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I believe OpenStack Swift in particular is known to work well in some large organizations [1], NVIDIA is one of those and also invested in its maintenance [2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DunJM1zoc 2. https://platform.swiftstack.com/docs/

And FF46 on Linux which makes me think they just haven't ever tried this with FF.

Now... this is certainly great, especially given the particular selection of projects receiving the donations. I've upvoted the article and hopefully more companies (aka open source consumers) will do the same.

But then I wonder, what is that the community would benefit most from? Money or actual code contributions?

I develop open source software and I get paid for doing it, which is a great luxury. Go DDG, raise the bar even further, employ people working on these projects if you don't have any already and even release more software!

I like Stallman's idea of it more.

Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness.

It seems to me more appropriate, More effective, better descriptive, less limiting.

Not that being a hacker means one also has to be good at writing what an hacker is, but Stallman is showing some true hacker spirit here I think.

hi, no I haven't A/B tested those but I'm sure the videos sound very good. The hifi equipment is probably far more important than the quality issues of a 192AAC vs the CD.

Yet, I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective, let me give you an argument.

Keeping the sound of good quality while lowering the bandwidth is an issue; the 192bit AAC is a great achievement in that regard.

Recording and reproducing music with highest quality is another; the CD itself is not entirely lossless in this context.

So I just think for a music streaming service it would be nice to not diminish the music quality at the source of reproducing chain.

thanks, they seem to be looking for how much people is waiting for the service to be available in other countries ... so I just registered!

quality indeed is my main concern too ... I haven't started using any of the cloud services simply because none (that I know) provides lossless music.

Additionally, both baremetal and OpenStack Ironic have a focus on 'triple-O', or OpenStack on OpenStack[2] use cases

Well, I'm sure they have issues but what gave you the impression they are focused on TripleO use cases?

As a TripleO dev I just use them.

Compared to more 'standalone' softwares like MAAS, these tools are integrated already into OpenStack, allowing you to deploy images on either virtual instances or baremetal without adding more software layers in charge of the images hosting, authentication, dhcp management and what not.

I think maximizing profit is what corporations do by definition. I agree with the poster something is changed at Gogle after Larry Page took over though.

Yet in the process of "making my opinion about a corp being evil or not" I enjoy measuring the amount and the quality of free software they release. For software corp, I think this is a good parameter.

By this metric it is easy to understand that putting too much hopes into Google is wrong. They release a lot of code, but that code is usually only "a path" for the user to their core products (which they do not release).

I encourage you rediscover those corps instead where people work hard to keep their "don't be evil" going, despite not marketing it that much.

Let me add something, maybe I'm not good enough for Google, but I'm employed by Red Hat and I enjoy what we do at Red Hat. And I could name a lot of others, in this context, doing great things.

I enjoyed the post but there is one sentence I can't understand:

2/ Only surround yourself with brilliant and positive people. Negative and mediocre people are everywhere and their influence on you can be devastating.

The thing is that I'm potentially one of those "mediocre" people and I don't see why my influence should be devastating.

For instance, what is wrong about being negative? Not that my days are about it but, when I find myself thinking about the society we've built, I feel depressed and helplessness. Our society runs on poverty, climate change, INC governments, wars. We got to a point where some perpetuate violence on people and animals for living.

Not only that but from a certain perspective, I've a reason to think about myself as a mediocre person, cause I managed to get lot of good things from life, including a fun job but I'm not the "cool kid" and, as such, I think I'm quite a mediocre guy.

So my question is as follows, what are you suggesting here: the best way to avoid any negativity get to you, is to eliminate these gloomy people from your life ?

Sounds more a strategy for distraction.

OpenShift

to be honest, I'd have linked the features list page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList which bundles a lot of nice informations in a single page!

actually it boils down to very few steps:

  # rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/FB4B18E6.txt
  # yum update yum
  # yum --releasever=19 distro-sync

sure it is better than doing nothing, except in my perception HN isn't a place for average non-tech guys so I get bored by this kind of posts

About me, I'm planning (and practicing) not to release any non-free code and also looking for alternatives to a few web apps which I'm still unable to replace (as per first post). That would be a much nicer topic to discuss for me.

Installing gnu/linux, no really. Again that is 20years old story.

indeed that is what in these days I would consider interesting and eventually title "Returning to Free Software" ... have you got experiences to share on the matter?

And speaking about practical solutions, I know of identi.ca and libre.fm , do you know of others?

Also, I'm not selling myself as the only good guy around who always makes good decisions.

I use and need a replacement for gmail, for todoist, for linkedin and probably a few others.

So what would an hacker, returning to freedom, suggest as replacement?

yeah thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix that

btw, I meant to say "exotic"

yes, not only that but I'm getting bored by people pretending they're doing anything good just because they've (finally) realized that using non-free software suffers from collaterals

I'm bored by people pretending they've gone free just because they managed to replace OSX with some exotic gnu/linux distro (and with exotic I mean whatever which isn't mainstream)

And I'm bored by people upvothing posts like this

And I know someone will tell is me who is wrong (and boring) but listen, that is just your opinion, as this is mine. One thing isn't opinionable though, svbtle isn't free, so this post really isn't a good one, for me

And if your story is about "how you reinstalled some random gnu/linux", well that is a 20 years old story; what is an hacker (news reader) interested in? the .Xmodmap settings?

The fight for freedom today seems to me to have been moved for the great part somewhere else, on the webapps. How about we "return to freedom" by debating on how we get rid of all these non-free web applications?

not sure how much familiar you are with EFF though, it is called electronic FRONTIER foundation (not FREEDOM foundation)

but again, if it is just about the default behaviour which we debate, one can simply disable the overcommit

vm.overcommit_memory = 2

see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accou...

Given the topic of the article I understand my question could be seen as OT but I'd like to dig more into the following:

> The NT kernel is still much better than Linux in some ways --- you guys be trippin' with your overcommit-by-default MM nonsense

What's wrong with the overcommit-by-default behaviour? Or how/why the NT kernel is supposed to do better?

One more feature I found very interesting in GlusterFS is the ability to export the volumes via NFS, transparently, to the NFS clients.

I've attempted something similar but without installing any external package and by documenting the config inline so that one could pick only what needed:

http://giuliofidente.com/2013/04/getting-to-know-and-use-ema...

In there I tried to address also other issues like saving the backup files out of the working dir, show the line numbers, highlight long lines.

I think you're doing it wrong.

Having a _shared_ account, with sudo privileges and a common password doesn't look smart.

Also, you're forcing devs to copy their public keys around.

I think you underestimate the benefits brought in by a centralized system, like LDAP, which would also allow you to manage the permissions with some more granularity

I stayed in the dark for long time, waiting for a post like this. I refused to spend any good money on whatever tablet.

Better, not only I haven't found any single productive use for a tablet, I haven't ever found one for a smartphone either.

I think one could buy a porable mp3 player or an ebook reader for much less money.

In another post, I'm also trying to compare the similarities of the two.

The problem I see is that they both, especially when used 'improperly', prevent people from innovate.

To me it looks like software improves also by recycling and improving existing concepts so, when it comes to software, patent owners eventually manage to raise some money, but that's all.

They cause much greater damage to the rest of us by stopping other people from reusing the concept.

The thing is that from my perspective, the same happens with most of the grants given to copyrights holders.

Again, when speaking about software, to give a copyright holder the right to be credited for the work is perfectly fine, but what about the right to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it?

How different is that from a patent?

I think the software patents regulation should to be reviewed but I see the current situation with software patents regulation very similar to what happens with copyrighted closed source software.

To my understanding, they both prevent innovation.

Wikipedia on copyright: gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights.

Wikipedia on patents: The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, or distributing the patented invention without permission.

To me it looks like Laminar Research decided to use their right to distribute the software with a license which prevented people from distributing the sources, from copying the binaries, from improving/redistribue the software, from studying the software.

They decided to raise some money for their hard work forcing people to pay for the usage of such a software.

Isn't Uniloc just trying to raise some money from a patented invention, forcing Laminar Research to pay for the usage of such a patent?

To me it looks very similar to what Laminar Research did. They're playing by the same rules.

If Laminar Research has rights to protect its source code, why hasn't Uniloc rights to protect its invention? What am I missing?

I don't think the problem is just about who had invented firstly the technology. We shall all be paying Tesla for the AC current then!

> The thing is: there is no pattern for success generation. Stop seeking it. This is against the nature of being exceptional.

Of the same idea is Alberto Savoia in his book about pretotyping, where he describes such a Law of Failure.

What one can do is try to fail faster and I very much suggest to read the book, it's for free: http://www.pretotyping.org/pretotype-it---the-book

Compare Linux to OSX makes no sense to me. Linux has always been missing features when compared to alternatives; the GNU system was actually written to emulate the alternative.

But the GNU/Linux project had a very different objective. Fighting for freedom. If it is still freedom the driving force, then we should encourage the enthusiasts and get back to work on improve Linux, as it has been done for the past years. By doing so Linux already reached the excellence in some fields.

If you're just competing on features, you'll be missing some great benefits and enjoyment. And to be honest, in terms of features OSX isn't that good either as Windows is still used by the majority for one reason or another.

You're completely wrong on this. The software released under the GPL should not at all be assimilated to freeware and even Stallman encourages to sell GPL software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Companies pay Red Hat to get QA, support, liability and some level of interaction with the development community.