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Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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See, no self hosting possible anymore.

But this is the opposite of the principles Linux has been built on. How can Canonical hope Snap gains popularity if the very software powering up the Snapstore is closed?

I don't care since i don't use *buntu. But they are not what i would call an OpenSource Company...lots of closesource-selfmade software like Juju and Snapstore.

Re: Ubuntu 21.04

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The problem is that GPOs are really a terrible way to do configuration, and people (like myself) who grew up on them simply were Stockholm'd into accepting them. The moment you learn about things like Ansible, and then ask "wait, what if I want to programatically make GPOs"-- and try to do so-- you realize just how horrendously bad they are. Their permissions inheritance is terrible, so trying to do least-privelege /…

"GPOs is the worst form of policy management, except for all the others." I've yet to see something as comprehensive, navigable, and flexible. Sure, it can be horrendously complicated, especially if you chose not to clean up the old mess, but it's still... basically better than everything else.

Novell had it 20 years ago. Zenworks!
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