I agree, Cinnamon would have been the obvious choice. But that other article talks about that city in Germany choosing MATE too. I wonder what the impetus was for that.
I have not seen anything in as high of demand as Linux has been the last several years. Other things get more attention in the news because they are newer, flashier or more interesting to the public, but in the business space it seems that Linux is remaining the big ticket item.
Oh, well that is to be expected. You are still basically virtualizing the application. You can't reasonably ask an app to run on a non-native platform with native performance.
Yup, pretty normal. Postgres is the database. Hashing never stops, baby.
Unitrends is constantly preparing itself for need to do an autosynth, and is working on the dedup and inline hashing and everything else all the time. It's pretty normal for postsgres to be pegged.
There we go, all set. Hopefully that will help some people get started with Chef since it is basically really simple but lacking a few specific things that you "just have to know" because Opscode does not document them (a gap in the Chef 12 documents) it is very hard for no reason.
