[GTALUG] Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL

Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 15:56:13 EDT 2020


On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 11:04 AM Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Phoronix got me through some kind of puzzling stuff relatively
> unscathed. I just liked some of the more pointed comments from this
> article, like its either RPM and reboot or Flatpak from the cloud.
>

Ha, no offense meant at phoronix. It is their brand of click baity
headlines I am not a fan of. Their performance suite is something that is
useful taken in context. I just wish they would do something more
substantial and take it to the next level. You see all the great
ingredients and then the work is left as an exercise to the reader ;-).

Techrights however, I won't even bother.


> I never personally used MS much past dos 6.2. I think thats because I got
> a late start in computing and was exposed to Linux early on. I think I
> joined tlug in 95 or 96 and settled into Red Hat. So like most people, I
> poke fun at the things that scare me, like having to learn a whole new OS
> updating mechanisim. Or having to fudge rpm packages into apt updates.
>
> Cheers
>
> Russell
>
> “Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’
> banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young,
> marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable,
> buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.” F. P. Dunne
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20200805/ab5b6a7e/attachment.html>


More information about the talk mailing list