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google tells me "IBM gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2025 was $36.866B" Its not that someone writes that sort of stuff, its that it people read and think "yeah! …

> To save everybody's time: this is about straight white men making an OS for them and thus terrible for everybody else. That's not what the talk is about, that's one of the exampl…

I don't think it is a pissing context between them, they can both happily exist in the same world, it just interesting to see the difference in approach and try and figure out why …

> Mir, Unity, now Snap. Ubuntu has a track record of wanting to go it alone. This. Also bzr. They seem to want to control their projects completely and so even when they have good …

no. I don't think that was even a thing in the RHEL7 version I last did and the whole exam/course has changed a lot since then. I'm sure there are lots of places that still use vsf…

The coursebook I got as part of the training course, this was 5+ years ago so we got a physical book. I've no idea what they do these days but there's a list of exam objectives on …

To me there are a few benefits of doing exams (at least the Red Hat ones that are not cheap, but well respected): 1) it looks good on the resume, which can help you get past the in…

To be honest if the worst thing you can say about a company is they changed the distribution model of the thing they were giving you for free from point releases to rolling updates…

But to selectively quote from slightly further down TFA: > Krishna’s strategy has been focused on bolstering the company’s offerings in hybrid cloud — providing services to custome…

For Oct-Dec 2022 (according to https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q22-Earnings-Chart... ) Mainframes: $4.5 billion Consulting: $4.8 billion (even after selling off Kyndral) …

To make written English you need to take 1 part Old (Anglo-Saxon) German, 1 part old Norse, and 1 part old French, stir together for a couple of centuries, then, just as its going …

that was a discussion of a previous blog post by the same author (Mathew Garrett). Its on the same subject but this one is much longer and goes into much more detail.

Its not impossible, but it needs someone to figure out how to monetize desktop linux so they can then put the marketing effort in and pay a few companies to port big name apps such…

a million nodes running a single application is scale, but a thousand nodes running a thousand applications is also scale, and they are very different beasts. The FAANGs operate th…

A kernel module doesn't have to match the kernel version, it has to be able to resolve all the symbols (function calls, variables etc) it uses into valid symbols supplied by the ke…

# CONFIG_SECURITY_LANDLOCK is not set CONFIG_LSM="lockdown,yama,integrity,selinux,bpf" on kernel 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.aarch64 So not on ARM at least

Ansible and tmux require a lot more knowledge to be effective with than cockpit does, if you have that knowledge great, but if you have fairly low (linux) skilled first line suppor…

sesearch -A That shows the list of what labels are allowed to do what to which labels, so run ps -Z to get the label of your process and grep the sesearch output for it, and that w…

sesearch lets you query the rules on a system. sesearch -A will show you every thing that is allowed, and gives you (a lot of) lines like: allow httpd_t httpd_t:dir { getattr ioctl…

AppArmour assumes everything is allowed unless it is explicitly denied by policy, SELinux assumes everything is banned unless it is allowed by policy. This makes SELinux fundamenta…

Seconded (thirded? fourthed?) I'd also add the Information Age gallery at the Science Museum in London, which covers from the telegraph to Arm and the modern day, its aimed at a mo…

Advent Of Computing podcast ( https://adventofcomputing.com/ ) did an episode about this which is worth a listen Its episode 57 or is on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

top500.org for June 1994 lists 79 entries for Thinking Machines which is their high water mark, but it looks like most of those are CM-5s with about 20 being CM-2. So assuming some…

mainframes have hardware designed for very high IO speeds, they have no real advantage in cpu speed, but they can keep it fed with data far better than x86 servers which is what yo…