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by bclemens 1y ago
It appears to be "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture".
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by bclemens 1y ago
Of course! It's easy to forget he was a guard at one of America's most notorious concentration camps, Guantanamo Bay. It's foolish to think of him only as a Fox News personality.
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by bclemens 2y ago
They are not directly comparable. Nebula is a mesh VPN. Wireguard can be used as a building block for a mesh VPN (as it is in Tailscale), but it does not have that function organically. I have tried Tailscale / Headscale and did not fi
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by bclemens 2y ago
Also consider Nebula: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula ZeroTier does not use an OSI approved open-source license. It is under a freedom-restricting "Business Source License". Nebula is MIT licensed. Nebula i
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by bclemens 2y ago
Nope, it wouldn't have been in RHEL 10 or any of the rebuilds. CentOS Stream 10 already branched from Fedora / ELN. The closest it would have gotten is a Fedora ELN compose, and it's doubtful it would have remained undiscover
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by bclemens 3y ago
Ha, fun to see this again! Back before everything was HTTPS, it was fun to use the Browser Exploitation Framework ( https://beefproject.com ) which had a script included that did this. Though in those cases I wasn't in contro
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by bclemens 3y ago
Rocky Linux has /etc/redhat-release as well. Reason being that some software checks that file for version / compatibility information, and we want to avoid breaking it. (They should be checking /etc/os-release, but
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by bclemens 3y ago
It is not. openSUSE is a very different distro, though it does use RPM packages. SuSE Liberty Linux is, I believe: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/
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by bclemens 3y ago
The vagueness is not intentional, it's vague only because at the time it was written we hadn't decided on a particular source. For Rocky Linux, RHEL cloud instances are currently the primary source. Not every RHEL binary is GPL li
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by bclemens 3y ago
Happily surprised to see this hit the front page! If anyone is interested, I keep track of some statistics regarding Rocky Linux usage at https://rocky-stats.tiuxo.com/auto.html Note that those statistics are only really us
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by bclemens 3y ago
There's no mystery or secret about where we get sources: https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/ TLDR: UBIs and cloud instances.
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by bclemens 3y ago
We aim to be as transparent as possible. The only information that we don't share publicly is the obvious stuff (PII, sensitive infrastructure information, etc). The information regarding source access / challenges / etc is a
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by bclemens 3y ago
We have a whole blog post about exactly that, here: https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/
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by bclemens 3y ago
We thank our upstream often, in person, in social media, etc. We sponsor the Fedora Flock conference, the only opportunity to fiscally support Fedora, and will continue to do so. Same with the CentOS Connect conference. Those checks get wri
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by bclemens 3y ago
Projects have always done this, as Red Hat has always been rather litigious and it's unwise to give them any unnecessary ground for legal complaints. The common euphemism has been "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor&
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by bclemens 3y ago
This is adorable, it even shows Haneda air traffic!
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by bclemens 3y ago
Can you elaborate how the patches, bug reports, package maintenance, etc, do not benefit the "builders' community"? They all go to the same upstream. And what exactly do you mean by "builders' community", do yo
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by bclemens 3y ago
We do indeed. Adoption numbers are promising < https://rocky-stats.tiuxo.com/auto.html > but community size is enormous as well. 9071 folks on https://chat.rockylinux.org , ~300 folks on IRC, ~4100 folks on t
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by bclemens 3y ago
We participate in the Enterprise Linux community just fine. Our community members report bugs and throw patches at upstream projects, run SIGs creating value for EL, maintain Fedora and EPEL packages, etc.
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by bclemens 3y ago
For the security part at least, there are a few efforts to combine all the errata in one place, for example https://osv.dev/list?ecosystem=Rocky+Linux
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by bclemens 3y ago
What are you trying to imply here Paolo?
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by bclemens 3y ago
Rocky Linux has a large selection of live ISOs in different flavor desktop environments / etc at https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images
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by bclemens 3y ago
Alma used CloudLinux's secure boot key (among other CloudLinux infrastructure / resources) for their first few releases. Rocky Linux didn't have secure boot out the gate because we built everything from scratch, which include
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by bclemens 3y ago
To be fair we (Rocky Linux) also have codenames, but we only added them because some software bugged out if it wasn't present in /etc/os-release. And that's the only reason it's there, it's not really referred
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by bclemens 3y ago
Rocky Linux has not teamed up with SUSE. The announcement from SUSE included that CIQ is teaming up with them. CIQ != Rocky Linux. CIQ != the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. We might use whatever they come up with to make an additiona
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by bclemens 3y ago
The RESF / Rocky Linux project does not sell support contracts. That is a contract for CIQ. Any company is free to sell support services for Rocky Linux (and many do, including OpenLogic, MontaVista, CIQ, TuxCare, etc).
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by bclemens 4y ago
Not to undermine what the man did, but the title is a bit of an overstatement. What saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster was not the guy who pulled the cores out after, but luck, safety mechanisms, and failures / damage sustained
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by bclemens 4y ago
It doesn't seem misleading at all tbh. Misleading would by "liaison to the military", not "liaison in the military".
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by bclemens 4y ago
Rocky Linux has migration scripts available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate... An easy shortcut though, in case you have to hand type it out somewhere, is https:/&#x
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by bclemens 4y ago
No. Alma Linux is done by CloudLinux, and still uses their infrastructure, secure boot certificate, etc (according to their page at https://web.archive.org/web/20221208102246/https://wiki.alma... ). They

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