back to article RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux

Linux is everywhere. Servers, phones, laptops, and more, whether people know it or not. And it's all over our headlines lately – for good reason. Here are a few recent highlights: Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market, as our own Liam Proven quipped AlmaLinux project climbed down from being a one-to-one RHEL …

  1. nautica Silver badge
    Happy

    offered without comment...

    "It is a tale...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."--Wm Shakespeare; Macbeth

  2. PRR Silver badge
    Megaphone

    > offered without comment...

    Can't comment because I won't listen. It disturbs the dog, and my aural acuity is not good.

    I know el Reg hates to use mega-media, but.... videos on YouTube can be auto-captioned with mostly useful result. Yes, some hilarious screw-ups: 'lineman' with a Nova Scotia lilt comes out 'alignment', 'crews' is 'cruise', but mostly the sense is there. And YouTube is nearly free, they only want your soul.

    1. jgarbo
      Devil

      Well, there is no soul, so YT is free - totally - with my ad blocker.

  3. ltlnx
    Thumb Up

    More of this please!

    It's hard to find discussions (in-depth or casual) on Linux and FOSS from the perspective of IT industry reporters. I enjoyed every bit of it.

  4. 3arn0wl

    "Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?"

    They matter more than ever to people who have no desire for saas/ daas/ cloud.

  5. v13

    Not easy to watch

    The video isn't visible on AMP which is what Google Discover/News sends me to. Took forever until I realized that. Also, could you please provide a transcript? I read most of my news at a place where I can't listen to a video and so I can't easily watch this one. Plus, you get the benefit of better search engine indexing.

  6. kneedragon

    BOFH

    Interesting to see faces and hear voices after all these years.

    I can spot the PFY, but I'm not sure who is the BOFH ~

    1. katrinab Silver badge
      Windows

      Re: BOFH

      Assuming the PFY was 18 (ie just out of school) when BOFH was first published in 1995, he is now 46 years old.

      1. that one in the corner Silver badge
        Headmaster

        Re: BOFH

        School leaving age in 1995 was 16 (it was raised to that in 1972, not raised again until around 2013 - unless the PFY was schooled in Wales).

        The 1972 ads (by the opposition?) were harrowing - schoolkids about to leave being trapped by chicken wire fencing for another year!

      2. Groo The Wanderer

        Re: BOFH

        BOFH was first available as newsgroup feeds in the mid-late 80s, long before your "publication date." I _read_ them. Religiously! :)

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Do Distro's matter?

    You betcha they do.

    All this cloudy crap is nothing more than remote hosting with elastic demand on someone else's hardware.

    The key is 'someone else's hardware'.

    Not everyone wants to or can legally give their crown jewels to someone else to look after. Having viable alternatives to getting pissed on at regular intervals (when say Azure goes AWOL) is essential in my mind for business continuity. but the 'cloud is great' brainwashing is nearly complete so what I say means nowt.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Boffin

      Remote hosting with elastic demand on someone else's hardware.

      “remote hosting with elastic demand on someone else's hardwareN”

      Nice :]

    2. that one in the corner Silver badge

      Re: Do Distro's matter?

      > 'cloud is great'

      Oooh, shiny - like a Glow Cloud (All Hail).

  8. brotherkaif

    Please provide an RSS feed!

    Honestly, just discovered that you did a podcast. It's really good! Please offer an audio version on an RSS feed if possible. Also, I could have listened to a whole hour of you all. Please do consider making it a wee bit longer. It's so refreshing to hear tech discussions that are not the usual regurgitations of press releases.

    1. Groo The Wanderer

      Re: Please provide an RSS feed!

      "Please invest time and resources for my request so I can avoid acting like every other viewer or listener. I want to be CATERED to!"

  9. This post has been deleted by its author

  10. Grunchy Silver badge

    Somehow…

    And just like that, I blow $4 USD on a dodgy “Windows 7 Ultimate” “perpetual“ license via “Wholsalekeys” of Covent Garden, London.

    For my virtual machine operating within Proxmox.

    Alas, for my Mahjong dependency…

  11. Alistair
    Windows

    But where's the tea?

    Now that you guys got that kettle boiling regularly?

    I *love* the kettles you've done so far. Great idea, and so far I've found myself wanting to jump into the conversations with my own views. Kinda annoying I don't have a "Raise Hand" button on the video.

    On this one, there is the "do distros matter" question, and there are both yes and no points, and given that, I think The Reg will have a huge division amongst the commentariate.

    Keep up the great chats.

    (P.S., Orange Pekoe, long steep, dab of milk, and one sugar, please and thanks)

  12. Blackjack Silver badge

    [Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?]

    That's the kind of question that will have you chased with torches and pitchforks by anyone who ever had Internet connection problems.

    If your Os is useless if you are offline then you are at the mercy of cloud service providers and there is no mercy only profit.

  13. StLMintNewbee

    Red hat always seemed like a scam

    Tried red hat about twenty years ago. It seemed like it was developed for servers. So the fact that ibm wants to charge to see the code is not surprising. They are in it to make money. Just go elsewhere. This is the dying gasp of the monolith that once was IBM.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon

Other stories you might like