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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I thought it was naive as well, but because they based it on a mayfly distro that has really great validation and reliability but it’s gone in a fortnight.

    Wither Almalinix or Cloudlinux or PCLinuxOS or Mandriva? Three of them have really solid support structures and at least one of them has amazing compatibility options with libraries for services.

    There are options. A few of them could be better than fedora while fedora is still owned by redhat as redhat dies from suffocation – hell, its all just fucking ancillary bull (Ansible) they sell now, as its metastatic cancer (Systemd) eats it alive.







  • If you have one federal agency, you can move it around to deal with whatever is at issue.

    Consolidation itself brings funding benefits too.

    Remember during covid when states were fighting with hospitals, who were fighting other hospitals and other states, for PPE? When it got scarce, fucking surgical masks needed an armed escort and seemingly disappeared from dockyards anyway. This will be your water, your fuel, your air support during the next katrina or paradise fire or Kentucky flood like this year, because agencies will be fighting to keep contracts by scarce providers selling to the highest bidder – all managed by first-timer contractors hired FOR an event but let go in the intervening 3 years.



  • I am one of these people.

    Last I used the desktop was 1996: modelines, xfree86 errors, etc. Not since. I’ve used Linux every day of the last 30 years, 28 as a pro. It’s fed me, housed me, delighted me and frustrated me.

    But even when I worked at a distro that shipped two Unix variants and an Enterprise Linux distro of its own, everyone at the shop was on windows 98se and vandyke for ssh. It was simply more reliable for the tiny use case and the time : we didn’t want Devel upended because the team had a crashing wm, and our use case was Mozilla, VanDyke, WinAMP. Really-really.

    Do I understand it’s improved since then? Of course. Do I want to support my mom running Linux desktop or run it myself? The thought frightens me to my core. I don’t have time in my day for the added hassle when we just need SeaMonkey, zoom, and (for me) putty and WoW.

    But win10 is dying, and ImTiredBoss.jpg of learning the shit of a new MS desktop every goddamned time so I can coach them over the phone as their eyesight and hearing declines like my patience. This year stands a good chance of seeing my return to a Linux desktop and theirs too.

    Wow works, right?