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One day someone untrustworthy will be in charge of the FSF, and ‘or later’ is suddenly going to be #awkward. Linus made the right call there, for sure.

Wait, stop. LXD was conceived at Canonical, and not by anyone driving this fork. It was funded by Canonical, quite separately from LXC. The tech lead asked for and got permission t…

I think you’ve got it the wrong way around. They can only make these patches because large enterprises wanted them and were willing to pay for them, and they have found a nice way …

You get a free personal subscription which can be used on up to 5 machines that you personally own. Canonical are letting home users, community, power users and small businesses be…

Several commenters here say they have fewer bugs with MicroK8s, makes sense since it’s less of a modification than k3s. Slightly bigger since it keeps api and worker processes as s…

The new format does seem much nicer to my eyes but I suppose tastes vary. A pain to have to change but it looks like good work and a new release is usually required some pressed Ha…

It’s easy enough to configure motd to pull your own notices for a company, and useful too. Nothing there seems particularly weird to me in this day and age, and Ubuntu has a much b…

The database in question, dqlite, is raft-around-sqlite, and that’s just about the most widely used sql database anywhere, albeit pretty thin. Recovering files on disk won’t be an …

Just defer updates and do them when it suits you

K8s is sophisticated software that offers a wide range of options because people want to use it in a wide range of scenarios. But you probably don’t need most of those options. Sta…

Snaps with a reasonable rationale for it can be unconfined (they require the user to acknowledge that with —classic on install). Think a config management system, which needs to be…