Hacker News: profwalkstr

Debian to require Rust as of May 2026

profwalkstr — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:36:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1044496/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786863

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 released

profwalkstr — Wed, 21 May 2025 00:02:37 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1021827/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44047106

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL 10 released

profwalkstr — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:13:56 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1002044/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426906

Points: 22

# Comments: 1

Now CockroachDB Ditches Open-Source License

profwalkstr — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://news.itsfoss.com/cockcroachdb-no-open-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312144

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Ask HN: Has your company switched from Ubuntu due to security patch gatekeeping?

profwalkstr — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:22:20 +0000

As you may know, Ubuntu is gatekeeping security updates in their "universe" repository. It will show your system is vulnerable and will only allow you to fix those security holes if you purchase Ubuntu Pro.

They claim that the universe repository was always unsupported and now they are offering in-house patches for those packages, but they are intentionally unclear if they are upstreaming those fixes and if those fixes will arrive to non-paying customers after a while. They say they non-paying customers will get those fixes if the "community" fixes them, but the process to send patches in seem inexistent so that doesn't seem to actually happen. They are also intentionally unclear if they will pull and distribute for free users patches issued by the Debian team.

Has anyone company, or any company you know (I'm not talking about home lab or domestic users) switched from Ubuntu to another distro (let's say, AlmaLinux or Fedora or Debian) because of this policy?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212300

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Canonical Saw $251M in Revenue Last Year, Grew to More Than 1K Employees

profwalkstr — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-2023-Revenue-Numbers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41108670

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

VirtualBox 7.1 Beta: Modernized GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing

profwalkstr — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-7.1-Beta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41078588

Points: 14

# Comments: 8

Red Hat Announces RHEL AI

profwalkstr — Thu, 23 May 2024 21:00:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-AI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459856

Points: 29

# Comments: 8

AlmaLinux forms engineering steering committee

profwalkstr — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:51:56 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/974488/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433736

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Nvidia Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Soon Be the Default for Turing, Newer GPUs

profwalkstr — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:15:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R560-Open-Default

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327857

Points: 45

# Comments: 10

Rocky Linux to Support Upstream Stable Kernels

profwalkstr — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:25:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-Upstream-Kernels

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075461

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: LXD vs. Libvirt vs. Boxes vs. VirtualBox for dev work: which is easier?

profwalkstr — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:08:48 +0000

For a developer workstation who needs to often spin different OSs to test stuff, which one is easier to setup and use?

In my limited experience, VirtualBox takes the crown, followed by GNOME Boxes. But GNOME Boxes is too simple and misses some important features. And Virtualbox, in spite of it's amazingly easy UI, has an out of kernel module with "taints" the kernel and can cause strange issues sometimes. The Linux kernel devs complain a lot about the quality of Virtualbox kernel modules and refuse to have anything to do with it.

VMware Workstation seems to be going downhill, from kernel compatiblity issues to outright crashing the machine. The UI is very good though, when it works.

Libvirt, once Red Hat's golden goose and now thrown aside together with its sister project virt-manager seems very good until you get to setting up network. What the hell. It seems they purposely made it hard to set up networking. I'm only half joking. It feels like they went out of the way to think "how can we make it harder? This is too easy, we need to sell support so it can´t be easy enough". Trying to set a network bridge in Virtualbox and VMware Workstation (and even Hyper-V) is a breeze, but it feels like walking through lava in hell with Libvirt. And Cockpit, their now preferred solution to pair with Libvirt doesn't make it any easier. Libvirt feels like it was designed for datacenter use, not worksation use. Skipping libvirt and using qemu directly with its copious amount of flags seem easier than using libvirt networking.

LXD (and its fork Incus) seems like a good balance between features and UI, has anyone had experience with it? Can it be a good alternative to Virtualbox for development and testing purposes, for a developer workstation?

Proxmox is not relevant here because it's supposed to own the machine, to have the machine dedicated to it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39792061

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by profwalkstr in "Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice?"

profwalkstr — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:35:58 +0000

No, they also have desktop apps. Even as Flatpaks and Snaps

Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice?

profwalkstr — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:19:28 +0000

OnlyOffice is a free and open-source (AGPL license) office suite that seems more polished and easier to use than LibreOffice. LibreOffice, compared to OnlyOffice, feels clunky, harder to use and dated.

Why hasn't it seem more adoption compared to LibreOffice, especially by Linux distros?

Why is LibreOffice favored over OnlyOffice?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491655

Points: 16

# Comments: 13

Another Runc Container Breakout

profwalkstr — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:25:25 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/961086/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39346749

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns

profwalkstr — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Encrypt-Corrupt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344220

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

profwalkstr — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:41:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/critical-vulnerability-affecting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308800

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: In 2024, become an expert in Docker or Podman?

profwalkstr — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:41:58 +0000

I'm a DevOps and need to up my container game. I plan to become an expert in Docker but Podman is a serious contender. It looks like Podman might have a bright future since Red Hat is investing a lot of money in it while Docker is still scratching their heads looking for a business model that the community won't reject. Podman seems to have a better financial future outlook since it's subsidized by Red Hat's OpenShift strategy.

Although I know Docker is the "standandard" and Podman sometimes has incompatibilities with Docker which it shouldn't have.

HN folks seem to prefer Podman instead of Docker.

What's the smartest choice here? Invest my time to become an expert in Docker or Podman?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38817617

Points: 9

# Comments: 7

Ask HN: RPMs or DEBs? Which is easier for devs to package their apps?

profwalkstr — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:31:06 +0000

In your experience packaging applications, is it easier to create RPMs or DEBs? What makes one easier or the other more complicated? What about the documentation and associated tools for creating the packages?

Is there one easier and simpler than the other or are both complicated beasts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38731543

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Ask HN: Why Debian and Ubuntu make Apache config so complicated and split up?

profwalkstr — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:25:56 +0000

In upstream Apache httpd and most other distros Apache configuration is so simple, with few files and a simple directory structure for its configuration.

Meanwhile, in Debian and its derivatives, we got it split into many files and directories, with a whole system of symlinks and helpers that exist only in Debian, like a2enmod, a2dismod, a2ensite, a2dissite, and a2enconf, a2disconf.

I've even seen people calling this a "Debianism".

Why does Debian make such change to the structure of upstream Apache config? I'm sure there must be good reasons and/or historical reasons for that, with a rationale buried in a mailing list post from 2 decades ago, but I can't seem to find it.

What are the reasons for Debian to change the upstream config structure of the Apache server?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38731523

Points: 3

# Comments: 3