Posts by RolandM

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

Works like tariff wars ...

Up and down in the speed of Internet

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Shouldn't the price be 365$ ...

as subscription per anno: a dollar a day keeps competition away ?

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

Re: Interesting . . .

Scrollback of xfce4-term is not unlimited rather than limit to the size of buffer.

When having a really long output one can see only several dozens of lines by scroling back (with mouse or page up key). Content can be also saved to a file.

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Re: "The pluperfect subjunctive mood, a place of regrets where few happy things dwell"

Linus is a Finnish speaking Swedish as mother tongue.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

Re: Sometimes, it's the little things.

When the goal is to have outgoing ssh connections from the Windows PC Cygwin/X is an overkill and Putty just the tool of choice. It supports all essential feature of an ssh client.

In case you need some local Linux I would use VBox.

Cygwin with or with X I would avoid unless somebody points a gun to my head - I used to use Cygwin & struggle with it about 10 years ago.

Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux

Article's Fedora coverage is simply unfair

The section about Fedora is just not matching today's reality. May be that's important to add: I am living in year 2022.

First of all, using Fedora you make a deal that you are getting a distro making a mostly working compromise between providing bleeding edge content and stability. The Fedora releases in recent years I experienced as stable and just working. My choice is XFCE desktop due to a heavy allergy against Gnome/Unify etc.

Furthermore, Fedora releases come out twice a year, and each release is supported about a year. Thus, release update is mandatory once a year rather than twice.

Updating a release to a new level worked for me very well since about a decade. I did not scratch install my PC just for upgrading Fedora since years.

What is really annoying is the lack of integration in Linux desktop which shows up in such things as drag&drop or clipboard not working in many cases between different programs. Saying that that's a Linux issue and not specific to Fedora. It's simply the disadvantage against Windows and MacOS where you have "One Desktop, One User Community and One Market Fuehrer" (german: Fuehrer = english: leader).

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

There is no such a thing as "The Linux Desktop"

For me Linux desktop basically work very well. Thus, I agree with the author.

However, there is no such a thing as "The Linux Desktop". You have a choice of different solutions that deviate from each other quite much. I guess nobody we just looks at the GUI would guess from e.g. Gnome Desktop and XFCE that they have the same OS behind the frontend.

This balkanization is a blocker for both beginners and organizations who think about migration to Linux desktops.

AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out

And for Lucky Employees it's the 'Empty Bottle Song'

... that of course will be filled during the journey.