Posts by LJFox

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

It would be interesting to see if a joint effort from MSFT and Oracle could tip the scales.

I wonder, admittedly naively and maybe stupidly, if AI-focused hardware. OEMs (nvidia, AMD) could start donating Engineering time to influence current flow of kernel and services development

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

What could possibly go wrong by releasing this to the public on the country where you can get an assault rifle on the dollar store?

NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers

Eye opening report

This report will be an eye opener for threat actors who hadn't considered NASA as a potential target.

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

Re: Style is optional

100% agree on the enticing windows (and mac) users to jump to a lightweight, reliable OS when their kit starts to show its age.

"Stylish" and "appealing" are probably not on the maintainers list of priorities, but are definitely a key point to the standard home user who just wants to turn it on and intuitively get to their Web browser of choice and maybe, just maybe, an email client.

Alas those of us helping with transitions can spend those extra 20 minutes setting it up for them.

Icon in honour of the penguin headers. I don't see myself as one of them, but I contemplate them from afar.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Re: Proof Of Concept Business

"efficient code should be a goal, not something that other people do by buying faster hardware"

You just earned yourself a pint on me. I will tattoo this line on many code monkeys' forehead so they can read it every time they look at the mirror.

Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight!

The manager saw unwise to trim

On the 12th day of the Rackspace email disaster, it did not give to me …

Oh but it is so much cheaper. You reduce operations and support overhead, you see?