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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At work we use separate clusters for various things. We built an Ansible collection to manage the lot so it's not too much overhead.

For home use I skipped K8s and went to rootless Quadlet manifests. Each quadlet is in a separate non-root user with lingering enabled to reduce exposure from a container breakout.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Securing proprietary hardware against peeps installing alt OSes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Technically XFS is also a CoW filesystem, but it doesn't have the vast array of features that ZFS does like volume management, snapshots, send/recv etc. It does have reflink support which I guess is a kind of snapshot for a file.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

OpenZFS is under a completely FOSS license but it's incompatible with the GPL and can't really ever be merged into the Linux kernel. The workaroundids to provide it as source code which gets compiled as a module every time there's a new kernel via dkms.

More controversially, Canonical ship OpenZFS pre-compiled in Ubuntu which some lawyers believe to be infringing on ZFS' codebase.

Honestly the OpenZFS situation on Linux is probably the biggest single reason for the growing interest in btrfs and bcachefs, the former slowly becoming default on more Linux distros over time and lots of investment from SUSE and Facebook AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ext3 had journaling, but not ext2. Also ext3 doesn't really exist anymore as it was merged into the ext4 driver which can read the old format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It is fast. It's the recommended filesystem for MinIO and default for RHEL 7 and above. XFS and ext4 are often recommended for databases if no other filesystem-level features (like snapshots) are needed. XFS has slightly more features than ext4 like CoW and reflink support.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The company behind GitLab is seeking buyout offers, so make of that what you will.

My employer uses GitLab CE and it's pretty good, and it is FOSS. The EE version is "open core" so not really FOSS.

If I were starting from scratch I'd be looking into Gitea/Forgejo as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's not stupid. They don't show unverified .deb packages in software centre either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe a bit of a case of sour grapes on both sides? The Greens nearly took Fiona's seat last election at 47.7% to LNP's 52.3%. The ward office window was smashed and tensions were high. No excuse for it but the garbage that the LNP posted out was... truly garbage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my country that would be a civil offence, not criminal.

I'd recommend at least taking some precautions (e.g. use TLS or Wireguard, firewall if possible).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The main reason I've steered clear of OpenSUSE is its commercial backing as opposed to being a true non-profit community distro like Debian or Arch.

Red Hat have influenced Fedora decisions before and obviously blew up CentOS as a RHEL clone when they had the chance. Canonical constantly make bad decisions with Ubuntu.

I will add that I've heard nothing but good things about SUSE and OpenSUSE. SLES sounds like a decent alternative to RHEL and the OpenSUSE community distros sound pretty solid.

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