Posts by thomasvenables 6 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jul 2023
Clegg was brought in to help Meta avoid sanctions and controls (responsibility) from the EU. He knew how the EU functioned and had a high enough profile to ensure nothing ever stuck to Meta.
Now, times have changed. EU isn't the primary threat of change, it's a president who owns and runs a direct social media competitor, who's main ally also runs a social media company.
They need to keep enough Republicans on-side to ensure that doesn't happen. And Clegg can't achieve that.
Slowroll definitely appeals to me. Tumbleweed is a little to high risk for a work machine (for me). I know I can roll back, but that's time lost and deadlines missed.
What I don't understand with all of SUSE/openSUSE distro options is where openELA / Redhat clone will fit into the cycle.
Wouldn't openELA be a more obvious migration path for leap users rather than a rolling release distribution?
What Microsoft is offering is basically what I want, nearly...
My ideal is to have a cloud based desktop that I can use as my daily Dev machine, with a different VM per contract customer to avoid any cross-pollination.
Most of my day to day tooling is either cloud or SAAS based. I don't compile code locally very often, I build CI/CD pipelines to do it.
For this same reason I'm Almost OS agnostic.
"Linux" seems to be falling behind (again) is building for this market. RH/Ubuntu/SuSE should all be offering this and optimising like crazy. Ideally undercutting Microsoft in cost.
If this comes to pass, then maybe my laptop doesn't need to cost thousands, but instead hundreds. With good monitor/keyboard instead of local CPU/GPU grunt.
CCSP is an interesting point. Obviously, it doesn't just apply to the OS, but the whole suite of systems and apps. Under the current/previous rules, I can't see how RH could refuse them... If you think of that scenario the other way round, Maybe the fact Redhat issued CCSP to Oracle was the catalyst to this change. CCSP means Oracle can sell Redhat, but not Oracle branded Redhat from the source the licence grants them. All hypothetical ofc. But it seems to chime for me.
While I agree with your analysis that the dictat came from above (IBM). I disagree that it was against clone in general. I think it was directed at one clone specifically, Oracle. IBM are in direct competition in cloud hosting with someone who is not only offering a comparable product, they are offering Their product. And undercutting their prices for it! That situation could only be allowed to continue for so long, and Rocky and co are just collateral.
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