fossrob

@fossrob@fosstodon.org

Linux professional, foss and technology enthusiast.

Dog dad 🐕️ and feline 🐈️ fosterer.

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securepaul, to random
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On August 8, 2003 Linux v2.6.0-test3 was released and included the first release of SELinux in an upstream Linux kernel. Happy 20th birthday SELinux!

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/pre-releases/ChangeLog-2.6.0-test3

#selinux

fossrob,

@securepaul so I've had 20 years to go beyond SELINUX=disabled damn 😳🫣

fossrob, to RedHat

To anyone upset because they think RH are calling them freeloaders. Genuinely if this example from Mike's LinkedIn post doesn't ring somewhat true to you then it's really not about you.

"A freeloader is when a large enterprise business has 20 RHEL licenses, 150,000 community rebuild systems, and sometimes hundreds of user accounts and hundreds of kbase searches per month."

FULL screenshot and ALT text attached for: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mrmikemcgrath_just-some-further-thoughts-on-this-week-activity-7080644263968997376-vrGA

#redhat

fossrob, to RedHat

https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-software-an-old-maddogs-view/

"An old maddog’s view" on #redhat #ibm #opensource #rhel #clonewars

"Red Hat and IBM are making their sources available to all those who receive their binaries under contract. That is the GPL."

fossrob, to RedHat

https://openmetal.io/resources/blog/open-letter-to-redhat-on-centos-damage-to-your-brand-and-another-route-to-revenue/

As much as I appreciate and I do strongly agree that the limitations on the $349/year self support server option are... bollocks. It wasn't always like that.

Only suitable for dev / test, but cannot be used as a virtual machine? What? Who's running their dev and test servers on bare metal in 2023?! 🤦‍♂️

CentOS Stream is now a good option instead I guess but pretty sure this would've pushed at least some to use a rebuild 🤔

fossrob, to RedHat

https://linuxunplugged.com/517

Ah man, what a pleasure it was to listen to this. It's a very different issue when you can take into context the whole story, see the big picture and look deeper than the headlines and FUD.

Also @carlwgeorge calling it like it is and not holding back the #hardtruths is 🤌🏻

#redhat #opensource #linuxunplugged

fossrob, to RedHat

FWIW much love to all the having a tough time (again). Not all of us are part of the pitch fork wielding mob 😔

Appreciate you 💖

@carlwgeorge @Conan_Kudo @itguyeric @omenos

fossrob, to linux

As someone who started with the family 386 in 1989, I have to marvel sometimes at what we have with Linux today.

In the early 90s the choice was: pay for Windows or pirate it. Linux existed (barely) but was not exactly a daily driver for a high school kid.

Now not only do we have everything an individual could possibly need but also arguably everything a small company probably needs, in an almost limitless OS, all available free of cost.

What a time to be alive.

#linux #opensource #positive

jwildeboer, to random
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net avatar

SUSE, who now has a CEO that comes from Red Hat, joins forces with Oracle and QIC to produce yet another supposed Red Hat clone instead of promoting their own product. I can only chuckle at this announcement. Get the real deal. Get RHEL. https://www.suse.com/news/OpenELA-for-a-Collaborative-and-Open-Future/

fossrob,

@jwildeboer @major it's honestly incredible what you can achieve without spending a penny. Only thing I'd change is the lifespan of CentOS Stream. Let it tick over in maintenance for the full 10Y.

There's already almost no reason to use a clone over CS, but that's the one reason one might still. Personally I think you should ideally be using RHEL at that point but lots won't.

fossrob,

@mattb

"Founding principles:

Collaboration: Collaboration is a fundamental aspect of the foundation. All members and users will work together, share knowledge, and collaborate on shared infrastructure and resources. Everyone is welcome to take an active role, participate and contribute."

Last sentence though: "Contributions and involvement in the community may determine one’s influence and responsibilities."

lol

@jwildeboer

sesivany, to random

The only one who loves the weather is the lawn.

fossrob,

@sesivany THAT... is a good looking lawn though 🙌🏻

fedora, to fedora

So, what does Red Hat want to do with Fedora and @centos? It's an important question, and one that @bexelbie will tackle in our first keynote.
#Fedora #FlockToFedora #FlockIreland #RedHat #RHEL

Watch live: https://flock2023.sched.com/event/1Or66/keynote-what-does-red-hat-want

fossrob,

@bookwar @AliveDevil @fedora https://www.youtube.com/live/bD2R4Yt8m88?feature=share&t=3178

t=3178 specifically for the Red Hat keynote (which I thought was great) from @bexelbie

omenos, to terraform
@omenos@fosstodon.org avatar

As a result of the #HashiCorp licensing change, all utilities from them in my #COPR will be frozen at their latest version.

Based on the Not-Allowed license list for @fedora the Business Source License (BUSL-1.1) is strictly forbidden. As COPR requires compliance with Fedora guidelines, there's not much I can do here.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/not-allowed-licenses/

fossrob,

@travis @omenos @fedora

"Showing 1 to 10 of 129 entries" - yikes!

jorge, to linux
@jorge@hachyderm.io avatar

Alright, time to get focused on the two use cases for Bluefin:

https://www.ypsidanger.com/chromebook-alternative/

#linux

fossrob,

@jorge

bazzite-arch

...

🤯

fossrob, to RedHat

This season of Everybody Hates #RedHat wasn't great to start with but really jumped the shark this week 🫣

#linux

jorge, to random
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Please @thelinuxEXP ping me next time.

We can't move forward with incorrect information. 😩

fossrob,

@jorge 💯 this. What "basic" user is installing realtek drivers on Linux off of GitHub? That has nothing to do with whether the distro is immutable or not...

@Conan_Kudo @thelinuxEXP @frigidcode

lasombra_br, to random
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Well, this happened...

https://www.suse.com/news/OpenELA-for-a-Collaborative-and-Open-Future/

Oracle + SuSE + CIQ. This will be interesting.

fossrob,

@lasombra_br On brand for CiQ and Oracle, though I did think SuSE had grown since the Novell days... #unitedlinux again 😔🤦

fossrob,

@lasombra_br oh wasn't aware, but how do you mean they're working how they know to work?

fossrob,

@lasombra_br in developing OpenSuSE and SLE I'd think that's a good thing. But I mean, this "banding together with other competitors to allow everyone to easily clone RHEL" isn't something I imagine RH doing 😔

Make SuSE better why all this effort to go after RH? 😔

maxamillion, to random
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Proxmox is underrated.

fossrob,

@maxamillion

"a good solid distro that nobody's grumpy about"

That's actually a momentous achievement TBF 😊

Go Debian!

jdheyburn, to random

Big thanks to @ironicbadger for the article on #Tailscale SplitDNS! It had the right steps for me to get over the last hump I had with getting services advertised on my tailnet! 💻

Will make sure a coffee is coming your way, once I'm next to my wallet <3

https://blog.ktz.me/splitdns-magic-with-tailscale/

fossrob,

@ironicbadger @jdheyburn the office vpn allows split tunneling with openvpn, but when connected would use the work dns for everything by default. I use this with tailscale now so that only my work dns domain is resolved by the work dns while everything else on my tailnet does not. And it's so easy it really is magic!

fossrob,

@jdheyburn

Yeah added the work DNS with "Split DNS" for "workdomain.com", the machine at work advertises the work subnets and everthing works. It's in lieu of the OpenVPN though so don't use them both together.

@ironicbadger

carlwgeorge, to random
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I'll be honest, seeing CIQ and SUSE voluntarily associate themselves with Oracle puts a big ol' grin on my face.

fossrob,

@carlwgeorge what an actual joke: https://openela.org/about/

All the flowery nonsense claiming it's about "community" and "collaboration" when literally the mission is to provide everything you need to clone RHEL 1:1 (and then undercut RH on support), including a "branding kit" for goodness sake!

No innovation, no improvement, no contribution back upstream, just a bug for bug copy of RHEL. Could spend all that money and effort on differentiating their own products but hey.

fossrob, to random

Plus one to this. My wife is immunocompromised so on her 7th vaccination! I had my 3rd almost 2 years ago now and really wouldn't mind paying a small fee for a booster...

omenos, to sysadmin
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Can we get all the hardware vendors together in a room and force them to agree that changing boot order preferences in a UEFI environment was absolutely a terrible decision?

I mean, it's not like we reimage servers after deployment or anything. And it's inconceivable that we would ever want to consistently PXE boot after installation and check if there's a configuration change set up for a system... /s

At least the Foreman devs put in a quick fix...

#sysadmin #uefi #pxe #lifecycle #foreman

fossrob,

@omenos yeah have run into this... We want to PXE boot every time: handy to trigger large groups of hosts to reimage. What's foreman's workaround?

andyprice, to random
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Oh hello cat you weren't there when I fell asleep

fossrob,

@andyprice 💯 😍

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