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Red Hat CEO: Linux Is Now The 'Default Choice' For The Cloud (bizjournals.com)
Speaking at the "All Things Open" conference, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst remembered when Linux "was just a 'bunch of geeks' getting together figuring it all out on an 8286 chip" 25 years ago. An anonymous reader quotes BizJournals:
"It went from being kind of a hacker movement to truly what I'll say [is] a viable alternative to traditional software," Whitehurst says, adding that Red Hat was a part of that push. Over the years, it came out from under the radar, being what Whitehurst calls "the default choice for a next-generation of infrastructure," particularly when it comes to cloud architectures... He points to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all having open sourced their machine learning systems. "They recognize the company that builds the community around that piece of technology, that technology is going to win."
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First off, that's 80286. Missed a zero there.
Second off, that's wrong. Linux needed an 80386sx as its minimum supported CPU.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion.
Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Company head says my company is the leader in current buzzword-hype-technology.
Is there really nothing going on right now that we use that as "news"?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...we get Bill Gates' MS-Linux. That will be the day I switch to Linux. As long as MS is not in the Linux OS game, neither will I be.
Slashdot headline: "Linux is the default choice".
There's... sort of a significant gap between the two.
ah yes... the typical win fan boy response... the OS doesn't have a brain dead gui in front of it so it must be too hard. maybe some day you'll grow up into those big boy pants you wear (ok, that's just an assumption on my part, maybe you won't).
Bill? Is that you?
Of course it is. Because only a complete moron would use Windoze on a server, and unfortunately Apple got out of the server game.
So Linux isn't just the default choice, it's the only choice.
Is a safe full of Blu-Ray backups, under my full control and not connected to the internet in any way.
I mean they offer cloud installs of RHEL, but few will be clicking that button.
Secure boot and shoddy BIOS make Linux on a lot of PC's hard to utilize. If you can access the cloud someway however then it's ok.
Now on to the next step:
Step #2: Keep Microsoft from annexing Linux. Microsoft has, in my estimation, already started trying to create some inroads towards 'owning' Linux. Some of you will say that the open-source license of Linux will prevent that, but in case you haven't been paying attention, Microsoft, and in particular that son of a bitch Nadella, doens't care much for playing by the rules, using any dirty underhanded trick he can to own as many computerized devices they can. So the Linux community is going to have to be very careful to not allow Microsoft to get it's hooks into Linux and subvert it into just another tool for them to use to take over.
Step #3: Expand the promotion of Linux as a primary operating system. Unless some other corporation that is not Microsoft comes along with a commerical offering that is a direct competitor to Windows, Linux is going to be the only other choice in the market to keep Windows and Microsoft from making every computer in the Free World part of their gods-be-damned bot-net and into one gigantic surveillance platform to spy on people 24/7/365 in their own homes. The Linux community must expand it's efforts to produce distributions of Linux that can attract end-users away from Windows, especially in corporate and government settings, and an aggresive marketing campaign to promote them in these settings is of the utmost importance. The fact that it is now firmly and indellibly embedded in the infrastructure of the Internet is proof that a solid beach-head has been established, which can be used as a 'base of operations' for the continued invasion of Linux into Windows-held territory.
Yes, I'm using military-like terminology here, because make no mistake about this: This is a WAR being fought, and the stakes are the freedom of choice for all levels of end-users of general computing devices across the entire Free World. The U.S. government may not be able to stop Microsoft from holding a monopoly until it's already an established fact, and for that matter the government may be helpless if Microsoft products are what are running their IT infrastructure. The Linux community-at-large, and (sadly) Apple may be the last bastions of computing freedom, and as we've seen recently, Microsoft is already making probing attacks against Apple and their OS -- therefore Linux may be the Last Hope.
No, I'm not kidding with any of this, I'm dead serious. This is WAR, make no mistake about it, so, Linux community, I suggest you likewise take it seriously.
If you are like the windows guys I work with, you are only two steps above a monkey banging on a keyboard. I am surprised they ever get that crap OS to run. Watching them type with two fingers is painful.
But what do I know, maybe they want fire that can be fitted nasally.
...your fun at partys
I used to like both Linux and BSD very much. Then systemd hits Linux and now I only use OpenBSD. Besides, Linux has become something of kludge.and it is less secure now than it was.
I got my cert! Basically needed it to prove that I can work with systemd
READY.
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What were they expecting Windows? I don't know enough to comment on BSD but other than that, what are the other options? I would generally consider anything but linux in a cloud environment to be some terrible terrible marketing experiment in progress where some OS company bribed a bunch of users to use the stupid solution they were offering. Then expect to see those companies either fail because of their stupid choice, or switch and talk about how stupid their choice had been.
You've never known the touch of a woman other than your mother...
...that one time when she forgot the rubber gloves.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
....any more SHIT from you, I'll SQUEEZE it out of your dumb fucking head.
...one more brain cell, it would be lonely.
RH has gone full Microsoft. Their once vaunted RHCE is now nothing more than a "how to use the RHEL control panel to ask systemd to change your hostname". No more "the Unix way", now, it's all "The RedHat Way".
Want to install an app in a user's home dir, and run that app as that user? Be prepared for a dozen systemd and SELinux fail knobs (that is, until you disable SELinux). Want to download, compile and run something out of /opt/whatever because that''s how you want to do it? Yeah, sorry, more knobs.
Disclosure: I was an RHCE until RHEL7 came out, and I won't be renewing.
If you are going to expand and contract instances based on demand you aren't going to spring for a bunch of proprietary server licensing.
Rather than have to predict your maximum load ahead of time or have licenses sitting on the shelf you just run Linux and don't worry about it at all.
What do you mean? Unless you thought that it was so much easier to administer AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Sco, and Solaris (depending on your viewpoint). Or maybe you thought that AS/400 was easier to use?
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
The AS/400 has a complete menu based system administration mode. Its actually quite easy to figure many things out without really having to know any programming/scripting languages. Similarly with AIX (smitty) and HP-UX (sam/smh). Both of which are conceptually comparable to what a window's control panel/administrator menu is capable of. Particularly now that MS has stopped putting any effort into assuring that the GUI can actually configure everything in the machine.
I'm not sure about IRIX, but sco, solaris and linux lag behind in this category. In the case of linux its heavily dependent on which distro you use, with suse's yast probably being the most complete, and approaching the level of what was available in hpux/aix, but still only covering a limited subset of the total configuration options (although it manages to nail all the most important options, allowing you to configure a basic SMB/apache/whatever server without having to drop to the command line).
Regardless of what I hope are typos in the summary, I recently attended a 'cloud debate'. Of course, one of the groups there was for Azure of Microsoft fame and they had I believe the Open Source director as one of the two representing Azure.
One of the things that stuck out during the debate was that he openly admit that initially, Windows instances easily made up over 70% of all instances launched in Azure BUT in the last 2 odd years, this number has flipped and Linux now represents 70% of the new instances being brought up in Azure.