files, run a couple of commands, edit a config file, restart a service, check the logs again, logout. If you need to be ssh'd in anyway to run commands then being a
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by chr15p 8y ago
To be honest I've seen very few linux machines with emacs preinstalled, nano seems to be part of the ubuntu default install (maybe debian too?) but isn't on any fedora box I have immediate access too (it is available in the repos)
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by chr15p 8y ago
Not just its launch time but its ubiquity, vi comes installed on pretty much every linux/unix machine no matter how minimal the install so if you are a sysadmin whose job involves jumping between machines a lot it makes far more sense
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by chr15p 8y ago
If you're looking for a reasonably technical (but not completely rocket science!) history of the British space programme A Vertical Empire by C. N. Hill is really good, although, as a Brit, also quite depressing as you realise what mi
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by chr15p 8y ago
> before us only a handful of new banks had been created since Metro bank, and that was the first in 125 years.. I think thats the point of this push by the Bank Of England. UK high street banking was dominated by a handful of huge, old,
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by chr15p 8y ago
> Apart from this - what is the status of the patch, is it redhat-only or is it on its way to the upstream? I had a conversation with some of the RH kernel devs a few weeks ago and from my (hazy) memory, this comes from Red Hats acquisit
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by chr15p 9y ago
> equality of opportunity is already present is it? You don't provide any argument to back this up. Legally maybe there are equal opportunities but is does society provide them? And if not should we do something to fix that? Equalit
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by chr15p 9y ago
do many people still use KDE? I never really got on with it myself. No distro seems to ship it as their default desktop any more, only as respins. Gnome seems to have pretty much won the desktop environment wars.
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by chr15p 9y ago
Open SCAP has been part of the functionality of Red Hat's Satellite Server for years, in my experience not that many people use it, but enough for it to be well tested. Its been a while since I looked at it but from memeory... 1) SCAP
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by chr15p 9y ago
Shamelessly stealing links from the discussion on https://lwn.net/Articles/738898/ https://www.avantek.co.uk/arm-server-h270-t70/ ] http://www.asacomputers.com/Cavium-ThunderX-

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