I know, I shouldn't reply to trolls, but, there is nothing wrong with X11. GNOME might be broken yes, but X11 is a perfectly fine display protocol. It's a shame that X.org is the only surviving X server (I'm still using XSGI here! It's awesome!)
Systemd is a pain in my side as an admin, and when I do help with open source software systemd isn't a concern of mine - Linux isn't my only target when it comes to software, it's Unix compatibility in general (actually, Linux compatibility isn't my main concern anymore either).
To be honest, and Unix implement is an alternative. I have systems at home running Solaris (8-10), IRIX (6.5.29), and OS X (10.4 and 10.5 on PPC, 10.6 and 10.7 on Intel); I used to use HP-UX and AIX, and I've got a bit of FreeBSD experience at this point too. It's the Linux crowd that really likes to piss off its users.
Sadly, I don't think systemd is going away anytime soon. The biggest voice behind it (Red Hat) effectively controls the "GNU/Linux" world. The kernel is on a completely different level - it is the base that everything else (including systemd) builds around, and non-GNU Linux versions (like Android) will receive these features.
They could, but why bother? The CDDL is an OSI Approved license, just like GPL and BSD licenses are. It's already open source, just not GNU's open source.
Yes and no. I think GNOME, while it is technically a GNU project, answers to the GNOME foundation rather then GNU these days, and most of the developers working on GNOME work for Red Hat.
I'm not sure that I would call Adobe products 'easy to learn' - I learned how to use Photoshop and Pagemaker while I was in school (running on System 7.....wow that was a long time ago). When I got into GIMP I bought a book (just like I have/had books on using Windows desktop, Linux desktop, Sharepoint, Drupal, etc; from across the years of adding new skills) to guide me,
Even if you are not in the biz, the Drupal update page even tells you not to just upgrade. What does it say to do? Take your site offline, make a backup, and then run the upgrade process and check for errors. Yes, there is a certain level of knowledge required to run Drupal. I didn't find Sharepoint to be much simpler when I worked with that to be perfectly honest (the Drupal site I used to admin still pays me to do updates, a couple years later. The Sharepoint site that I am in charge of...the update status scares me sometimes.
For the record, I don't have a git repo for Drupal either. I usually create a full backup of the files, modules, and database before updating (and my personal system at home I get to use snapshots for testing)
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Only if you're stuck on Linux. Many of us quite enjoy working with a variety Unix environments, and there is no systemd here either!
Isn't he a Red Hat employee?
Ubuntu supported architectures list says that it easily could be IBM servers - the P-series boxes are pretty powerful machines.
Probably not 90% - think of how many Macs, iPads, iPhones, iPods, Droid phones and Droid tablets are out there....
No coins. Just bragging rights.
Oddly enough in every case that I run my i5-3570K is much faster then my FX-8120.
I know, I shouldn't reply to trolls, but, there is nothing wrong with X11. GNOME might be broken yes, but X11 is a perfectly fine display protocol. It's a shame that X.org is the only surviving X server (I'm still using XSGI here! It's awesome!)
I've got GRUB set to not use the quiet or RHGB options, but then again I'm still using GRUB 1 so that I can configure it.
Considering that Fedora was the first to shove sytemd down everyone's throats and is still its biggest backer, dream on.
I bought one of the cheep ones from Amazon about two years ago. I get maybe 30m of life out of it.
I've still got a Thinkpad 600e that I use as a thin client and serial console. What I wouldn't give to have modern hardware in that chassis.
Well damn. I should have kept some of them then....
Ah, SGI machines. I have an Octane (1997) at home that I use on a regular basis. Quite a bit of that 90s HW is still usable.
Isn't that the application's responsibility?
I would think the goalshould be to get people to do something to actually help rather then just blog about it
Systemd is a pain in my side as an admin, and when I do help with open source software systemd isn't a concern of mine - Linux isn't my only target when it comes to software, it's Unix compatibility in general (actually, Linux compatibility isn't my main concern anymore either).
To be honest, and Unix implement is an alternative. I have systems at home running Solaris (8-10), IRIX (6.5.29), and OS X (10.4 and 10.5 on PPC, 10.6 and 10.7 on Intel); I used to use HP-UX and AIX, and I've got a bit of FreeBSD experience at this point too. It's the Linux crowd that really likes to piss off its users.
I look at log files almost daily, especially when something goes wrong.
Only if you are using certain versions of one particular boot loader - which many of us never were using.
Sadly, I don't think systemd is going away anytime soon. The biggest voice behind it (Red Hat) effectively controls the "GNU/Linux" world. The kernel is on a completely different level - it is the base that everything else (including systemd) builds around, and non-GNU Linux versions (like Android) will receive these features.
They could, but why bother? The CDDL is an OSI Approved license, just like GPL and BSD licenses are. It's already open source, just not GNU's open source.
Yes and no. I think GNOME, while it is technically a GNU project, answers to the GNOME foundation rather then GNU these days, and most of the developers working on GNOME work for Red Hat.
I'm not sure that I would call Adobe products 'easy to learn' - I learned how to use Photoshop and Pagemaker while I was in school (running on System 7.....wow that was a long time ago). When I got into GIMP I bought a book (just like I have/had books on using Windows desktop, Linux desktop, Sharepoint, Drupal, etc; from across the years of adding new skills) to guide me,
Why do they need to donate? It's just the GPL that causes issues. FreeBSD and OpenIndiana ship ZFS just fine.
Even if you are not in the biz, the Drupal update page even tells you not to just upgrade. What does it say to do? Take your site offline, make a backup, and then run the upgrade process and check for errors. Yes, there is a certain level of knowledge required to run Drupal. I didn't find Sharepoint to be much simpler when I worked with that to be perfectly honest (the Drupal site I used to admin still pays me to do updates, a couple years later. The Sharepoint site that I am in charge of...the update status scares me sometimes.
For the record, I don't have a git repo for Drupal either. I usually create a full backup of the files, modules, and database before updating (and my personal system at home I get to use snapshots for testing)