Kind of interesting, handy to have a simple way to get real RHEL, I guess.

@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 17.10 Released:

@brandon220 said in Ubuntu 17.10 Released:

@tim_g I thought about it but have never used one so I was hesitant to purchase even though they are "cheap".

I would love to do daily driver stuff on Linux but every time I read on ML, I want to try a different OS. Seems as if there is a new favorite flavor every week....like Korora was for a while.

Korora is nice but there distro releases is slow. You will always be one version behind Fedora. That's my biggest reason to stick with Fedora instead.

Yeah, that killed it for a lot of us.

The Linux world is complex enough for normal users. BSD just pushed them that much farther over the edge.

@strongbad said in ARM RISC Linux Laptop Released from TERES-I:

Of course, for that price and specs, you could just get a Chromebook and put Linux on it.

Oh yeah, that makes more sense. LOL.

@scottalanmiller said in macOS 10.13 High Sierra Coming with APFS Filesystem:

So for those using APFS, how is it looking now that you've had a few weeks with it?

Nothing noticeably different.

@aaronstuder said in LXC 2.1 Containers Releases:

@mlnews said in LXC 2.1 Containers Releases:

Not an LTS release.

But does it matter?

It does if you are a person that wants LTS (e.g. you hate keeping your systems up to date) and like run Ubuntu LTS, and want to update LXC and this would cause an LTS conflict.

@marcinozga said in Reiser4 Update for Linux:

Um, I don't know how I really feel about it. Reiser was mediocre file system to begin with, XFS was much better in every possible use case, and still is. If anything, they should rename the damn thing, having a name after murderer is never a good thing.

ReiserFS was really great at handling massive numbers of tiny files. That was its strong suit. It was good enough that Suse used it by default.

@scottalanmiller said in Chrome 61 to Include WebUSB:

d RS232 without the users knowing. There is no user interaction at all for our app that has been doing this since NT4 and has

As long as this works similar to how access to things on the iPhone work, I'm OK with this.

I heard that Solus plans to move from GTK to QT sometime soon. Is that in this release?

@coliver said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@nerdydad said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@mlnews said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

ReactOS, the open source recreation of Windows NT

Why? If you haven't moved passed NT by now, its about time to just wipe the slate clean and start all over because the time and money you're going to spend trying to upgrade everything to the latest and greatest is going to be absurd.

All modern Windows systems are built on top of Windows NT. Windows 10 is on NT version 10.

Yep. Kernel changes very little. All the other stuff that you actually interact with changes lots.

It's neat because it is a rare test where basically only the kernel is different. So you really get to see Linux vs. NTKernel rather than artefacts of the entire stack.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-gnu-linux-9-1-stretch-and-debian-8-9-jessie-officially-released-517107.shtml

@scottalanmiller said in IBM z 14 Mainframe Released:

@travisdh1 said in IBM z 14 Mainframe Released:

@mlnews Sometimes you just have to wonder about marketing guys "New secure services with Java". Javascript maybe, but Java? That on top of the whole encryption thing, really people.

I'm sure they're amazing, just wish I had a need for one!

Actually Mainframes run insane amounts of traditional Java. Because Java is what replaced COBOL in financial applications and because mainframes are focused primarily on financial workloads, it's a very big deal there.

Ah. That'd explain it then. I'll grant that I'd rather deal with JAVA than COBOL!