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 …
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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)
[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.
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.
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