1) License tracking is license tracking, regardless of whether it's Redhat, Microsoft, or Oracle. The major appeal of Free (and Open Source) software is not having to report to anyone.
It's not a licence, it's support. Depending on whether you have signed a contract that restricts you further (at your own choice) or not, you can install as many copies as you like (but you would need to do some work to get updates to more instances, like run reposync on an instance that has a subscription).
2) We don't use Redhat support for anything other than software updates. The few times we used Redhat support for problem solving, the support personnel knew less about the problem space than we did. This is typical of most paid support.
We, a linux-centric team within a big telco, also only use RH support for updates for the same reason (we can almost always resolve issues quicker than it would take to get a ticket escalated to soneone with skils. However, in a few instances RH support has identified issues where someone on our team made a mistake which then alloeed a quicker resolution.
However, other less-experienced teams in the rest of the company need RH support more than we do.
Also, when dealing with other vendors (server, storage etc.), it helps to be able to tell them 'Red Hat has vetted our config, your solution claims to be certified on Red Hat on this hardware combination, our support contract now requires you to fix our stirage issue'
3) With Redhat, there is no freedom to fire up a new virtual (or physical) server without significant additional cost, just like with non-Free software.
For VMs, that depends on the subscription. You could easily buy unlimited VM subs and run 10 VMs for less in subs than the 5 VM sub.
In fact, Red Hat Smart Virtualisation (RHEV, aka supported ovirt, plus unlimited VM subs) is cheaper than the cheapest way to get vSphere Enterprise (VSPP), and you get supported VMs for free.
Who are you paying for your vietualusation infrasructure software? Did you factor his in to your comparison?
For non-production physical machines, we spin up RHEL instances in minutes (via kickstart), and only take out a sub if it ends up being a permanent installation or requiring support or updates. However we are busy phasing out the use of physical servers wherever possible and replacong them with VMs on RHEV.
"Juniper uses FreeBSD & Cisco use their own proprietary operating system called ios (yup, same name as apple's mobile O/S)"
Cisco has a number of "operating systems": - IOS, used on older router platforms and Catalyst switches (which are now limited mostly to use as access switches) - IOS-XR which runs on high-end routers (CRS, ASR9K, C12K), which is based on QNX -IOS-XE which runs on current entry-level to mid-range routers (ASR1K), which is Linux-based -NX-OS which powers most current Cisco data-centre offerings (Nexus), which is Linux-based
If you have Cisco equipment and no Linux, your equipment is most likely all EOL or very close to it.
One thing that (AFAIK) can cause this is the fstab file listing filesystems as required to boot which are not present. Other init systems may incorrectly ignore their absence, but systemd believes that if a required filesystem is missing manyal intervention should be required.
Although this shoukd be pretty obvious from tge 'journalctl -xb' output.
"Remember way back, over 10 years ago when Steve Jobs started eslling music online? And how iTunes grew to become THE source for music? And how Apple managed to bully the music industry?"
And how did this come to pass? The music industry spent 5 years fighting MP3 downloads and trying to bankrupt their customers for 'piracy' when they could have spent the 5 years building their own online music store and dictating to music player manufacturers. They would have found thay instead of having to take their customer to court that their customers would happily give them money for the very minimal effort (no manufacturing or distribution costs etc.).
So to me it looks mostly like they are repeating their mistakes (unless you count Hulu, but Hulu doesn't seem to have plans to launch in many other countries whereas Netflix is now available in mosy of the world).
The summary was maybe bit misleading
This is not actually abput changing your MAC address, but using a different algorithm for IPv6 StateLess Address Auto Configuration than the EUI-64 method (which is "ef80${MAC}").
This doesn't impact IPv4 DHCP or AP MAC address filters at all, and if your routers are configured to send the right eouter advertisements in response to IPv6 router solicitation, will have no impact on DHCPv6.
Most of the problems listed were Ubuntu/Unity-specific.
In my experience, Linux also wins on performance and stability, but is behind in applications available and support for new or obscure hardware (but support for widely used hardware that has been available for 1 year or more is better than Windows).
The release notes for wine 1.6 (https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6), which was released on 18 July 2013, state:
"*** Mac driver
- A native Mac OS X driver is implemented, for better integration with the Mac desktop environment. The full range of driver features are supported, including OpenGL, window management, clipboard, drag & drop, system tray, etc.
- X11 is no longer needed on Mac OS X, but the X11 driver is still supported, e.g. when running remotely. Note: the Mac driver requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later, it cannot be built or used on 10.5.
- FontConfig is no longer needed on Mac OS X and is disabled by default, system fonts are enumerated using the Core Text API instead."
(sorry if the formatting ends up poor, no preview on mobile)
I like systemd, it's better than every distro having their own slightly different init system, and there are lots of benefits over any of the previously popular init systems.
This must be debian-specific. On my 4 personal machines running one distro using systemd, and all the systems at work running a totally unrelated distro that also uses systemd, I have never seen this (neither distro is Debian-based).
Except it doesn't. The examples provided in the past supposedly proving this used the wrong Type= value (should have been forking, not left to the default which is 'simple').
Oh, the GIMP is kinda obligatory but you got to have Gnome...
GIMP doesn't require GNOME, but GTK and some related libraries.
Dolphin is so nice, but all those KDE deps for one program?
KDE5 is changing that.
I understand toolkits and DEs and they provide a cheap basis on which to build lots of software... but if you want just one excellent app (K3B, Inkscape, etc.) your machine will get a lot fatter -- not to mention the conflicts which might^H^H^H^H^H will arise.
What conflicts? I usually run KDE with evolution installed (need a mail client with Exchange support), and have never, in mqny years see any conflict. For many years (when actively packaging gui apps and thus needing to test menu entries) I ran with multiple full desktop environments installed, and saw no conflicts.
Most likely whoever runs the border router(s) in question just needs to AS path prepend on the peering session with the satellite provider to make it look worse.
I live in South Africa, basically anything, except some content (Google has a node with search and mail in Johannesburg) and CDNs, is 200ms+ (rtt) away.
In the past I riutinely edited files renotely iver ssh with 250ms rtt, and found no real issues. You most certainly can type at more than 4 chars a second, if you don't wait for each one to appear on screen before typing the next. But you learn not to make mistakes...
"It's theoretically possible for dm-crypt/luks to have a MacOS, WIndows, and FreeBSD driver (which would also probably require the filesystem drivers, as ext4 isn't well supported on those either), but it's not easy."
iTunes is available in South Africa (without any tricks, you pay in ZAR, vouchers are available in most stores ). I think some video content that is available in the US isn't available in the South African iTunes store due to regional exclusive rights belonging to other players (satellite providers such as DStv), but I believe all music is avilable.
Google Play Music and Amazon Prime aren't available. Spotify isn't available without DNS tricks, but Deezer is.
A few video streaming providers operate in SA, including the recently-launched Showmax.
This is users complaining about change, not about poorly planned / executed change.
You always get these types, regardless of the type of change ( upgrade, change of vendors etc.), because they don't care about business objectives or anyone/anything besides "what they are used to", regardless of the effort that was put in to prepare them for the change.
As far as I remember, their transition strategy started with deploying OpenOffice and Firefox on all Windows machines and making them the default, then removing MS Office a few months later, then switching the OS a year later while keeping most applications the same.
IOW it is almost impossible that the users didn't have a word processor available or know how to use it, or even if it was the case, thus wasn't as a result of the OS change.
Not having Skype may be due to policy (which would apply regardless of OS), in favour of other privacy-respecting IM platform.
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1) License tracking is license tracking, regardless of whether it's Redhat, Microsoft, or Oracle. The major appeal of Free (and Open Source) software is not having to report to anyone.
It's not a licence, it's support. Depending on whether you have signed a contract that restricts you further (at your own choice) or not, you can install as many copies as you like (but you would need to do some work to get updates to more instances, like run reposync on an instance that has a subscription).
2) We don't use Redhat support for anything other than software updates. The few times we used Redhat support for problem solving, the support personnel knew less about the problem space than we did. This is typical of most paid support.
We, a linux-centric team within a big telco, also only use RH support for updates for the same reason (we can almost always resolve issues quicker than it would take to get a ticket escalated to soneone with skils. However, in a few instances RH support has identified issues where someone on our team made a mistake which then alloeed a quicker resolution.
However, other less-experienced teams in the rest of the company need RH support more than we do.
Also, when dealing with other vendors (server, storage etc.), it helps to be able to tell them 'Red Hat has vetted our config, your solution claims to be certified on Red Hat on this hardware combination, our support contract now requires you to fix our stirage issue'
3) With Redhat, there is no freedom to fire up a new virtual (or physical) server without significant additional cost, just like with non-Free software.
For VMs, that depends on the subscription. You could easily buy unlimited VM subs and run 10 VMs for less in subs than the 5 VM sub.
In fact, Red Hat Smart Virtualisation (RHEV, aka supported ovirt, plus unlimited VM subs) is cheaper than the cheapest way to get vSphere Enterprise (VSPP), and you get supported VMs for free.
Who are you paying for your vietualusation infrasructure software? Did you factor his in to your comparison?
For non-production physical machines, we spin up RHEL instances in minutes (via kickstart), and only take out a sub if it ends up being a permanent installation or requiring support or updates. However we are busy phasing out the use of physical servers wherever possible and replacong them with VMs on RHEV.
"Juniper uses FreeBSD & Cisco use their own proprietary operating system called ios (yup, same name as apple's mobile O/S)"
Cisco has a number of "operating systems":
- IOS, used on older router platforms and Catalyst switches (which are now limited mostly to use as access switches)
- IOS-XR which runs on high-end routers (CRS, ASR9K, C12K), which is based on QNX
-IOS-XE which runs on current entry-level to mid-range routers (ASR1K), which is Linux-based
-NX-OS which powers most current Cisco data-centre offerings (Nexus), which is Linux-based
If you have Cisco equipment and no Linux, your equipment is most likely all EOL or very close to it.
"just like how my ISP won't allow me to send IP packets with a source address outside of my assigned block."
But, judging the prevalance of DNS- or NTP-amplification attacks, while your ISP may implement uRPF, it clearly isn't widespread enough.
And I can think of justifications why caller IDs on specific lines may need to differ from the numbers routed to that line (but not for unicast IP).
It's better than 90% of a backup of /etc being taken up by xml schemas (of the configuration files), none of which I have ever seen the need to modify.
Yes, I'm looking at you gconf.
The systemd approach also makes it easy to identify if any files were customised.
Set Type=forking in your service unit (the default is simple, which expects inetd-style services).
One thing that (AFAIK) can cause this is the fstab file listing filesystems as required to boot which are not present. Other init systems may incorrectly ignore their absence, but systemd believes that if a required filesystem is missing manyal intervention should be required.
Although this shoukd be pretty obvious from tge 'journalctl -xb' output.
"Remember way back, over 10 years ago when Steve Jobs started eslling music online? And how iTunes grew to become THE source for music? And how Apple managed to bully the music industry?"
And how did this come to pass? The music industry spent 5 years fighting MP3 downloads and trying to bankrupt their customers for 'piracy' when they could have spent the 5 years building their own online music store and dictating to music player manufacturers. They would have found thay instead of having to take their customer to court that their customers would happily give them money for the very minimal effort (no manufacturing or distribution costs etc.).
So to me it looks mostly like they are repeating their mistakes (unless you count Hulu, but Hulu doesn't seem to have plans to launch in many other countries whereas Netflix is now available in mosy of the world).
Sorry, eui-64 format for host identifier is roughly "${MAC:0:7}:ff:fe:${MAC:8:15}".
The summary was maybe bit misleading
This is not actually abput changing your MAC address, but using a different algorithm for IPv6 StateLess Address Auto Configuration than the EUI-64 method (which is "ef80${MAC}").
This doesn't impact IPv4 DHCP or AP MAC address filters at all, and if your routers are configured to send the right eouter advertisements in response to IPv6 router solicitation, will have no impact on DHCPv6.
Ubuntu != Linux
Most of the problems listed were Ubuntu/Unity-specific.
In my experience, Linux also wins on performance and stability, but is behind in applications available and support for new or obscure hardware (but support for widely used hardware that has been available for 1 year or more is better than Windows).
The release notes for wine 1.6 (https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6), which was released on 18 July 2013, state:
"*** Mac driver
- A native Mac OS X driver is implemented, for better integration with the Mac desktop environment. The full range of driver features are supported, including OpenGL, window management, clipboard, drag & drop, system tray, etc.
- X11 is no longer needed on Mac OS X, but the X11 driver is still supported, e.g. when running remotely. Note: the Mac driver requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later, it cannot be built or used on 10.5.
- FontConfig is no longer needed on Mac OS X and is disabled by default, system fonts are enumerated using the Core Text API instead."
(sorry if the formatting ends up poor, no preview on mobile)
You mean Microsoft knows how to make management of their desktop OS only work well with their server software.
What if you aren't running windows desktops?
I like systemd, it's better than every distro having their own slightly different init system, and there are lots of benefits over any of the previously popular init systems.
This must be debian-specific. On my 4 personal machines running one distro using systemd, and all the systems at work running a totally unrelated distro that also uses systemd, I have never seen this (neither distro is Debian-based).
Except it doesn't. The examples provided in the past supposedly proving this used the wrong Type= value (should have been forking, not left to the default which is 'simple').
Oh, the GIMP is kinda obligatory but you got to have Gnome...
GIMP doesn't require GNOME, but GTK and some related libraries.
Dolphin is so nice, but all those KDE deps for one program?
KDE5 is changing that.
I understand toolkits and DEs and they provide a cheap basis on which to build lots of software... but if you want just one excellent app (K3B, Inkscape, etc.) your machine will get a lot fatter -- not to mention the conflicts which might^H^H^H^H^H will arise.
What conflicts? I usually run KDE with evolution installed (need a mail client with Exchange support), and have never, in mqny years see any conflict. For many years (when actively packaging gui apps and thus needing to test menu entries)
I ran with multiple full desktop environments installed, and saw no conflicts.
Most likely whoever runs the border router(s) in question just needs to AS path prepend on the peering session with the satellite provider to make it look worse.
"You can't even type FOUR CHARACTERS PER SECOND!"
I live in South Africa, basically anything, except some content (Google has a node with search and mail in Johannesburg) and CDNs, is 200ms+ (rtt) away.
In the past I riutinely edited files renotely iver ssh with 250ms rtt, and found no real issues. You most certainly can type at more than 4 chars a second, if you don't wait for each one to appear on screen before typing the next. But you learn not to make mistakes ...
"It's theoretically possible for dm-crypt/luks to have a MacOS, WIndows, and FreeBSD driver (which would also probably require the filesystem drivers, as ext4 isn't well supported on those either), but it's not easy."
For Windows, you mean like https://github.com/t-d-k/Libre... (previously http://sourceforge.net/project...)
Please provide a link to a systemd document explaining their "policy to drop syslog messages".
On RH/Centos, systemd forwards to syslog by default, but systemctl status dhcpd (or similar) is very handy.
Please use Type=forking in your unit file to get the behaviour you are expecting. It's covered in the man page.
iTunes is available in South Africa (without any tricks, you pay in ZAR, vouchers are available in most stores ). I think some video content that is available in the US isn't available in the South African iTunes store due to regional exclusive rights belonging to other players (satellite providers such as DStv), but I believe all music is avilable.
Google Play Music and Amazon Prime aren't available. Spotify isn't available without DNS tricks, but Deezer is.
A few video streaming providers operate in SA, including the recently-launched Showmax.
They didn't.
This is users complaining about change, not about poorly planned / executed change.
You always get these types, regardless of the type of change ( upgrade, change of vendors etc.), because they don't care about business objectives or anyone /anything besides "what they are used to", regardless of the effort that was put in to prepare them for the change.
As far as I remember, their transition strategy started with deploying OpenOffice and Firefox on all Windows machines and making them the default, then removing MS Office a few months later, then switching the OS a year later while keeping most applications the same.
IOW it is almost impossible that the users didn't have a word processor available or know how to use it, or even if it was the case, thus wasn't as a result of the OS change.
Not having Skype may be due to policy (which would apply regardless of OS), in favour of other privacy-respecting IM platform.
It's impossible that Kubuntu has some bug that doesn't exist upstream?
Some KDE-centric distros are still providing KDE4 by default with KDE5 as a non-default option. Maybe Kubuntu was a bit trigger-happy?