LeFantome

Yes please. 2013 MacBook Pro? I use a 2013 MacBook Air every day. I am sure your MacBook Pro is much better.

They are selling them. Look into ESU (Extended Security Updates).

$30 a year.

I was for many of us. So, they were not totally wrong.

Even those distros are only possible if you arbitrarily decide the firmware is not software. If you want to be more honest about having free software all way down, you have to avoid AMD and Intel CPUs at the very least and most GPUs too. And, if you are not going to do that, why fuss about the BIOS?

Unless you are using a totally Free Software stack on on Open Source CPU with an Open Source ISA, it is just a question of where you draw the line between convenience and “principles”.

There are truly Open Source RISC-V CPUs. It could be done. That is not what those “libre” distros are doing.

Since none of us are using a 100% free stack, I think distros like Debian strike the right balance between “free” and “useful”.

If you do not want to use software written by Red Hat, you have to stop using Linux. Quite frankly also much of the GNU suite such as Glibc and GCC. You would absolutely have to stop using either Xorg or Wayland. Systemd is just an example of something Red Hat created but they are massive contributors to a lot of other surf too.

I you want to avoid software written by profit motivated companies, you are down to about 15% of the open source ecosystem.

Correct.

There is also iFuse and iMobileDevice

Very impressive. The M1 Macs at least seem to be quite functional at this point and everything either has been or is in the process of hitting the mainline.

Lots of work to do of course but many would have bet against getting this far. But there is a big difference between “could be better” and “stuff doesn’t work”. Getting the Rust based GPU driver into the kernel is a major achievement on its own and may do a lot to silence the “Rust isn’t used for anything real in the kernel” crowd as well.

With all the recent drama, I think some assumed the project was on the ropes. But the updates on the M2 and the reduced support burden of their past work leave me pretty hopeful that good progress will continue.

That works.

To my ear though, “Linux based” leans too much towards the kernel. It makes me want to ask “what do you mean”.

I prefer “Linux distribution” or just Linux distro. If I was asked what that meant, I would simply have to say that Linux is available from different groups each of which curates slightly different collections of software which they “distribute”. Nobody needs to knew what a kernel is to understand that explanation.

I mean, I just say Linux. But when I do feel the need to distinguish, Linux distro and Linux kernel works for me.

If just saying Linux confuses you, just say Linux distro and / or Linux kernel explicitly.

To me, Linux means Linux distro unless further clarification or comedy is given. If you mean the kernel, you should always say so—the Linux kernel.

Non-technical users have no idea what the kernel is and you are not going to talk to them about it. So, when you say Linux they think Linux distro. It is not confusing unless we make it that way.

I would drive across Canada to vote against PP and i have nothing good to say about any of the landlords I have had.

It is a bloody miracle how completely you have convinced me that they are all better people than you.

Somebody mentions children and these are the words you puke out?

Making PP move out would be hilarious. Shitting on kids to get what you want is not.

With Liberty Linux and OpenELA, a key SuSE strategy is supporting customers that are using competing Linux distros.

Moving to more standard tooling like Ansible and Cockpit positions them to support these mixed environments better. It also makes it easier to turn a RHEL customer that adopts Liberty Linux for support into a pure SLE customer later on.

Overall, it seems like a reasonable strategy. I know YaST has fans but it does not seem like many people were ditching other distros for the chance to use it. The engineering resources spent on YaST may be more productively used elsewhere.

Moved my mother a few days ago (LMDE). Printer too. Took about an hour.

Most of it was getting apps setup, moving pictures over, and making sure she was already logged into things like Facebook so she did not have to remember the passwords after I left.

Her biggest complaint has been that her friends email addresses do mot automatically pop-up in Thunderbird. They will once she has sent or received email from them. So this will pass.