I do wonder if this is the new standard when moving everything from AWS to Azure.

This is it. I used to work for a consultancy that specialised in Oracle products. Turns out if you want an ERP or HCM, running Oracle EBS with a DB backend on Oracle…running on Oracle Linux…on Oracle Linux KVM hypervisors (where CPU pinning is a recognised and allowed tactic - unlike Oracle on other hypervisors)…it turns out, might be competitively priced.

It’s a total lock in. Also, I get the impression that it’s almost always up to what the Finance team is used to/familiar with. They decide the finance app - then everything else follows as above due to the financials…which they are in charge of.

I know a guy who migrated workloads off PostgreSQL Enterprise back to Oracle as the performance and availability just wasn’t good enough. I don’t know enough about DBs to query that much, but he did it.

If you host your own DB of users and passwords you are a target. Offloading it to as many wide-spread oauth providers as possible is a smart move.

FreeIPA (IdM on RHEL clones) is similar in some functionality (you join the domain, you allow certain users/groups can run certain commands [like controlling sudo’ers], etc.) and it’s also a CA).

For configuration management I lean towards Ansible (Puppet, Salt, Chef I think all use a Ruby syntax, Ansible is YAML), and for deployment well Terraform, Kickstart and cloud-init - without knowing your environment it’s difficult to be more precise. There’s also Pyinfra which I’ve been meaning to give a whirl but not had a chance.

You’ve also got Keycloak if you need OIDC or SAML functionality (for SSO).

Not sure I follow. Which app?

OMG, this is the internet don’t be posting self-flaws. Jeez. ^kthxlvubai

Linux has always had a hard line disposition about keeping Kernel-space and User-space separate. SSHD (and systemd) are User-space, but are being configured on the kernel’s boot line (in GRUB, which is also User-space).

I don’t like to use the term rage-bait, but this post is suggesting that User-space components should not be configured by the Kernel-space (which is not happening here, it’s just the kernel boot line parameters, you could, pass the parameter to start a different init system other than systemd).

Until recently, I’ve had no real preference as mostly using RHEL clones at work. Now using Ubuntu…and snap has been causing issues.

It’s not fear I don’t think. It’s more like the Chinese Gov is opaque to us and it’s people.

There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.

• They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
• They didn’t fully open source all components I think.
• There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it’s entirely Chinese devs.

I am a big hack fan, I just don’t like to tell people as it’s a stupid name.

I would replace Linux with Solaris in this meme if I’m honest.

I think this is the correct answer in all honesty. Create a new script like help (or man2 or whatever) that pipes the argument through bat for you.

Are you having a stroke? Is there someone I can call for you?

I’m not a SuSE user - but did they not have the ability of using LVM or setting the hostname during install (GUI) prior to this?

Can you share which step you are up to which doesn’t have a non-systemd instruction?

Oracle Linux (up until 9.3 I think?) is a direct clone of RHEL. After 9.3 (or maybe it’s 9.2) it’s a best attempt clone of RHEL (similar to Alma Linux or Rocky Linux). If you want to learn RHEL then it’s a fairly decent equivalent with a couple of their own quirks thrown in (ULN, ksplice and the UEK).

Also, I don’t bother with certs or care if people have them. I have yet to find someone who knows a product better having got the cert than someone who’s used the product without a cert.

Made similar

The reasoning stated is that EROFS is more actively developed than SquashFS. Does that mean that SquashFS is feature incomplete, or that it’s more stable?

I think SimpleX is similar