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Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
by Russell Reiter 08 Aug '20

08 Aug '20

This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the internal chaos thats leading up to this. "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan noted. It says it right there. That may explain quite a lot, not just about RHEL’s direction but also Fedora’s. We see more vendor tie-in/lock-in, more software patents (monopoly) and not much of real value." IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn’t Even Using GNU/Linux | Techrights http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/red-hat-layoffs/ Russell

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Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
by Russell Reiter 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Sorry but it would be helpful if offlist responses were labeled and trimmed post's were noted, just for the sake of lessing confustion, if anything else. For some reson my MTA missed a response post to the list and this one is not labeled offlist, that part is kind of an informal protocol as I recall. Sorry I'm a little confused, are you saying that skepticism about IBM's > intentions is not the same as skepticism about Redmond's, simply because > that it would be conspiracy theory to suggest that IBM would not tell > everybody about the eventual business plan, at the same time. > I'm saying that I don't trust the source -- based on crackpot comments from the past, bolstered by recent conversations with RH employees saying the claims were utter shit. - Evan -- Russell

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Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
by Russell Reiter 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:44 AM Evan Leibovitch <evan(a)telly.org> wrote: > I've spoken to some actual Red Hat employees who they said the article has > been widely circulated and has served as a good laugh. No booms are being > lowered that they're aware of and morale remains decent. > > I'm wary of the source based on Dr. Ray's previous articles.He's obsessed > with Microsoft (such as an article that claims Richard Stallman's > successor at the FSF is a Microsoft stooge > <http://techrights.org/2020/08/06/fsf-microsoft-github/>) and the site > has an ongoing series called "Billwatch > <http://techrights.org/billwatch-resurrected/>". Another recent example > is an article headlined > "People Who Believe Global Warning is a ‘Hoax’ Are the Types Who Might > Think Microsoft Really Loves Linux > <http://techrights.org/2020/07/31/the-microsoft-hoax/>". > > Anyway, you get the idea. Healthy skepticism about Redmond's intentions > are healthy, but not when pushed to conspiracy-theory levels. And now the > same treatment is being applied to IBM. > Sorry I'm a little confused, are you saying that skepticism about IBM's intentions is not the same as skepticism about Redmond's, simply because that it would be conspiracy theory to suggest that IBM would not tell everybody about the eventual business plan, at the same time. Whatever Dr. Roy has written previously, he did mention in the article it takes a couple of years for each departmental shakeup. In my understanding of this it usually takes quite some time before all departments are fully shook. Kind of like government that way. > > Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada > @evanleibovitch / @el56 > > -- Russell -- Russell

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DSL to wifi
by Astrid R 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

Hello, I'm just looking for someone in downtown Toronto to change the settings on my laptop from DSL to wifi. I can only pay up to $40. I could meet anywhere public roughly between Ossington, Broadview, Bloor and the lake, weather permitting. If the restrictions would make this impossible then it will have to be in the hallway of my apartment building near Cabbagetown. Thanks.

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OpenEmbedded Happy Hours
by Nicholas Krause 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

Greetings All, Hopefully everyone is staying safe. The OpenEmbedded project seems to be having happy hours every few weeks or once a month going forward. This also will include people on the Yocto Project side as well. Here is a link to the calendar page: https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Calendar The next one is tomorrow so sorry if this is late for that. However the next seems to be on the 26th of August at 5pm, I've not checked which time zone there using through. It may interest some people here to intend particularly if your in the embedded space or are interested in the ARM embedded ecosystem. Take care and stay safe, Nick -- Fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism. - Thomas Nagel

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urgent: Red Hat distros have an update that renders some systems unbootable
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-bo… Don't do upgrades to Fedora, RHEL, CentOS until you read those. This seems to have bitten me, making one of my routers (running CentOS 7). I'm still not sure if this is what has happened to my system. The symptoms looked like an SSD failure: nothing past POST on the screen. So I spent a fair bit of time trying to work around the loss. Now that I've seen this error report, I will redirect my efforts

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