Depending on how the question was phrased, they could be Republicans who registered Democrat to vote in Democrat primaries.

They’re happy that brown and/or LGBT people are being hunted in the streets.

Or, if you’re feeling generous, they’re not paying attention at all, but their pastor told them that everything is better when the president has an R next to their name.

/dev/md127 is probably a raid 1 from a previous installation. Assuming you don’t need the data on it, you can either delete or ignore it.

I’m not familiar with this exact installer, but I have installed Debian a bunch before. Judging by what I’m seeing here, you probably need to do a bit of manual labor. I’m guessing you first create partition tables (usually gpt), then raid partitions, then combine them into a raid, and maybe then put lvm on top of that again, and finally a filesystem. If you’re planning to go the lvm route you probably want to create a smaller raid on the start of the disk for /boot (250-500MB should suffice) separate from the lvm, because last I checked you can’t boot from an lvm volume.

Most teams I’ve been in would do a time boxed task (sometimes referred to as a spike) in those cases. Basically, you get a task with maybe 3 or 5 story points, and the goal is to either complete it or find out what it takes to do so. Then you make follow-up tasks for the next sprint. It’s worked pretty well for me in those cases with a lot of uncertainty.

Remember to only mark the worms that are fucking.

Are you confusing flatpaks and other containerization solutions like docker? Flatpaks are specifically for UI applications, and that doesn’t make much sense on a server.

Yeah, basically. Speeds up new installations, less duplicate downloads. Not interesting at all if you’re updating regularly, which most people are.

Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.

Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.

Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.

… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.

Nobody runs AWS in their data center, but lots of people have a humongous and ancient oracle database or two running. Oracle Linux was forked from RHEL in the mid 2000s for this use-case.

I never had any interest in it because it didn’t make sense to run Oracle Linux for the DB and some other distro on everything else, so we went with a more mainstream enterprise distro we could use for everything.

After they acquired Ksplice and ruined it for everyone else they have a better value proposition for it, since now they’re the only ones who can patch kernel vulnerabilities without rebooting.

I’m pretty sure you can run Oracle Linux on bare metal? But it only makes sense if you plan to run Oracle software on it (they only support enterprise distros like Oracle Linux, RHEL, or SLES) or want to use Ksplice to patch the kernel without rebooting.

He’s resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn’t have any pockets.

That’s not a given. A friend of mine worked on a weather forecast implemented in Fortran by people who were better at meteorology than programming, and some functions had thousands of parameters. The parameters for one of the calls (not the function definition) were actually supplied in a separate include file.

I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.

Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.

I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.

Wow. Extremely unprofessional. Don’t they know that explaining the reason for the rejection is a legal liability?

Then I don’t understand why you’re bringing it up. Are you saying it’s a problem with Linux that you spent time learning something you didn’t turn out to really need?

Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?

Which newbies need to know that? You already said you don’t, why do the other newbies need it?

I’ve been using Linux on the desktop for 20 years, and managed a whole farm of them professionally on several occasions. While I know the difference between /bin, /usr/bin and /sbin and why it’s like that, it’s hardly something I really need to think about unless I’m building a software package, something a newbie user would never do.