The openSuse project has finally made the move to be aligned with the Suse SLE project, much more like Red Hat and Fedora have been or how Ubuntu works. So instead of openSuse doing one thing and Suse doing another, there is now openSuse Leap which tracks the Suse SLE releases for companies that want a lock step production release for free (without Suse corporate support options.) The new release is called openSuse Leap and to keep release numbers from being confusing it is releasing version 42.1 (Hitchikers will get the reference) to denote the lock step with SLE 12.1. Leap will release just ahead of SLE and is already out.

openSuse Leap comes as the "production server" release matching Suse SLE and is new from the openSuse family. Their old product release methodology continues in openSuse Tumbleweed which is a rolling release with the latest software packages and constant updates. So Leap is like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Tumbleweed is kind of like Fedora, in a round about way. The openSuse world is a bit bigger now, this is a great new feature that could really revolutionize what it is like to work with the world of Suse Linux.

https://www.opensuse.org/

Meatball tacos

Veeam has a guide on backing up Linux systems which I suspect is to help them to announce their new Linux Endpoint Backup product that is in beta now. Free video (about fifty minutes) that covers some stuff about Linux backups. You have to sign up, but the video is free.

https://www.veeam.com/videos/linux-automation-backup-availability-8254.html

UPS is indeed the answer. Software RAID trusts that you will take the effort to protect the power supply externally rather than internally. It's always been the nature of enterprise software RAID to push that responsibility to the physical server admins to make sure that that power is reliable or the power down happens gracefully before things fail.

Just had a Covetrus "support tech" not be able to install their MSI and to try to blame us he actually made the claim that their MSI file that he had just downloaded and run himself was actually "our responsibility for being part of the operating system."

WTF dude. Obviously we aren't going to fall for that. How the hell would their application's MSI file be provided by Windows 10?

Keepass is pretty good. You can host it on DropBox or ownCloud or whatever to share it.

Coincidence that this started RIGHT after they announced a drop in iPhone sales?

Saw this mentioned today and was wondering if anyone had every taken a look at it. It's a project to add VDI to the KVM hypervisor.

https://github.com/Seitanas/kvm-vdi

Social engineering is a powerful thing.

https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/

Just got this in my email, all CloudatCost servers are half off today. Code is ETQHEHQ.

You can often tell because... it tastes like dill.

After many years of working on Linux and having to access all of my servers from windows machines I finally have been allowed to have a Linux desktop at work.

It is glorious. Suddenly everything is so much easier. So much faster to do simple tasks. I am loving this. Only RHEL 5 right now but pushing to get a RHEL 7 system soon.

This really just highlights that bloatware is a bad idea. If they weren't including unnecessary garbage this could not have happened. They are setting themselves up for failure by intentionally having a process by which they need to scrutinize all this stuff that they are installing for no reason. Simple don't install it and you don't even need to verify it!

@ajstringham said:

I'm allowed my opinions.

Yes you are. But they are allowed to not retain you too. "Allowed" is a fuzzy term here. You are allowed to speak about them publicly, they are allowed to let you go. It's a two way street. Very few companies, at least large ones, allow employees to speak ill of them publicly and even fewer allow employees to state that they are employees.

I almost always use third party ink, it works just fine. There is always risk, but the cost savings more than covers any concern around the risk, normally. Just make sure you are really saving money.

If you are using super high end, large format printers or something special that really does cost many thousands of dollars, maybe OEM ink is worth it or likely is the only thing available. But that's not the common printing solution.

Anyone seen this? Microsoft released a new client for Skype for Linux. It's based on WebRTC (like Firefox Hello) and is just in alpha so basically doesn't work yet, but is out there in RPM and DEB formats for people to start playing with.

https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-for-Linux-Alpha-and-calling-on-Chrome-amp-Chromebooks/td-p/4434299

And they've extended their web functionality too, so Chrome and Chromebooks can use the web version of Skype.

@Joyfano said:

If i could listen to music right now.. i want some music of Air Supply soft rock.

I have heard of your love for Air Supply. It is legend... wait for it.

Dairy.

It's hard not to feel betrayed by your ink when it kills your printer. But step back from the emotional aspects of it and look at the total costs and fail rates. If one in fifty third party inks kills a printer, then that means every fiftieth person will have a story of "the first time I used it, it killed my printer." It's just the law of averages. But the chances that it will happen again are extremely low. It doesn't mean that the cheaper ink wasn't the right decision, it's calculated risk. It's just very hard not to become emotional when you are the one that got hit with the unlucky fiftieth cartridge.

http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/news/linux-foundation-takes-ownership-of-rethinkdb-code.html

This is very nice to see. A great example of what we see talked about here a lot - a vendor that made open source went out of business, but instead of the customers being left out in the cold, another open source project picked it up and now RethinkDB is part of the Linux Foundation.