@mos_8502 I think it mostly depends on what kind of software you’re going to run.

If you’re not going to use any software that depends on modern widget toolkits then I think you could be just fine with a fully TUI environment. I run a similar setup by running dvtm for a dwm-like experience.

OTOH, if you need something like a pdf viewer, an image viewer, a modern browser etc. I think running a full TUI environment would be inconvenient.
Just run a small wayland compositor, like sway (or i3 if you’re still running X11), and you’ll be fine.

One of the most things I love of OpenBSD is the pragmatic decisions the developers make.

macOS blocked Kernel Extensions for security reasons.
You cannot load any kext at runtime unless you boot in Recovery mode and disable this restriction.

But still I think the OpenBSD approach to delete the entire LKM support was a smarter move than running a LKM-aware kernel and then blocking the loading of kexts at runtime.

I will build a great cloud, and nobody builds clouds better than me, believe me. And I will built it very inexpensively. I will build a great great cloud with multiple regions, and I will have customers pay for that cloud! Mark my words!

#MakeCloudComputingGreatAgain #expensivebills #costsoptimizationfanfic

I'm looking forward to get my Dell PowerEdge T610 tower server delivered.

Now, I just need to buy 12x16GB ECC RAM banks and 4TBx8 HDDs.

@mos_8502 While I agree with your philosophy from a personal pov, I can’t do it from a market pov.

In this world of ours, if there is no popularity in commodity scenarios, there will be not in the enterprise one.

Windows became known in the server space because of it’s being known in the desktop arena.
People use it at home, so they pushed it at work.

Linux is the same. It was pushed from the geek and homemade computing world and then, through Red Hat and others, became the way to go in the enterprise IT.

This is also one of the reasons for the decline of commercial UNIX flavors. No one at their home knowns about them or could use them.

Then again, personally I’m like you. I like diversification, also because it brings innovation.
I always says that when there was competition in platform (CPU architecture, OS etc) there were the best innovations.
Now, with the commodity hardware and commodity software, there is no innovation as before.

While I think that the cloud providers are pushing a toxic behavior where there is no contribution to the products they’re selling as a “managed service”, I think Redis is using this situation as a excuse to change their license to a proprietary one.

If you are choosing to release your software with a permissive license, like the BSD, you are telling that is fine for you that your software can be used even in a third party proprietary solution.
Whining that someone ACTUALLY did that and made profits greater than yours is just hypocritical.

#redis #bsl #CloudProviders

A very interesting article from @eb blog about the history of the XZ vulnerability that these days everyone is talking about.

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor