seenitall

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by seenitall 8y ago
I know the data for one large cloud. There’s more Ubuntu than all the others put together, by some distance. Don’t see why it would be different on the other public clouds. They do a lot behind the scenes to make it work really well on each
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by seenitall 8y ago
In the end it was a tie in the Debian technical committee. The chairman’s vote was counted twice so systemd won. Then the people who had voted for systemd resigned rather than actually implement their choice.
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by seenitall 8y ago
Yup
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by seenitall 8y ago
Evidence? I don’t think that’s the case. There are plenty of non-commercial snaps with system access, it’s really a question of the nature of the snap. You would want something like Puppet to be able to read and write files all over the sys
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by seenitall 8y ago
The comment is mistaken. I suspect it’s being downvoted not because update control isn’t appreciated, but because it’s very much there with snaps. There are several ways to disable snap updates, and they are really quite nicely balanced for
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Minimal Ubuntu – how small can it go?(blog.ubuntu.com)
45 points by seenitall 8y ago|20 comments
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by seenitall 10y ago
Ubuntu used to add a kernel to the LTS from each subsequent release, but they were separate packages. Now there will be just one HWE package that will roll until the subsequent LTS.
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by seenitall 10y ago
No, just doing updates gets you all the benefits of the point release, as you would expect. If you want a newer kernel, install the hwe kernel when it appears, it will roll until the next LTS and stabilise then in line with 18.04 (it is bas
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by seenitall 10y ago
Sensible move, though I hope it's not too disruptive for Fleet users. Don't think they have any option though. The list of easy ways to try K8s should include conjure-up on Ubuntu for either laptop-scale or large cloud/Vmware
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by seenitall 10y ago
Snaps can now export libraries, so you can get a shared Qt framework for example if you don't want to bundle that. Up to you how much you trust the library snap publisher not to break you.
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by seenitall 10y ago
Snaps can be 'strictly confined' which means all their reading and writing happens in a limited set of directories exclusively for their use. So 'snap remove' cleans everything up perfectly. Ask your upstream for a stric
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by seenitall 10y ago
Exactly. Snaps grew out of the work to make Ubuntu mobile phone apps secure and easy to update. They are a great way to publish software, worth creating regardless of all the anti-canonical trolling. And they work fine across distros except