chr15p

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by chr15p 1y ago
google tells me "IBM gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2025 was $36.866B" Its not that someone writes that sort of stuff, its that it people read and think "yeah! give me some of that!" that makes me wor
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by chr15p 3y ago
> To save everybody's time: this is about straight white men making an OS for them and thus terrible for everybody else. That's not what the talk is about, that's one of the examples of brokenness he's talking about,
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by chr15p 3y ago
I don't think it is a pissing context between them, they can both happily exist in the same world, it just interesting to see the difference in approach and try and figure out why one seems more successful than the other. I think you&#
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by chr15p 3y ago
> Mir, Unity, now Snap. Ubuntu has a track record of wanting to go it alone. This. Also bzr. They seem to want to control their projects completely and so even when they have good tech they lose out to more open, community developed, equ
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Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default(lwn.net)
409 points by chr15p 3y ago|614 comments
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by chr15p 3y ago
no. I don't think that was even a thing in the RHEL7 version I last did and the whole exam/course has changed a lot since then. I'm sure there are lots of places that still use vsftpd though (I have a vague memory that it sup
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by chr15p 3y ago
The coursebook I got as part of the training course, this was 5+ years ago so we got a physical book. I've no idea what they do these days but there's a list of exam objectives on the red hat website and that basically covers wha
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by chr15p 3y ago
To me there are a few benefits of doing exams (at least the Red Hat ones that are not cheap, but well respected): 1) it looks good on the resume, which can help you get past the initial sift by people who dont understand what your experienc
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by chr15p 3y ago
To be honest if the worst thing you can say about a company is they changed the distribution model of the thing they were giving you for free from point releases to rolling updates then they could be a lot worse.
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by chr15p 4y ago
But to selectively quote from slightly further down TFA: > Krishna’s strategy has been focused on bolstering the company’s offerings in hybrid cloud — providing services to customers that run their own data centers in some combination wi
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by chr15p 4y ago
For Oct-Dec 2022 (according to https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q22-Earnings-Chart... ) Mainframes: $4.5 billion Consulting: $4.8 billion (even after selling off Kyndral) Software: $7.3 billion Softwa
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by chr15p 4y ago
To make written English you need to take 1 part Old (Anglo-Saxon) German, 1 part old Norse, and 1 part old French, stir together for a couple of centuries, then, just as its going though a major pronunciation shift have its spelling formali
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by chr15p 4y ago
that was a discussion of a previous blog post by the same author (Mathew Garrett). Its on the same subject but this one is much longer and goes into much more detail.
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by chr15p 4y ago
Its not impossible, but it needs someone to figure out how to monetize desktop linux so they can then put the marketing effort in and pay a few companies to port big name apps such as photoshop that would give it some momentum and mindshare
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by chr15p 4y ago
a million nodes running a single application is scale, but a thousand nodes running a thousand applications is also scale, and they are very different beasts. The FAANGs operate the first kind, k8s is mostly aimed at the second kind scale,
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by chr15p 4y ago
A kernel module doesn't have to match the kernel version, it has to be able to resolve all the symbols (function calls, variables etc) it uses into valid symbols supplied by the kernel you are loading on. The greater the difference bet
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by chr15p 4y ago
# CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK is not set CONFIG_LSM="lockdown,yama,integrity,selinux,bpf" on kernel 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.aarch64 So not on ARM at least
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by chr15p 4y ago
Ansible and tmux require a lot more knowledge to be effective with than cockpit does, if you have that knowledge great, but if you have fairly low (linux) skilled first line support or junior sysadmins then giving them a gui lets them solve
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by chr15p 4y ago
sesearch -A That shows the list of what labels are allowed to do what to which labels, so run ps -Z to get the label of your process and grep the sesearch output for it, and that will tell you what labels it's allowed to interact with
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by chr15p 4y ago
sesearch lets you query the rules on a system. sesearch -A will show you every thing that is allowed, and gives you (a lot of) lines like: allow httpd_t httpd_t:dir { getattr ioctl lock open read search }; Which says that things (i.e. proce
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by chr15p 4y ago
AppArmour assumes everything is allowed unless it is explicitly denied by policy, SELinux assumes everything is banned unless it is allowed by policy. This makes SELinux fundamentally more secure because unlike apparmour you cant forget to
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by chr15p 4y ago
Seconded (thirded? fourthed?) I'd also add the Information Age gallery at the Science Museum in London, which covers from the telegraph to Arm and the modern day, its aimed at a more mainstream audience than Bletchley but is free and w
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by chr15p 5y ago
Advent Of Computing podcast ( https://adventofcomputing.com/ ) did an episode about this which is worth a listen Its episode 57 or is on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLI5AKoyjMM
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by chr15p 5y ago
top500.org for June 1994 lists 79 entries for Thinking Machines which is their high water mark, but it looks like most of those are CM-5s with about 20 being CM-2. So assuming some of the CM-5s are replacements for CM-1 and 2s I would expec
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by chr15p 5y ago
mainframes have hardware designed for very high IO speeds, they have no real advantage in cpu speed, but they can keep it fed with data far better than x86 servers which is what you want if you are reading millions of records off disk doin
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by chr15p 5y ago
> The chip business looks promising. Maybe IBM should double down there? I always thought IBM should have bought ARM, the combination of IBM chip tech plus ARMs designs and Red Hat for the software stack would make for an amazing tech bu
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by chr15p 5y ago
I enjoyed the "Fedora is being outsourced to Microsoft and AWS" line, turns out they mean Fedora uses github and aws. The "layoffs" link implies layoffs at Red Hat but the linked story talks about layoffs at microsoft(
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by chr15p 6y ago
That was Jon Masters who led the technical Spectre/Meltdown response for Red Hat, and was talking about porting it to SPARC, and Itanium, and maybe others as well https://oxide.computer/podcast/on-the-metal-8-jon-m
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by chr15p 6y ago
Before the 1204 sacking it was controlled by Greek speaking Eastern Orthodox christianity and afterwards it was rued by western catholic christians with a Latin mass and a pretty fundamentally different culture. Its known as the Latin Empi
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by chr15p 6y ago
if you have 100 machines you need to install 100 new OS's which just by itself is a bunch of work. The actual install of linux is generally pretty straight forward but to do it minimum downtime you need spare boxes to build with the ne

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