Left CentOS about 4 years ago for Ubuntu, never looked back. Debian is a better system, Ubuntu is a very nice consistent distro. You should check out Proxmox, also debian based, very nice alternative for containers in small-medium deploys. Cheers and open-source on!
EDIT: AGAIN down voted for no good reason! Is this automatic? How does this work? Cheerio, will log off for another six months, if anybody can suggest another real hacker's forum I'd be very grateful! TIA
IBM acquires Red Hat
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Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#292Having been a linux user for 20 years now, I'm not worried. Mostly because in the OS market there is enough competition that didn't exist back in the 1990's when RedHat was founded around the Linux kernel. And we continue to have valid choices in the Linux market. And as we move forward into Kubernetes, we're looking at lightweight OS's to host a single purpose microservice. Most companies don't really need the full…
ofc you realise that one of the major contributors to the Kubernetes ecosystem is Redhat.
So IBM now control key elements of k8s setups like etcd (a CoreOS project, ergo a Redhat Project, ergo an IBM project)
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#293Interesting to see no comments praising this at all. I wonder what happened to RedHat for them to make this decision.
50% premium on stock price, or $10B+ of extra money
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#294It's like Vader asked Luke to join him in defeating the Emperor (Microsoft) and ruling the galaxy as father and son - and instead of the audience hearing "I'll never join you!!", we hear "sure, let's team up." The cognitive dissonance is so strong here. WTF just happened? If you asked me a month ago to put down serious money in Vegas on this never happening, I'd have happily done so. What on Earth were they thinking?…
As soon as I heard this news, I was looking to invest in SUSE until I found out they were just bought by a private equity firm earlier this year. What's going on with Linux providers? Is Amazon really just dominating the space?
no, but most cloud providers are not opensourcing their contributions to linux.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, 10 years down the line RHEL is pretty much guaranteed dead. Probably say goodbye to Fedora as well.
This is sad, Fedora has been my favourite distribution for a little while. Red Hat have been a good community player and it is a big loss for them to be gobbled up by IBM. What is the best alternative to Fedora and CentOS?
NixOS due to its excellent community and quality.
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#296What will happen to the parts of IBM and Red Hat which overlap? If there is competing tech which adds to IBM's bottom line then chances are that is what IBM will keep. It will be interesting to know what those areas are.
> It will be interesting to know what those areas are.
JBoss vs WAS will be a major thing where they are most directly competing. Java, especially in its EE incarnation, is not so hot on HN but massively important in the enterprise.
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#297This feels like Sears buying KMart - One ailing firm buying another in the hopes that scale will fix everything...
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#298So...how does this - if at all - impact linux (running smoothly) on thinkpads? From what i hear, beyond the normal open source contributors, numerous redhat engineers contribute towards fundamental device drivers for the thinpad platform of laptops...which, as i undestand it, why linux distros run soooo smoothly on for example my thinkpad t420. Perhaps my thought is selfish, but i love me some thinkpads - specifically because they run linux sooo nicely. So, will ibm force these guys to focus on other stuff? Or, am i worried for nothing?
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#299It's like Vader asked Luke to join him in defeating the Emperor (Microsoft) and ruling the galaxy as father and son - and instead of the audience hearing "I'll never join you!!", we hear "sure, let's team up." The cognitive dissonance is so strong here. WTF just happened? If you asked me a month ago to put down serious money in Vegas on this never happening, I'd have happily done so. What on Earth were they thinking?…
Well, at least my shares of DEBN just shot up.
Which went up because.... it's now seen as an acquisition target as well?
Edit; ah sorry I didn't know...
Re: IBM acquires Red Hat
#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm of two minds to this. I have a personal POWER6 running AIX and it handles my main hosting and mail. It's a great box and I love the hardware, but the IBM salesdroids would never talk to me (I do all my business through a VAR), and the CUoD nonsense and having to use a whole separate HMC to manage the single LPAR is obnoxious. On the other hand, I absolutely love my Talos II. It's not an IBM machine, but it's engi…
TLAs I identify: - AIX - IBM - R&D To be interpreted: - POWER* - VAR - CUoD - HMC - LPAR - OpenPOWER Conclusion: I'm not a sysadmin.
To be fair, a bunch of the latter ones are fairly specific. roughly:
POWERx: IBMs CPU architecture
VAR - value added reseller: if you're to small to talk to an enterprise vendor directly, or want a mix of stuff, you buy from them. (the "value added" bit is that ideally they sell you setup or other services in combination)
CUoD - Capacity Upgrade on Demand: IBM will sell you a server with more CPUs and memory than you paid for. If you then need more, you can buy a license key to temporarily or permanently turn on the extra hardware that's already in your server
HMC - Hardware Management Console: Terminal/interface you use to configure the server and the firmware.
LPAR - Logical PARtition: POWER systems have a hypervisor at the firmware (and to a degree hardware) level. the "virtual machines" you create on it are called LPARs.
OpenPOWER: IBMs effort to make POWER CPUs and surrounding hard- and software more open (partially sharing designs with partners, partially open sourcing)