If we were down to Microsoft 355 already and 113 complained, it would at least be a useful ratio ...

But _of course_ the Aurora Borealis. However that serves to help some long range VHF communications, some military high power communications.

The fun one is the Dellinger fadeout which will wipe out frequencies from 3-30MHz and leave the bands stone dead.

China just needs to put some weight of population to take over historic Chinese territory in Primorskiy Krai and so on. All Russian territory round the Amur was Chinese within the last 150 years - they can own it just like Putin can own Alaska :)

Then we get to see a land war in Asia again :)

I have no mouth but I must scream vibes there ...

... well, maybe they will now. Just a matter of time for big corporate / Government distribution to get clobbered - and just after they got rid of a whole load of capable techies and developers. This Red Hat is not the old Red Hat - and it shows.

Clicky mechanical keyboard with blank keys is a genuine godsend. It keeps people from messing with my desk :)

If you *can't* touch type, then you're using a few fingers rather than all ten and that *must* slow you up. If you. if you *know* you can touch type, then you can phrase your thoughts without having to worry about anything further.

All this said, I've know a bunch of Linux sysadmins who were excellent sysadmins but functionally very dyslexic when typing English on the same keyboard.
There is an element of difference between typing ls -al ./* and a full sentence.

As per the article referenced, Luke identifies as they/them. Their blog rather than his blog preferred.

Shouldn't the headline at least read deny-list rather than blacklist?

AWS2023 is specifically Fedora 34, 35 and 36. It's incompatible with EPEL. I don't understand how they will keep it supported for five years given that it is already unsupported upstream ...

Potentially, Ubuntu supports many more packages than Red Hat. Red Hat itself is small in terms of packages and bundled applications - and Red Hat don't necessarily support EPEL packages coming ultimately from Fedora.

If you absolutely positively have to have something supported for up to 10 years, and incorporate FIPS / PCI credit card processing / needs to work for US Government or similar or (insert $$$ generating vital commercial thing that requires heavyweight regulation here), then Red Hat and IBM might be your answer.

If not, there's Ubuntu Pro (or Ubuntu with third party support).

If neither, then there's OpenSUSE / Debian - and you may get just as good support from something completely non-commercial like Debian as you actually do from one of the paid for support plans from others. You will have to convince beancounters and bosses of this, of course.

It exists, it works, they chose Debian because it worked - see also https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeetings-archive.debia... where much is explained.

Is it too early for "Oh, the huge manatee!!" ?

Don't bother - it doesn't build cleanly - "Have you hydrated the filesystem" - error is in their issue tracker. Could do with better quality control

At this point, it looks slightly messy. Building your own distro - and RPM-based at that - is not a great idea. I hope they've _really_ good dependency management and a top notch security team. If this is their distro for Azure - here's hoping they're prepared to sit on top of every CVE. There's Go in the mix - I hope they've got
enough expertise to keep it going well.

As well as this, let's also hope that they speed up their own internal processes - like getting shims signed for secure boot / accepting other distros as guests on WSL2. Scrapping their own distro and rolling the hooks for everything to allow every other distro to peer on WSL2 would have been a much nicer idea.
They've been working with Canonical but have obviously missed a few tricks about Linux distribution management along the way :(

As ever, /me would much rather have seen something sane and Debian based, but, hey, this is the company that brought us Windows ME.

This is not just killing the goose that lays the golden egg but taking the last example of the species and vapourising it. Hudson did this and Jenkins arrived immediately. Oracle did this with Solaris, MySQL and the JRE.

Freenode is now wholly worthless and the person most obviously behind it is persona non grata, effective immediately. Donors of servers / bandwidth / hosting to Freenode - pull it because you won't gain glory by association. Andrew Lee hasn't covered himself with glory here and has terminated any reputation he retained with extreme prejudice, whatever you might choose to say about the libera.chat admins.

Meh, who cares? Some of us still use IRC daily - to be honest, I'm surprised more projects like Ubuntu, Alma Linux and co didn't just move to OFTC.