It is an appstore for Flatpaks. Flatpaks are a universal app package for Linux that runs in a sort of containerized environment. They’re very prolific in the immutable linux world.

It’s closer to Slack, but Rocket Chat is another option.

No, even better. They could have learned from our (the US) mistakes the way Biden urged them to. Why go through what you just witnessed did not work?

They were so close…

I don’t think that misunderstanding is limited to the libs.

Another thing to note, it seems that immutable is the future of linux. The Fedora project roadmaps the Atomic desktop taking over the traditional Workstation. OpenSUSE also looks to be moving to it as the default in Leap 16. Being new to the ecosystem might be advantageous because you don’t have the old habits.

I’ve heard the argument that it isn’t genocide because Isreal doesn’t intend to destroy Palestinians. I guess their defense is that Isreal is just incredibly inept at fighting a war? I don’t buy it. How anyone can deny the genocide after the World Central Kitchen incident is beyond me.

Rosy? Star Trek said we had to go through a nuclear apocalyptic war before learning to cooperate.

The important part about this is that Vulcan doesn’t just use yet another Russian bought rocket engine. It uses BE-4, from Blue Origin. Finally, someone other than SpaceX building rockets. Too bad it’s the other out of touch billionaire with too much power and influence that is doing it.

I used one with Fedora for a while. The problem I had is whenever it would randomly disconnect, Fedora could not handle it gracefully. It would lock up the system and require a hard reboot. Windows has been a bit more graceful about things. I’m hoping the next generation or maybe oculink will be better.

I’ve been using this image with different providers for years. I would highly recommend it.

https://hub.docker.com/r/qmcgaw/ddns-updater

Ansible is my specialty. It’s kind of hard to get in the mindset of declarative after all the years of writing imperative scripts. Once you do, it’s amazing.

I’m not saying you can’t run production on it, after all RHV was based on it. What I’m saying is that it’s a run at your own risk because you can’t buy support. Some companies are okay with taking on that risk, others aren’t.

You should be automating that stuff anyway. Make a template that has the drivers installed, or write up some Ansible that does the install for you. It’s annoying, but it shouldn’t be a problem once you have an automation pipeline in place.

Well our red hat account manager said

Well, they’re wrong. It has been clearly communicated that OpenShift Virt is not a replacement for RHV. It does not do the enterprise things like having concepts of dataceners, etc… It is to help people migrate to containerization.

That’s just sales being sales. Just because you can use a hammer to drive a screw doesn’t mean it’s the right tool for the job. Which is clearly the conclusion you already came to.

red hat virt is being deprecated soon, to be replaced by ovirt which is def not prod ready

Not exactly. oVirt is the upstream open source project that Red Hat Virtualization was based on. It is never and will never be “production ready.” Because they don’t sell support for it.

Red Hat does not have a replacement for RHV. You can use OpenShift Virtualization to make virtual machines, but it’s not designed to be a replacement for RHV or a competitor to VMware. It is designed to be a stepping stone for people looking to containerize their workloads or keep that one legacy app around that can’t be containerized. You might be better served by OpenStack, but that’s an entire cloud orchestration tool, and the next version will require OpenShift to host the control plane.

Nutanix is probably the best competitor to VMware. Proxmox is another solution that would be great for small to medium businesses. SUSE’s Rancher team is working on Harvester, which could become something that competes. Honestly, there isn’t a lot of competition in this market because it’s not where growth is. People are moving to containers and kubernetes. Even VMware knows it and they are playing catch up with Tanzu.

Source: I’m a consultant for Red Hat.

It was always going to fail. At that point, Twitter as a company only recently started actually making a profit. What Musk did is called a leveraged buy-out where someone takes out a loan to buy a company. The company that is bought out is then responsible for paying that loan. Remember when I said they just barely had started making money? Well, now they have so much debt that they not only have to make enough money to cover their previous expenses, but also cover the payments for this new loan, and the new loan has interest that creates additional debt of $1 billion a year. How is a company that struggles to make money suddenly going to come up with an extra $1 billion a year? Charging for checkmarks? There aren’t enough users… That’s why he is so desperate. He knows that by making that joke offer, he royally screwed himself when Twitter called his bluff and forced him to buy. I think he just wanted an excuse to sell some Tesla stock that he knew was overvalued but had said he wouldn’t sell.

It can’t afford its debt. It’s almost guaranteed to happen.

I was just adding context to the Fedora part of your statement. Honestly, Fedora has some work to do in order to really leverage it fully. When they fully integrate snapper, or something like it, then it will be actually using the benefits of btrfs imo.

Pigeonholed on Linux because of the incompatible license. It can’t be a part of the kernel. No technical reason it can’t, only legal reasons it can’t.

Fedora adopted it as default with Fedora 33. SUSE has been using it as default for many years now. Facebook is one of the largest users and contributors to btrfs. It’s a solid filesystem when it’s not used to do things it warns you not to do.