Correct.

There is also iFuse and iMobileDevice

Very impressive. The M1 Macs at least seem to be quite functional at this point and everything either has been or is in the process of hitting the mainline.

Lots of work to do of course but many would have bet against getting this far. But there is a big difference between “could be better” and “stuff doesn’t work”. Getting the Rust based GPU driver into the kernel is a major achievement on its own and may do a lot to silence the “Rust isn’t used for anything real in the kernel” crowd as well.

With all the recent drama, I think some assumed the project was on the ropes. But the updates on the M2 and the reduced support burden of their past work leave me pretty hopeful that good progress will continue.

That works.

To my ear though, “Linux based” leans too much towards the kernel. It makes me want to ask “what do you mean”.

I prefer “Linux distribution” or just Linux distro. If I was asked what that meant, I would simply have to say that Linux is available from different groups each of which curates slightly different collections of software which they “distribute”. Nobody needs to knew what a kernel is to understand that explanation.

I mean, I just say Linux. But when I do feel the need to distinguish, Linux distro and Linux kernel works for me.

If just saying Linux confuses you, just say Linux distro and / or Linux kernel explicitly.

To me, Linux means Linux distro unless further clarification or comedy is given. If you mean the kernel, you should always say so—the Linux kernel.

Non-technical users have no idea what the kernel is and you are not going to talk to them about it. So, when you say Linux they think Linux distro. It is not confusing unless we make it that way.

I would drive across Canada to vote against PP and i have nothing good to say about any of the landlords I have had.

It is a bloody miracle how completely you have convinced me that they are all better people than you.

Somebody mentions children and these are the words you puke out?

Making PP move out would be hilarious. Shitting on kids to get what you want is not.

With Liberty Linux and OpenELA, a key SuSE strategy is supporting customers that are using competing Linux distros.

Moving to more standard tooling like Ansible and Cockpit positions them to support these mixed environments better. It also makes it easier to turn a RHEL customer that adopts Liberty Linux for support into a pure SLE customer later on.

Overall, it seems like a reasonable strategy. I know YaST has fans but it does not seem like many people were ditching other distros for the chance to use it. The engineering resources spent on YaST may be more productively used elsewhere.

Moved my mother a few days ago (LMDE). Printer too. Took about an hour.

Most of it was getting apps setup, moving pictures over, and making sure she was already logged into things like Facebook so she did not have to remember the passwords after I left.

Her biggest complaint has been that her friends email addresses do mot automatically pop-up in Thunderbird. They will once she has sent or received email from them. So this will pass.

I know this is all just in fun but a mail server is one thing I would certainly want a supported kernel on. Security and email are not friends.

I just learned that Tiny Core Linux still supports 486 out of the box in their latest release (Tiny Core 16 with kernel 6.12).

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

Also, Arch 32 still supports 486 as well though I think only non-GUI packages.

https://www.archlinux32.org/architecture/

Makes sense now.

There are a significant number of Windows users that lack technical skills and rely on others for support. Many will also have hardware that does not support Windows 11.

They have 4 choices:

• keep using Windows 10 without support
• upgrade to Windows 11 (without support)
• upgrade to Windows 11 (new hardware)
• upgrade to Linux

Many, probably most, of these users will be happy continuing to use an unsupported version of Windows. However not all of their support advisors will be happy with this. That includes me. I do not want to take responsibility for these users on an unsupported operating system.

For the same reasons, I am not going to recommend running Windows 11 without support.

So, the choice is buy new hardware or try Linux.

These people that are perfectly happy with their computers the way they are, why do they want to go buy new computers? This is not a very attractive option. I think it is the least attractive option.

Given the other choices, trying Linux, especially as a trial to see if new hardware purchases can be avoided, sounds attractive.

If you are relying on others for support, moving to Windows 11 or moving to Linux is the same amount of work. It is no more difficult and probably no less scary if somebody is helping you.

People would rather stay with what they have. Microsoft will not let them.

You “need” that?

In the absolute, you are wrong. Some will. Some have. I have migrated a few myself.

The end of support is a problem for Windows users and therefore an opportunity for Linux supporters.

Will a large fraction of Windows users migrate to Linux? Probably not. That said, more will move if we educate them and offer our assistance. Even a small migration of Windows users would be a significant increase in Linux Desktop users. If 5 percent of Windows users migrated, it would double the number of Linux users. So, moving even a small percentage of Windows users would be a major success.

Why does that bother you?

Just moved my mother from Windows 10 to LMDE.

Not much for new features but quite a bundle of performance, stability, and resource use improvements. Good to see.

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I hope so. It may help the economies of Mexico and Cuba more than anything else.

Bookings are down far more than 2%. That number is for arrivals which is the realization of bookings made months ago. The article itself shows bookings down double digits from many European countries.

The quotes from American airlines say international bookings are ok because those airlines mostly cater to Americans travelling abroad. What do European airlines have to say about traffic to the US? How is the summer looking at Lufthansa?

This article cherry picks data. I feel like it was written to convince us that what we are hearing is false, not to reflect the facts.

In Canada, some airlines have already started to cancel entire routes due to lack of demand.

I agree though, the impact should be greater.

Another factor is snowbirds selling their Florida properties. They are somewhat flooding the market right now which will drive down prices.

To be fair, not every Linux distro works the same. It has been a while since I setup Apache but there used to be quite a difference in configuration between Fedora derived distros and Debian derived distros for example.

I won’t repeat the whole message but

https://www.cip-project.org/about/linux-kernel-core-packages

There will be a Linux Foundation supported kernel that can be built for 486 until at least 2035. After that, you might have to backport security fixes yourself.