Hi everyone
The university will be upgrading the mailman server on Monday Sept
2nd, which also hosts the WLUG mailing list. Unfortunately, the email
I received notifying me about the upgrade did not state when or how
long the outage will be, only that the new admin interface will be
available after 5pm (NZ time).
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Top Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a new 30-minute
interview with TFIR during the Open Source Summit, 2019. He discusses
security in the post-Spectre world, remembers when Microsoft joined
the Linux distros mailing list, and acknowledges good-naturedly that
he and Richard Stallman "approach things from a different standpoint".
An anonymous reader writes:
In the interview Kroah-Hartman talks about downsides of living in the
Hague. "My son's school actually mandates that they all have MacBooks.
So he has a MacBook, my wife has a MacBook, and that's about it." But
of course, Kroah-Hartman himself is always using Linux.
So what distro does he use? "I don't use openSUSE any more, I use
Arch. And my build system I think is actually running Fedora. I have a
number of virtual machines still running Gentoo, Dubya, and Fedora to
do some testing on some userspace tools. But yeah, all my laptops and
everything is switched over to Arch these days... I have a Chromebook
that I play around with, and you can run Linux applications, and you
can of course SSH into anything..."
Why Arch? "At the moment it had something that I needed. I don't
remember what it was, the latest development version, what not -- and
I've known a number of the Arch developers over the years. Their idea
of a constantly rolling, forward-moving system is the way to go...
It's neutral, it's community-based, it has everything I need. It works
really really well. I've actually converted my cloud instances that I
have all to Arch... It's nice." And in addition, "Their Wiki is
amazing. The documentation -- it's like one of the best resources out
there these days... If you look up any userspace program and how to
configure it and use it. Actually, the systemd Arch Wiki pages are one
of the most amazing resources out there...
"One of the main policies of Arch, or philosophies, is you stay as
close to the upstream as possible. And as a developer, I want that...
They're really good in feedback to the community. Because I want that
testing -- I want to make sure that things are fixed. And if it is
broken, I learn about it quickly and I fix it and push the stuff out.
So that's actually a really good feedback loop. And that's some of the
reasons I need it."'
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/09/02/0018252
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
