Posts by vgrig_us 153 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2011
2. Because Linus likes convenience of having Greg as maintainer too much.
3. Forking kernel won't help - just ask Android guys. Forking full os will and devuan did just that.
Problem is hyperscalers are running the show and they like systemd for programmability - no one cares about stability much: so one container out of 1000 will hang, so what?
And other users? One that actually got Linux there it is now? Fought to get it in corporate environment? No one gives a shit about them.
Bullshit, Greg, and you know it. if it was that easy, devuan wouldn't take two years to do (with some fake systemd binaries still needed to run).
What about hardcoded dependancies in udev? How many things I have to replace to jus get rid of systemd?
The amount of damage you've done with your support for systemd is only comparable to amount of great work you've done in kernel (USB, kernel releases, etc.), Greg!
Why don't you take a little break, go build another wooden canoe or something and think clearly about things.
It's a lot more than "just existing" - it's about apple screwing over repeatedly every business that ever relied on macos hardware/software. Once you account for that, this new cheese grader attempt is nothing but trash worthy.
Examples why one should never rely on apple in business: xserve, macos server, old Mac pros, trashcan Mac pros, final cut - that's just from my own experience.
Wait, what? You must've dealt with some really crappy hardware raid - my sympathies.
I've pulled a raid 1 drive out of controller raid and booted another server with it many times... In fact - that one of the methods to install two node cluster I used to use.
Nowadays it's easier to v2p from vm image or use proper deployment tools (bad for one's geek street cred, I think).
It's just sign of experienced ops guy - the only thing that surprises us is "everything just worked".
Yeah, raid controller suppose to handle foreign config, but what if battery backup on fried one didn't work? What if the heat demaged drives? What if drive fw had a bug that only showed up on new controller?
All of that happened to me, resulting in complete reinstall (I f@#$g hate exchange!).
To all of you who don't think rng bug is scary - how many applications use cpu rng only? Do you know? VPN clients? And amd keeping this bug quiet, notifying users only buy email, no posts on their website (as far as I know)?
I get all that cheering for underdog, but rng returning all ffff... getting past qa means no amd CPUs for me in near future. This slappy beyond believe - can't believe all of you just shrugging it off!
I consider what companies like elastic, mongodb and redis are doing to it's licenses a douchification of open source...
You knew the deal when you picked an open source license (and in case of elastic a less restrictive Apache that doesn't even require giving code back upstream), you've got vc money because of it (cause vcs don't understand much and just went with the open source hype at the time) and now you're screwing everybody with changing it? No sympathy for you in my book. Your own elastic cloud runs on linux, I assume - what if kernel devs change license on that?
@Steve Davies 3
Good try. Too bad for you that Android has been merged upstream - just Google (or bring?) "Android merged back into main Linux tree".
It wasn't Google holding back - kernel guys weren't happy with quality of code: specifically how it handled different architectures I think, like arm...
"Most Linux is on embedded stuff, servers and some ereaders (some strangely use Android even though Android apps and GUI is unsuitable for eink). Not so many laptops."
Huh? I haven't had a Windows or macos running on bare metal at home in over 5 years, my work desktops have been Linux for over 15. I know I'm a minority, but not that small of the minority...
5g access points and radio infrastructure is not why Cisco is one of the main companies behind the push to ban Huawei - is wired service provider infrastructure (switches, routers), servers (Cisco sells usc), storage (Cisco unified switches are part of many vendor's storage offerings), Enterprise switches, routers and wifi.
5g is talked about because it's mo visible and overhyped.
Huawei is killing Cisco's business in every country that can't afford, say, Arista.
"GPL2 relies entirely on copyright law to work."
No, it's not. It relies on license as a contract. At least according to everyone from fsf...
Copyright covers individual code contribution - each coder retains his/hers copyright. If copyright is complete abolished tomorrow, gpl will be just fine.
I was arguing "passwords visible", not general security challenges (as SSL certs are). And Linux ldap client has been kerberized since forever. Even Linux services (including telnet - lol) been kerberized since rhel5.
So, yeah, ldap is more secure with kerberos, obviously. And that how everyone is "doing it". Including windows ad (that includes distributing trusted cert, btw).
What?! By "something" you mean root or openldap user on a server running ldap? It's been a while, but I think "simple bind authentication" doesn't need password to be readable. Google it if you like - I'm too lazy to pull old config and openldap mailing list thread. Something about ACL for password attribute.
Again - simple bind can be done securely with SSL.
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