What is being self-hosting? I haven’t seen MPI used outside of software running on a compute cluster.

One of the points of the cluster was to celebrate Apple’s founding, and the bundled MPI library just let them run an existing workload without switching the OS to Linux.

This is so cool. The MacMini really is a great, little form factor.

Interesting decision to take off the bottom of the case. I wonder if that was for cool or hardware access.

Possibly, I’m not sure how well old MacBooks dissipate heat without the top being open.

Aside from that, get a Ethernet adapter and installing Linux is the place to start. 🙂

And Android should have been moved to a foundation to be come a community project outside of Google.

It’s too bad GrapheneOS is so hellbent on pushing Android because this would be a great time to promote work on an Linux mobile distro, like PostmarketOS.

Especially Google with Android. Closing off Android is baffling. Did they not learn anything from the last 30 years?

Indeed. It seems that everyone dislikes sysv, but a small group can’t decide on what the better option is.

Between those two, I would go with regular Debian, or Mint LMDE if it has to be one of the two.

Debian is much better about providing a reasonably updated desktop experience these days.

As for Ubuntu… Their engineering is bad, and they’re shady. They push their solutions over standard stuff, and their solutions are conveniently setup to allow them to close source the code if anything ever reaches wide adoption or are proprietary from the beginning.

What was wrong with the old Boxes?

It didn’t support containers or the more advanced features of libvirtd like virt-manager does, but it seemed fine for what it was the couple of times I tried it out.

I was just thinking of the ex-gf who didn’t believe Star Wars was about Vietnam. I should add that to the list of reasons for the break up.

Never date a centrist. If they’re not a militant leftist, don’t bother kids. 😂

Not good thoughts, not good thoughts by the way. Thinking about the writing group I dropped because “that’s always been my thing”.

Yeah, “In Bruges”.

Yeah, the Fedora community revolted when RH tried to force Fedora to be what they wanted, and RH left Fedora to the community after that. 😆

Moving CentOS upstream of RHEL? That was a good thing. RHEL didn’t have a true upstream, and now that is CentOS. The RHEL and the clones now have a central place to upstream code, and they now are the EL ecosystem instead of only RHEL. It’s created more diversity and has added more options.

For example, Alma doesn’t have to be bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL. They can carry their own patches and add features which their base wants and only be binary compatible.

Canonical’s engineering is poor. They build weird stuff, and they want to close Linux off through CLA and permissive licenses. They aren’t a trust worthy company.

RH does more. RH is Linux for all intents and purposes.

Fedora is better. At one time, Ubuntu was good, but that was 20 years ago. The Fedora community has done a great job of stepping up to make it a great desktop distribution.

It’s possible to create a custom Linux ISO. That will solve the application installation problem.

Windows was trash, BeOS didn’t take off, and all the good network diagnostic tools were exclusively on *nixes in the early 2000s. Later, the *nixes are better for application development and deployment. They’re just built to serve data.

Windows has kind of caught up in the tooling department largely thanks to a VM, but it’s still trash. LOL

Idealogically, I can own my tools and modify them if needed. I don’t modify them, but hypothetically I could.

The distro doesn’t really matter. Buying more efficient hardware and running efficient software matters.

A 65w proc is going to use less electricity then a 240w proc. Native software is more efficient then running lots of web browsers.

If you really want to know how much power the desktop is using, measure. Measure the power coming out of the wall. Measure how much time the system is active, and feed that into a time series database with a something like Grafana for visualizations.

For some people, they don’t actually care about the politics of FOSS; they want a portfolio for employers.

Fair, the patches don’t have to be accepted. 🙂

Would it be bound by the GPL? Companies love writing shims, and the Linux kernel is pro-business. It is specifically GPLv2 to allow companies to use it in closed source applications. TiVo is the poster child for this.

Anything running in user space isn’t considered a derivative work. The kernel ABI specifically allows for this. A closed source application could run on top of the Linux kernel and not have to be released.

Applications linking to a GPL library, glibc excluded, would have to be released since that would constitute a derivative work.

I’m the PS6 scenario, we would probably get very little usable code. The GPL is old, and companies have had lots of time to work around it.

Companies are just taking BSD code and don’t contribute to it.

There isn’t a lot of evidence of this.

At the end they’re selecting Linux even if there’s licensing risk and they have contribute to code.

This is at odds with the first statement. Companies also aren’t contributing as much code as they should.

Also companies which want to support Linux don’t have to worry that someone would close their code or code they funded with money. It’s not about competition but collaboration.

Yeah, inertia is a thing. It’s why Windows is so dominant. The BSDs were rather competitive with Linux back in the early ‘90s - ‘00s.

This might have been a reason in the ‘90s IBM picked Linux as the Unix successor, but now it’s about inertia and a baseless OS is pretty handy.

It was also never about collaboration. It was always MAD doctrine. Each company had a pack of lawyers ready. The GPL isn’t the most battle tested.

GPL license allowed us also to sell own open-source solutions.

This isn’t the flex you think it is.

Instead of being ready to use solutions…

The BSDs are full operating systems. Batteries are included in the repo.

Linux requires adding lots of other software to make the kernel useful. When people say “It’s GNU/Linux”, this is what they mean. The Linux kernel + the GNU tools make an OS.

…they’re trying to be base for commercial closed-source products and it would be great as contributors could get something from that, but they get nothing.

They are not. They are existing as their own projects. ☺️

Most FOSS devs get nothing. 🤣 GPL, BSD, Apache… It doesn’t matter. The capitalists plunder the commons making money off of other’s hard work.

I understand that BSD see closed source as something cool and way to commercialize software,…

They really don’t. They just want to work on their projects in peace.

…but in today times where a lot of devices have 24/7 access to internet, microphones, cameras and at the same time to sensitive data it’s extremely dangerous. Closed source is used to hide backdoors, acts of surveillance and keeping monopoly on market which obviously stop evolution of software.

Ummm…. That’s not BSD specific. FOSS software gets used for this as well. All those surveillance devices are probably running some sort of Linux.

There are binary firmware blobs and all sorts of stuff. The Linux kernel is GPLv2 specifically to allow this.

The DMCA’s anti-encryption circumvention is used to chill software evolution and lock up code more than anything. BSDs only ask that people don’t GPL their stuff.

Companies play all sorts of games with code, and there isn’t a guarantee that what is in the repo is what people are running. We need reproducible builds to know the software is clean, and without that, software is not trustworthy.

This is bigger than the license on the code. This is about processes and culture.

Please tell me how BSD license can be good solution for operating system.

The code is still open, and the repos will still exist if a fork is created. Sony forks FreeBSD for PS6, and nothing happens to FreeBSD. It still exists, and it still works. The added bonus is not having to deal with Sony, or other people, trying to upstream stuff that doesn’t make sense outside of the PS environment and would have questionable value to others.

There are lots of ways companies get around the GPL, and most are GPL sanctioned.

Starting a company, use the GPL. Starting a project for fun, use whatever because the companies are going to steal it anyway if it’s good.

FreeIPA covers most scenarios. Kerberos, Dynamic DNS/DNS, LDAP.

GPO equivalency would need some config management tool. Ansible is what RH would suggest, but something with an agent would probably be better.