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OpenSuse LEAP had SLES components rolled in on version 42.1, which was superseded by version 15.

LEAP has support for 36 months (major versions) and 18 months (minor releases). It's a different upgrade cycle then CentOS or RH. In RH, if you just pull from the repos, you will automatically roll from minor to minor release. This is not the case with OpenSuse. For example, 15.0 repos are distinct and separate from 15.1. In RH, both versions would be in the same repo and Yum finds the most current.

This gives you a bit more control, you have 6 months to upgrade between minor version as they are generally release every 12 months and supported for 18. You have to run a different command to upgrade the version zypper dup vs zypper up. In RH your version will increment without you noticing if your not paying attention.

IMHO, the biggest differentiator is the the Kernel Version.
RedHat's is pretty old, the newest kernel the ship is 3.10.0-957.
The SLE kernel (note the change from SLES 12 to SLE 15 - to track OpenSUSE better) is 4.12.14-23.1.

You have to go all the way back to 2014 to get a 3.12 kernel on SuSe.
I'm a big fan of SUSE, I use OpenSUSE at home and have managed some HPC systems that use SLES 11/12, but most systems I manage us RH at work.

yelling at them and telling them to "shut the fuck up" is not how you lead them

That's clear enough. Now, is there any way that Linus could have made his point about not breaking kernel interfaces, just as memorably, without saying "Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!". (By the way, Mauro is a well known and respected maintainer and educator.)

How about: "WE DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE." Indeed, not as memorable, but also not harming Linus' reputation, a net win.

Linus could surely have employed his amazing gift for language and wit to express his distress equally as clearly without crossing the line into abuse. He could have demanded that this text be added to patch submission guidelines. He could have used one of his entertaining analogies. He could have done all kinds of things besides that.

I strongly support Linus' intention to uphold a fundamental Linux design rule, but strongly disagree with how he went about it. And now it is clear the Linus agrees with that view. What other methods are available to make a point strongly and memorably? How about Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... no personal attacks there, no abuse, no cussing, and yet memorable all the same.

Switch to Linux! https://linux.com/

We no longer have a usable desktop operating system! The Windows OS is spyware. Linux as a desktop operating system has gotten worse every year, not better. Why? Those who develop Linux desktop systems insist on doing their own thing. They don't cooperate.

AMAZING QUOTE from this story of 2 years ago: The number of Linux distributions is declining. "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."

Meanwhile, out here in the real world, macOS chugs along, privacy-focused, nary a subscription plan in sight...

  285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from a Slashdot comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."

  Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.

We no longer have a usable desktop operating system! The Windows OS is spyware. Linux as a desktop operating system has gotten worse every year, not better. Why? Those who develop Linux desktop systems insist on doing their own thing. They don't cooperate.

AMAZING QUOTE from this story of 2 years ago: The number of Linux distributions is declining. "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."

285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from a Slashdot comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."

Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.

1. Does it run Linux?

2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Building a Beowulf Cluster in just 13 steps

How many cluster nodes per cm^3?

Those who arrange Linux have apparently never heard of cooperation. (What did you say? Co-what??? Is that an English word?)

This story about Linux makes me laugh: The number of Linux distributions is declining. AMAZING QUOTE from that story of 2 years ago: "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."

285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from the parent comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."

Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free. It is VERY expensive!!! VERY! If you are a teenager and like tinkering, and have nothing else to do besides play video games, the cost may be acceptable. Or maybe you are installing Linux on 50 computers. Otherwise probably not.

Windows is "spyware" and the documentation is often poor. But at least there is only 1 current version. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. It's an OS that shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you can stop the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

Could you go to prison for recommending Windows, a "spyware" OS? Oh well, there's that. You need a signed contract that the customer understands that Microsoft has control at all times. Or, you can deliver the "Enterprise" version, which Microsoft doesn't allow most customers to have; maybe that isn't spyware. Or, maybe it is: For real Windows 10 privacy, you need the China Government Edition.

But at least, with Windows, you won't be involved with the ENORMOUS complexity of Linux. One example: The Debian Family Tree. That's just one of the "family trees"! If you have a son, tell him not to make 200 women pregnant.

Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux said: "many members of the free software community are just deeply anti-social types".

That comment by Shuttleworth on Google Plus is an example of Google being insufficiently managed. It apparently isn't possible to link directly to Mark Shuttleworth's comment. It's necessary to click on "View 173 previous comments" and search for "muppets". (Wow! Google Plus is an example of people liking to use a huge amount of Javascript. Why so much Javascript? Are they teaching themselves about Javascript?)

A long time ago, at a convention, I got into a long discussion with Mark Shuttleworth. I gave him a manual I had written about dealing with the social issues of technology. The only result? Shuttleworth criticized me for giving him a paper copy. He was flying home after the convention; I

https://www.linux.com/blog/201...

Just curious.

Could one do software development and testing while offline, with one of these puppies? e.g. Can I have linux in a VM or use docker containers etc in chromeos?

No.

Yes. That one is a chroot system running under ChromeOS' Linux OS, but there are other approaches. Crouton is great as a dev environment.

Also note that ChromeOS works just fine offline as long as the Chrome apps you're using support it. Most do.

In addition, there's always the option of flipping the device to dev mode and replacing ChromeOS with whatever you like (and can get to run; many Linux and *BSD distros work fine on Chromebooks. I'm not sure you could get Windows to run and I would be amazed if you could make OS X work).

Have you tried googling?

There is quite a comprehensive documentation available from Redhat: https://access.redhat.com/docu...

Also, Archlinux has always good wiki articles, and systemd one is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...

One good introduction is on Linux.com: https://www.linux.com/learn/un...

There's no reasonable excuse not to support Linux on something like this.

Release two versions - first and up front release a Nix style package, which for all intents and purposes can be compared to a Mac .dmg file with all dependencies included. Or more accurately an APK for a desktop since they already support a version of Linux by having an Android version. With a Mac, Android, and iOS version out there already the work is done - can you say easy port?

Then for the braver types and for the distro makers release a tar.gz file with the crap in it. It doesn't matter if you release the source code or not, though of course I would prefer they did. If you make a straight up binary version someone is going to make an RPM of it and someone else is going to make a .deb - consider the work done. The nice thing about the open-source community, they'll do the work for you for free if you don't actively stop them. Look at the way nVidia drivers are handled and the way Oracle Java has distro side packages that are dedicated to downloading and installing the binaries in a way that is both easy and compliant with overbearing restrictions.

What's stopping you?

Many chromebooks can have a seasbios legacy boot mode installed without risk at all.

Check this out, for instance.

https://johnlewis.ie/custom-ch...

I am posting this from a Celes right now.

Failing that, you could try Crouton:
https://www.linux.com/learn/ho...

The main issue with booting real linux on a chromebook is the use of the SPI bus instead of a legacy PCI bus. This makes for serious issues with getting SDCard slots, keyboards, and mice running.

Linux can fix that by adding better support for SPI based devices in mainline, but clearly it is google's fault. (rolls eyes)

It will be interesting to see if they do but given the previous sales numbers I don't find it likely. With the x-server you could buy more for less in the PC space and that will likely remain true.

Remember, those were PPC-based. They never made an Intel-Based XServe. In fact, the point at which they killed the product line was when they would have logically upgraded XServe to Intel.

However, they MIGHT go against the grain, and build an ARM-based Server. The power usage (or lack thereof) is damn-nigh incredible on ARM, and if they are truly building purpose-built servers (rather than as a toe back into the XServe market), then they only have to get a certain number of software packages working on ARM, rather than an entire OS X or Linux stack. (And yes, I am aware that Linux exists for ARM already).

Apparently it can?

Assuming you're serious, Chrome OS runs on a computer. There are a few builds - you can even try it via USB. Start here:
https://www.linux.com/learn/tu...

There is also something a little interesting called CloudReady OS from Neverware.
www.neverware.com

I have, technically, seen that run from a Live USB - sort of. I booted a VM and ran it live in the VM. ;-) It worked. Meh, it's an OS. Not my favorite OS and I didn't spend enough time to learn it or learn much about it. It was a short lived experience but you're certainly encouraged to try it out for fit.

This is KGIII. I've run out of daily posts so I'm gonna post this as an AC. Someday, maybe, Whipslash will get around to fixing that as he said he would. However, I can understand that it's really not the most pressing of issues. Maybe when I come back from my trip, it'll be fixed.

Don't use Winblows, use Linux or something.

You cretinous hobo, or somesuch.

All file systems are approximately the same for most day to day users.

ZFS is not merely yet another way to arrange pieces of your files on the disks (and "disks") — it is a filesystem and a volume-manager in one.

I would be interested in knowing which is fastest at read/writes.

ZFS adds features, which are a rarity among other filesystems: checksumming, options for redundancy and deduplication, snapshots, etc.

We spent decades keeping the underlying storage separate from the filesystem on top of it — neither ufs, nor xfs, nor ext know, what actual hardware is underneath the /dev/foo — and SCSI or (S)ATA protocols is all they can use to talk to this device. In these days of RAIDs and SSDs, the newfs(8) still has notions of sector-sizes and cylinder-groups, for crying out loud.

With ZFS we have a filesystem, that is aware of the underlying hardware and can make a good use of that knowledge. It is, what Unix filesystem would've been, had we had RAIDs in the seventies... But the above-mentioned checksumming and snapshots as well as redundancy and deduplication options are useful even on with a single drive.

For home users, basically meaningless.

Come, come, even FreeNAS users use ZFS on their systems to protect their content from "bit rot" and hardware failures. Smarter folks have been turning to FreeBSD, which has been offering ZFS for years — and Linux developers started working on porting it to Linux long ago — first as a FUSE-module, and now, finally, as part of the kernel.

Than get Trend Micro Server protect. Trend Micro's virus scanner on Windows installs plugins into browsers as well, but it works as you describe. I doubt their Linux virus scanner does the same thing, as Linux is thought of as a server OS only by them.

http://www.trendmicro.com/us/e...

It doesn't matter what Linux compatible virus scan you choose, it is your choice.

https://www.linux.com/news/sof...

The UNIX philosophy was always groups of simple tools that do one thing and do it well. You pipe them together and parse the data however you want. Systemd does the exact opposite of that. One monolithic service doing everything but poorly.

If you build systemd with all configuration options enabled you will build 69 individual binaries. These binaries all serve different tasks, and are neatly separated for a number of reasons.

A package involving 69 individual binaries can hardly be called monolithic. What is different from prior solutions however, is that we ship more components in a single tarball, and maintain them upstream in a single repository with a unified release cycle.

The Biggest Myths

[2013]

You're beta testing this bullshit.

Then you are in damn good company.

Much of the debate about systemd is academic at this point because here's a truth that you'll discover in Debian 8, Ubuntu 15.04, and just about every other major distro around: systemd is here.

Debian 8: Linux's most reliable distro makes its biggest change since 1993 [May 1, 2015]

Red Hat is the inventor and primary booster of systemd, so the best distros for playing with it are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL clones like CentOS and Scientific Linux, and of course good ole Fedora Linux, which always ships with the latest, greatest, and bleeding-edgiest.

Understanding and using Systemd

I was looking at this recently; this should turn off and block much of it:

Turn off CEIP, Uninstall updates, and then hide telemetry updates to prevent re-install:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Note: my "CEIP" setting was opted-out, but I still received two of those updates. So the "you don't get these updates if you're not in CEIP" assertions are incorrect, at least in my case.

Turn off CEIP reporting services:
https://pubs.vmware.com/view-5...

I kept having that "Update Windows 10" (GWXUX) service crash, so I turned it off using the registry update at the end of this article, leaving myself the opportunity to reverse the process and upgrade later if desired:
http://www.howtogeek.com/21885...

If you want to block windows 10 telemetry using a quick and dirty private DNS server, along with ad and malware blocking, install dnsmasq on a computer (maybe a raspberry pi if you're going for cheap, I'm using a VM on a test bed computer in bridged mode for this experiment):
https://www.linux.com/learn/tu... ...and block using an amalgamation of HOSTS files from here:
https://github.com/StevenBlack...

It's a python script that gets a few HOSTS files on the net and de-duplicates them into a mega crap-blocker list. The resulting list includes tens of thousands of DNS lookups that will be blocked at the perimeter of your network, so it could cause some web pages or software to break they depend on sites blocked by these lists. You can prepare you own windows 10 specific HOSTS file using entries from http://someonewhocares.org/hos... and those listed in articles about this issue if you feel paranoid. Windows can side-step your hosts file, but not your DNS server!

Stating the obvious: you'll want to leave the quick and dirty DNS behind your firewall/router, not expose it to the Internet.

https://www.linux.com/

Just sayin'.

More ports. Runs Linux. I agree about the touchscreen, though. Don't really quite understand that for a laptop.

Not more ports than a MBA (which is a similar price, and has more storage and a faster CPU, and doesn't have Google datamining your every word). And it runs Linux, too.

The FAT32 patent expired in 2013, however there is exFAT which is still under a patent. Getting into a patent war can be very messy, time consuming and expensive so it is no wonder many firms pay to avoid litigation. I suppose you can say this is the modern day version of extortion. :)

In case you are wondering how Linux in general is able to avoid the FAT and now exFAT patent on a technicality, according to this article .

Sun and Ubuntu did replace init, but that's all their replacement did. It didn't creep into other areas and try to take over all of system management.

How is upstartd, SMF, launchd, different than SystemD?

From brief overview the arguments it does everything is fud. No it does not route packets. It launches a process which communicates to the networking daemon inet for this. No it does manage kernel level threads. It is not a mini operating system at all and is just 300k lines of code.

SystemD is no different than the other event driven alternatives. It just requires relearning which people set in their ways get infuriated about.

With startupd, launchd, SMF, and SystemD you set the triggers for each event. No long scripts loaded with nested if/else statements galore or expensive proprietary software to mask this lack of functionality in init.

That is my answer to the grandparents argument there was no need for change. Kind of reminds me of XP users angry at MS for merely just 13 years of support and do not see the obvious need for security via ASLR ram scrambling & DEP, better process handling, better driver models, USB storage frameworks, and so on.

Things progress

Linux is fragmented because of init and all those config files scattered all over the place.
OK, lets unify them with systemd.
Now Linux is a monopolistic polarizing dictatorship.

"The Story Behind 'init' and 'systemd': Why 'init' Needed to be Replaced with 'systemd' in Linux"

"Here We Go Again, Another Linux Init: Intro to systemd"

With startupd, launchd, SMF, and SystemD you set the triggers for each event. No long scripts loaded with nested if/else statements galore or expensive proprietary software to mask this lack of functionality in init.

Okay, I'm always willing to learn, so please, give me a lesson. I set up a trigger for the event and the trigger does not fire. What do I do? In case of the "long script with nested if/else statements galore" I'm pretty sure what do I do there - put in some echo statements to verify the execution path. What do I do with systemd?

An event will log it. No need for echo paths.

A very basic schematic on how it works is here.

This is what should happen everywhere...

http://www.linux.com/news/feat...

By the way here is a screenshot of Netscape Navigator 3.04 still running fine on the computer, but barely crawling around on the Internet in 2014. http://imgur.com/i9WtAK2

PS. By luck I happened to capture Winamp at 108 and 42.

108 = 1^1 * 2^2 * 3^3 and it's a magical number used as the number of beans on a Buddhist rosary for Om Mane Padme Hum. That beats the Catholic rosary of 5*10 Hail Mary's + 5 * Our Father's + 4 * Intro ~ 60 Items.

And for 42 (101010 in binary) see http://www.independent.co.uk/l... I first learned about it in a linux MOTD. See customizing MOTD's with BOFH excuses, such as shown at http://www.linux.com/learn/tut... and http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/ .

PS.PS. I wish XP had a similar option, that instead of a graphical logon, you could log in to pure DOS, like in the Win95 days, and type Win to get into the GUI, but when you exit to console, it would remove the GUI processing overhead and leave you with something very minimum and text like, that would work well for things like a cashier machine. But that's what linux is for. Or used to be until they got it too complicated. In any case, I still can't find a selection of speedy and user friendly apps for linux (or even newer versions of Windows) comparable to what's available for XP. Security is an issue, but with Zonalarm killing everything including ctfmon and whatnot. it's halfway manageable. It's still a busy process with frequent XP reinstalls for any Internet connected devices. If you can afford not to connect something to the Internet, like a workstation made to create music or CAD or read offline pdf files off a portable disk, you don't have to constantly reinstall. But that's what my reinstall computer looks like, and I can't really replace it with anything Linux has to offer for now, on the app and feature part. I mean Konqueror 3.5.10 had features better than Windows Explorer. but it plain sucks in copy speed, and qt4 and 5 based stuff is even worse, and it has weird features I don't like. And I got Super Flexible File Synchronizer for the deficiencies that Windows Explorer or Windows Backup lacks for backing up the data like an emusic mp3 or downloaded ebook pdf to a portable disk, right before a wipe and reinstall. Now wait til Microsoft buys Super Flexible, and messes it up too. But they do have. or used to have some really good software. Like I'd put MS Office 97 with sp1+sp2 on this computer if I did not constantly wipe and reinstall it. as Office Excel is better than the Works Spreadsheet that does not allow you to bang up some VBA macros to massage your data. But I find that I don't need macros most of the time, so it's not worth the bother.

And that alternative is selling "Steam Machines" with a Microsoft tax?

The one that we have known about for years that you can get a refund for. So did you not know that or are you just a defeatist?

http://www.linux.com/news/feat...

Is there an impact on Linux, is the development being influenced by US Department of Defense and NSA?

Conspiratorial view on Linux security:

Since then, more has happened to reveal the true story here, the depth of which surprised even me. The GTK development story and the systemd debate on Debian revealed much corporate pressure being brought to bear in Linux. [...] Some really startling facts about Red Hat came to light. For me the biggest was the fact that the US military is Red Hat's largest customer:

"When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source," General Justice continued. "It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is 'the' single largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I'm their largest customer." (2008)

This is pretty much what I had figured. I'm not exactly new to this, and I figured that in some way the military-industrial/corporate/intelligence complex was in control of Red Hat and Linux. [...] But I didn't expect it to be stated so plainly. Any fool should realize that "biggest customer" doesn't mean tallest or widest, it means the most money. IOW, most of Red Hat's money comes from the military - they have first say in its development. And the connection between the military and spying agencies, etc. should be obvious.

Next, a reader posted this FOSDEM: NSA Operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report. Well worth watching in its entirety (including the Q&A at the end), to me this turned out to be a road-map detailing how Red Hat is operating on Linux!

http://archive09.linux.com/feature/59196

Fair enough

2007 : http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119109
2013 : http://davelargo.blogspot.fr/

No one should be buying this proprietary garbage to begin with. These companies despise openness and users' freedoms.

This is such bollocks. It's a fucking games console: it's an optional luxury in life. It plays games and that's why you buy it. If you're not interested in the games then don't buy it. Yes, it's locked it down, and there are obvious reasons for that. I fail to see how it being locked down takes away your freedom. You're still free to buy a general purpose computer and use that instead. You're still free to shove Linux on your PS3 (despite the lack of OtherOS), it's just more of a pain in the arse now: http://www.linux.com/learn/answers/view/490-is-it-possible-to-put-linux-on-my-ps3-without-the-use-of-any-other-pc Yes, it's annoying that they took away the feature and it would have pissed me off if I depended on it. But it's an annoyance, not an assault on freedom.

You mock, but ...
Linux Drives Cadillac Into the Infotainment Era

Yes, the "buggy mess" of the Cadillac User Experience is based on Debian Linux, is acknowledged as Open Source by the FSF, and GM provides free APIs & toolkits to allow app development by end-users...

BetterFS and ButterFS are both correct. http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/22449-a-conversation-with-chris-mason-on-btrfs-the-next-generation-file-system-for-linux

"I'm looking for suggestions for an activity that will give the students some hands-on, real world experience that will benefit them immediately".

Open Source Linux Boards Under $200

"The following Top 10 community backed Linux boards are listed in alphabetical order, with links, price, project, and processor. They are described in more detail in the slide show below (click on View Gallery)."

Linux has device independant caching now:
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/728209-about-the-linux-kernel-bcache

There's finally a Linux version!

All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible.

(from http://archive09.linux.com/feature/155922)

We have all been bitten by this. It is not that prevalent on servers (what I use Linux for), but desktop distros definately suffers from this.

also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/dependency-hell-233892/

http://fixunix.com/suse/265243-dependency-hell.html

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=289520&goto=nextnewest

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/52282.aspx

Dependency hell is real. Package managers help mitigate the problem locally, but software repositories are distro and version specific. Once you step outside of the official repository you risk stepping into dependency hell, as many of the above experienced. I fully concede that it *shoudn't* be a problem if every piece of software author did what they were supposed to do. It is the OSs job to provide a service and guidance so that authors do the right thing. Linux is not quite there yet, unfortunately. That's why you see the typical advice to install from the "official" distro and version specific repository. But that model is flawed.

Yours is not a fair statement. She’s been contributing to the Linux kernel for (as far as I can tell after a quick Google) 5 years or more. She’s not ‘attempting to join [the] community’; she’s already part of the community.

And she’s attempting to change it from within. Nothing, ipso facto, wrong with that.

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Sarah Sharp <<-- describes her involvement with kernel in 2007.

Okay, in that case she's been a part of it for a while now and has (so far as I know) suddenly decided she doesn't like the way things are. That's fine. Asking for change and such is fine to a point. However, this is also closely related to the ridiculous idea that people have a right not to be offended or to hear things they don't like. No such right exists.

If they are unwilling to change, and I unsurprisingly tend to agree with Linus's stance on the fakery involved in being "professional", then she can either deal with it or leave. The people on that list were the way they were long before she got there even if she has been involved with it for the last few years.

Yours is not a fair statement. She’s been contributing to the Linux kernel for (as far as I can tell after a quick Google) 5 years or more. She’s not ‘attempting to join [the] community’; she’s already part of the community.

And she’s attempting to change it from within. Nothing, ipso facto, wrong with that.

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Sarah Sharp <<-- describes her involvement with kernel in 2007.

Yeah, you must be right.

What role do you play in the community and/or what subsystem(s) do you work on?
I'm the Linux kernel xHCI driver maintainer. I own Linux USB 3.0 support, and I send my patches up to Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is the USB subsystem maintainer.

Where do you get your paycheck?
I work in Intel's Open Source Technology Center, along with a bunch of other cool Linux kernel developers.

(Source: https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-developers/593966-30-linux-kernel-developers-in-30-weeks-sarah-sharp)

Yeah, obviously she's a pretender. She's never done anything of note, and is just playing up the "oh poor me, i'm just a porr widdle girl somebody save me!" card. Clearly she's just "damseling." She feels like she hasn't accomplished enough, and is trying to take a shortcut to success. You can tell, because she has that double X chromosome condition.

Friend, I dare say that she's done more for the Linux operating system than anybody else responding here in this comment thread. Perhaps it's time that Linus sits up and realize that he's alienating the very people who are helping him keep the ship afloat with his abusive outbursts.

http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/485159-a-conversation-with-linus-torvalds

"I think I will call 3.11 Linux for Workgroups."

5.0 is pretty ancient. MySQL abandoned BDB as a backend in 2006, shortly after Oracle acquired BDB. They couldn't use vanilla BDB, it required their own patches to the BDB source tree.

http://archive09.linux.com/articles/56835

Good point.

All thus FUD is because carmakers are starting to standardise on Linux for in-car systems. Microsoft is trying to poison the well before Automotive Grade Linux gets established.

The In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) System is the most complex electronic system in the car. It collects data from all of the car’s sensors and integrates functions as diverse as navigation, climate control, media playback, cellphone connectivity and more.

Yet automakers have focused on IVI as their first target for open source software collaboration. Both the Automotive Grade Linux working group and GENIVI alliance are pioneering collaborative efforts to develop a Linux-based open source platform for IVI software development.

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/719560-5-reasons-infotainment-is-the-first-target-for-open-source-software-in-cars

I though he was busy with hacking Fedora kernels.

In the very worst case, you can stand up your own server, as we have access to the source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Well, I know this article is a couple years old, but it says you need two different database engines and an S3 account to make it work. If I'm standing up my own server with my own data backends, why would I want to pay for a third data backend?

Obligatory: http://archive09.linux.com/articles/42031

Sadly the article is a bit out of date, and Wine has hopefully increased support by now.

People freuqently are impressed by the clarity I produce in mutt using vim as compared to all my outlook-weilding cavemen.

PROTIP: Vim has spell check.