fossrob

@fossrob@fosstodon.org

Linux professional, foss and technology enthusiast.

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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...

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
@andyprice@mastodon.social avatar

Oh hello cat you weren't there when I fell asleep

fossrob,

@andyprice 💯 😍

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

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 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

omenos, to terraform
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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!

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.

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

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

fossrob,

@jorge

bazzite-arch

...

🤯

jwildeboer, to random
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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,

@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

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.

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.

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... 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? 😔

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

fossrob,

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

sesivany, to random

The only one who loves the weather is the lawn.

fossrob,

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

itsfoss, to linux
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Curious about the systemd controversy?

Get the lowdown with our beginner's guide!

https://itsfoss.com/systemd-init/

fossrob,

@itsfoss after 13 years I really don't think systemd is controversial any more... Also, anyone deploying cloud native / containerised services these days almost certainly doesn't know or care what starts the OS services...

fedora, to fedora
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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.

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

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...

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

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

fossrob,

@ajorg I wish we could stop misattributing this freeloader thing (meaning everyone not paying is a freeloader) to RH: https://fosstodon.org/@fossrob/110642829252749236

They are not severing downstream either, they've removed a fragile legacy method of publishing source code. The code is all there in GitLab and RH is happy that people profit off of it (see the reaction to Alma).

Downstream that differentiates and contributes upstream might matter. A straight 1:1 copy purely for profit not so much IMO.

gbraad, to RedHat
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    fossrob,

    @gbraad

    The hyperscale containers are really nice and by default have all the stream repos plus EPEL?

    quay.io/centoshyperscale/centos:stream9

    @abbra

    neingeist, to random German
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    fossrob,

    @neingeist TIL about systemd-run 🫣 brilliant thanks!

    mairin, to random

    Did you know that Fedora CoreOS automatically updates by default?

    Updates must be stable since they go out automatically. It is released on a 2 week cadence.

    fossrob,

    @mairin As a silverblue user, using the oci container backend, I personally cannot wait for the developments around bootc that were touched on!! Very exciting!

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