Boots currently relies on OSTree, you use OSTree enable base images. But the work is well on its way to transition to composefs which uses kernel native tech to replicate the features need from OSTree, so any systemd enabled distro can become bootc-able, for a bunch of example see: https://github.com/bootcrew
Hi I'm jreilly1821, I made those COPRs for Bluefin LTS. I guess I could put something malicious but you can see that they are all just packages from Fedora DistGit. I'm not sure what your preference would be? I think distros have mystique given to them that is misappropriated. At the end of the day they are mostly middlemen packaging someone else's code.
Bootc is and will change things, images will be tested as an integrated experience and we'll continue to strive to pull from as far upstream as we can.
Negativo17 is Simone, an NVIDIA employee who has been instrumental in packaging nvidia drivers for linux for years. I don't know for certain, but I wouldn't be suprised if they are also doing the official packaging for nvidia drivers as well. Needless to say they are very trusted and a known entity in the Linux community
I think I agree with what the grandparent poster wrote, and I'll try to expand on my reasoning. As a mildly paranoid user, I cannot possibly keep track all of all the individuals who maintain parts of Bluefin, no matter how much I like following all of you on Discord etc. I still don't even know what a DistGit or COPR is.
When I install a more corporate product such as Ubuntu or macOS, sure, it's also mostly middlemen repackaging other people's code. But it is clear what and who belongs to the company or team, and the team has a shared interest in protecting its reputation, and hopefully pwning or buying a single individual's accounts cannot infect everything else.
To that end, I agree that "consolidation" would help - sometimes that might mean controlled mirroring of things into the Bluefin org or so - but that is exactly what distros do, and I understand that Bluefin does not want to be a distro.
Sounds like the old Element app that was being used was using an always on notification to poll for push notifications instead of using a push service.
Element X only supports FCM cloud push notifications right now I think
Correct, the novel thing Element X does different is sliding sync which allows for much faster partial syncs when the app is opened. The classic apps would have to do a much more substantial (and energy intensive) sync each time it was brought up to foreground.
The big drawback are the X versions are still very far from feature complete.
What about bash shell? Bourne Again SHell shell. That's the same thing. But i think it can be a helpful distinction between using bash shell as an interactive shell and using the bash scripting language.
Yup. I'm one of those folks who thinks that RAS syndrome is an entertaining and occasionally useful language quirk, and not at all a problem.
For example, even within a computing context, saying "Fish shell" just might help someone understand that you're talking about the Unix shell and not the cipher, and would always help someone who's not familiar with Fish to at least understand that you're talking about an alternative Unix shell.
By contrast, whenever someone posts a Hacker News article about ML, the first comment is invariably someone complaining that they thought it would be about machine learning, and this is unnecessarily confusing, and a borderline injustice, it should change its name, etc. It would probably be easier for everyone involved if it were idiomatic to say "ML language", even thought doing so would be redundant.
But ML preceded ML (at least as a somewhat widespread topic of discussion), so it's the machine learning fans who get to come up with alternative terminology.
Most employers aren't going to see someone with a degree from "Western Governors University" any different than someone with a degree "Central Ohio University" or "University of Wisconsin - Stout". Even though one of these allows you to get a degree in 6 months for $3,500 and the other two are full 4-5 year degrees that total $60,000.
Yes if you have MIT or Harvard on your resume it will be memorable and stand out, but other than that... they are all basically looked at equally.
That only proves GP's point. What the author of the blog-post did in 3 months does not meet the expectations of a CS program from even a half decent school (think bottom of the top-100 list).
You know what also doesn't meet those expectations? a degree from a diploma mill.
So what you're saying is that, since outside of academia no one cares about quality of education, employers don't mind (or maybe shouldn't mind, according to your opinion) degrees from diploma mills.
When I say that the quality of the degree is not good, it is somewhat implied that the quality of the work of the person who did the degree is also questionable.. :/
Unfortunately you get this with students at every school. Many are just there to skate by and get a degree. The OP could also just know the material already and had no issue being able to pass as quickly as possible. This is something that is a huge benefit of WGU.
Also for what it's worth I took 8 weeks doing about 10 hours of work a week on Discrete math 1 and found it very interesting. My discrete math notes is a 1300 line org file that translates to a 29 page word doc. This doesn't include the many proofs and problems I practiced on a white board or on my iPad. I completed Operating systems in 5 weeks with about 15-20 hours of work a week. I used Georgia Techs Udacity course on operating systems to supplement my learning.
> I completed Operating systems in 5 weeks with about 15-20 hours of work a week. I used Georgia Techs Udacity course on operating systems to supplement my learning.
Which gives ~75h-100h, way more credible than the 15h the author mentions in the post..
My students have 3h/week of Lecture, 2h/week of labs which is about 75h of classes (15 weeks). If we add ~60h estimated time for two projects, it's 135h. It means to me that you had enough time to learn the concepts and may have internalized some/most of them..
Im not a native english speaker, what I mean by more credible is the outcome, not the degree itself. In other words, this guy that took 100 hours, I would say that it seems more credible to have learned more than the other that says he took only 15 hours...
I agree the article isn't well written but I do share some of the author's concerns about the right to free speech vs. the cultural norms of public discourse, private disagreements among friends, friendly debates, etc.
I read the book The Coddling of the American Mind [1] a while back and think I can sum it up with that modern American equate disagreeing with someone opinions as a personal attack and that we need to avoid touchy subject for the sake of tolerance.
Your right to free speech doesn't necessarily mean that I have to listen to you. If I am the ,edia platform you want to shout on top of, well, what you sy better be something that my audience wants to hear. Otherwise, I am not obligated to give you the time of day. That time is costing me money as a media broadcaster. If your half baked ideas is going to cause me a drop in audience following, hence advertising revenue, you can go find yourself another sympathetic ear. It ain't here. Second and fourth squares are saying exactly this and I could not agree with it any more. One of the best Xkcd strips. Good thing it was hashed out. I have forgotten about it.
I'm not sure if do-release-upgrade supports skipping releases, except for going from lts to lts? In other words, it might either: 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04, or 18.04 -> 18.10 -> 19.04. But not 18.04 (lts) -> 19.04?
