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16·15 days agoThanks for the meme! This is why I always use BIOS fan control. I already did way before I started using Linux on the desktop.
Those Corsair/Gigabyte/ASUS/etc programs are heavy, probably full of security holes, can come at the cost of gaming performance and soft-lock you into a vendor: you’ll have to set up or tune again if you buy a different brand.
BIOS fan control all the way!
6·28 days agoFedora isn’t, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is.
The paid Linux for companies that want a support contract.
Open source upstream is much newer, and doesn’t have the bloat that Red Hat adds to Enterprise products.
This goes for:
Fedora -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Kubernetes -> OpenShift
Ansible -> Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
And probably others I don’t know.
Point is, no one is buying the whole Red Hat Enterprise suite because they personally like Fedora.
They’re buying it because someone somewhere in the org is (rightfully or not) too afraid to run open source software without being able to call in support from a company that knows how it works very well.
“The company behind Fedora” is Red Hat.
Red Hat is a huge provider of Enterprise products, from Linux (RHEL, based on Fedora) to Kubernetes (OpenShift) and Ansible (RHAAP).
The Red Hat Enterprise products all kind of suck compared to the upstream open source projects, but they often have a GUI. Think of it as “Ansible for dummies” or “Kubernetes for dummies”.
Every homelabber worth their salt knows this, and I don’t think Red Hat gets a lot of sales because people like Fedora.
In short: I would be very surprised if Red Hat were sponsoring videos about Fedora, let alone IBM.
I think you are confusing a license to use “enterprise edition” yourself, with a “license to provide the product (as a service) to customers”, as is required under SSPL.
SSPL is not AGPL: you can never be sure you comply with “or make your code available” due to the way this is worded. Please read https://www.ssplisbad.com/ before arguing that it is the same as AGPL.
That’s how they’re trying to sell it. But why did Elastic and Redis drop SSPL if it was so good, and why did OSI not accept it as open source? The answers are here but the TLDR is that SSPL is vague and, as a consequence, makes it risky to provide a service with the product, unless you are large enough to make a big lucrative deal with the owner of the product.
This stifles competition and innovation.
Case in point: Mongo DBAs are nearly non-existent outside California and managed MongoDB is much more expensive than managed PostgreSQL/MariaDB services, because it is only offered by 3 providers.
Saying you are “MongoDB compatible” is IP violation?
Meanwhile they are still actively opposing the creation of an open document database standard, which would make it unnecessary to use their brand name to indicate compatibility.
They also sent Peter a “Cease And Desist” for saying MongoDB is not open source. They themselves retracted the SSPL from the OSI when it became clear it would be rejected because it is not open source.
Wonder how much 💩 is in their heads for not realizing everyone gave up on SSPL, and that Postgres is thriving because of the permissive license: even the tiniest local managed services providers have a Postgresql service, there’s tons of DBA talent available, and due to the competition in managed services, a managed postgres is much cheaper than managed MongoDB.
They’ll keep shooting themselves in the foot until someone else puts a lead shoe on it.
Shoutout to FerretDB doing God’s work.
Putting data from apps that were built for MongoDB into Postgres.
https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB
And their lived experience trying to help the MongoDB ecosystem by building an open standard for document databases:
In 2021, we founded FerretDB with a bold vision: to return the document database market to its open source roots by creating the leading open source alternative to MongoDB, built on Postgres.
For years, we tirelessly advocated for an open standard. We built a popular product, collaborated with Microsoft to open source DocumentDB, and held high-level meetings with cloud providers and stakeholders to make the case for a standard that is similar to SQL, but for document databases.
In 2023, a MongoDB VP reached out to me. On a Zoom call, we were threatened with a lawsuit for building a compatible product. Being called a thief by a leader of a (then) $35B company was a moment of stark clarity on MongoDB’s opinion about our work and the need for a standard. At the end of that call, I told them the industry would inevitably come together to create the open standard they refused to provide.
Their response? “They would never do that. They are our trusted partners.”
Today, the market has spoken. The Linux Foundation has announced the adoption of the DocumentDB project [1] to create an open standard with MongoDB compatibility, the exact thing we were sued for earlier this year. [2]
This is a monumental win for developers and enterprises everywhere. It validates the years of work we’ve poured into this mission.
It is also telling that MongoDB’s SSPL license has been abandoned by Elastic or Redis, the two prominent companies who were initially in favor of MongoDB’s attempt to redefine open source. All clear signs that MongoDB’s behavior is not appreciated by developers. […]
Disclaimer: I haven’t tried it in a while so I can’t speak to the current quality of COSMIC and Pop!_OS 24.04
But no, I am not surprised it’s taken them this long. They started almost from scratch, made an entire Desktop Environment basically from scratch, using only the basic Iced for rendering and building their own equivalent of GTK/Qt. Libcosmic is massive undertaking and I have been worried about them.
But it has enormous potential: they know how to do tiling and styling very well, and Rust makes it hard not to write secure performant code.
I admire their bravery and perseverance and have faith that COSMIC will eventually be amazing.
And I’ll buy my next laptop from them to support them.
Cause systemd is pretty amazing 😎
<Jumps behind cover>
Virtualbox is VMs. This is containers.
Containers are better, especially for a desktop: they are smaller, faster in every sense, and don’t permanently hog a fixed part of the resources, instead scaling dynamically, just like any other process on the host.
And Alpine, the one @Sxan started with.
Alpine has apk, and is (or it should be) the most used base for container images. It is very small, smaller than Debian, so containers built on it are secure and performant.
If you’ve never worked with Docker/Podman/OCI containers, you’ve been missing a lot of good stuff, and you may have heard of Alpine via the amazing “I use Linux as my operating system” copypasta:
“I use Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.” The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won’t be for long.” With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.
You are absolutely right. Baffles me why they’d put 128GB of RAM in there and use an SoC arhitecture where RAM is shared with GPU, to the detriment of upgradability, if not for AI.
Any gamer would prefer upgradable RAM and upgradable GPU, especially from Framework.
How else would you explain this decision to compromise their brand values and overspend on RAM, if not AI?
For gaming, yes.
But the Framework Desktop seems to be made for a different usecase:
128GB of unified RAM
Unified means both CPU and GPU have access to it. Why would you need so much RAM and why would you care if the GPU has direct access?
Neural Networks. You can fit a pretty serious LLM into 128GB of RAM, and if GPU has direct access, still run inference at reasonable performance.
I love my 9070XT, but you can’t run anything approaching what Claude or ChatGPT gives you in just 16GB of VRAM
/etc/systemd/system/mnt-nfs.mount
[Unit] Description=Mount NFS Share [Mount] What=server:exported_path Where=/mnt/nfs_share Type=nfs Options=_netdev,auto,rw [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
SmartMux looks cool! Any clue already what that means for ASUS dual-AMD users who currently use supergfxctl?
Will supergfxctl not be necessary anymore? Or is the MUX switch a separate thing from powering down the dGPU to save energy?
Maintenance and security support has ended for Ubuntu 20.04. Are you or is your employer paying for Extended Support?
If not, your setup is about to enable a whole lot of other people to do their job too 😉
No need to get on the latest, hopping over to a just over 3 years old version of Ubuntu is enough to get security patches again.
Genuinely great blog post!
This is perfect for !linuxmemes@lemmy.world though: “nah I don’t want to switch to Linux, it’s hard. I’ll just compile QEMU with some patches to run VMs on Windows”
How does this compare to parui? It looks like a very similar workflow, but it seems to have more features