I had a good laugh when I read this.

Red Hat employs hundreds of software engineers, contributing a lot to the entire Linux ecosystem. Canonical's resources in terms of code contribution are laughable in comparison and being a streamlined business Cacnonical has few, if any, resources to review third party code. They are happy to ride along, but the number of people at Canonical who actually write and read code outside the shiny UI field are hardly those with the expertise to review low level kernel code.

That is actually incorrect. The CentOS part of your installation invalidates your support contract/subscription for the RHEL part of the cluster.

Red Hat does not offer you the option of a mixed anvironment. It's either all Red Hat, supported, or mixed and completely unsupported.

I am with Red Hat on this one, actually.

I believe you are.

With Red Hat having jumped on board, Open Stack is going into a new direction that will not lead to fragmentation, but to consolidation. Red Hat's is one really good player in terms of Open Source. They throw resources at projects and they always do this upstream, delivering patches, enhancements, integration bits right where they belong and where they help the community best.

Red Hat is a guarantee that Open Stack will evolve into the next generation enterprise platform and VMware's CEO is either scared to death or simply a moron.

If the British used all the available computing and storage power of its secret data snorkeling, they might actually put the equipment to a more promising use than illegally spying on the rest of Europe.

We are seriously considering sponsoring github with a free platinum support and maintenance contract for the Linux cluster stack, i.e. DRBD, Heartbeat, Pacemaker, Corosync.

Would that help?

http://blogs.linbit.com/p/406/raspberry-tau-cluster/

I want that screen in a shiny, non-Apple laptop and load it with Linux.

<quote>Sad time? alt.tastless vs. rec.pets.cats? And when AOL users got on IRC... that was so much fun.</quote>

Oh, the memories.

Believe it or not, but we have just adopted two cats and named them "Sootikin" and "Choad" (I have vaccination documents to prove this). And just this summer I have had a great Steak in Cleveland with the Canadian guy who initiated the original war.

Yeah, most of you don't know what I am talking about, but a.t. in its original form was the best invention since the wheel was invented. I just wonder: Where do people openly talk about bodily fluids, politically incorrect rants these days?

<quote>You can't have that reliably in any phone connecting anywhere no matter the technology. The carries do not have the capacity to give you speeds in that level, you will end with a tenth of that in average if you are lucky.</quote>

Rubbish.

For the past 3 months my internet has come from wireless LTE with 100MBit down, 10MBit up at consistent speeds that put my previous cable connection to shame.

All this in a European capital with dense population and one of the highest rates of smartphones per inhabitant in the world. All this at 49 EUR a month with no data limit. And no restriction whatsoever; no URLs blocked, no services disallowed, streaming via p2p, VPN and ssh tunnels.

Austria has unlimited data plans.

I have a SIM card from drei.at that you can use without a contract and recharge on a monthly basis. It comes at 15 EUR a month and gives you high speed HSDPA+ without a cap. Also, my regular internet comes wireless these days: I have an LTE contract at 49 EUR a month that gives me unlimited 100MBit down and 10MBit up. I live in central Vienna and I actually get the advertised speeds.

There you go Sweden, plus we have better weather and better food (and we don't extradite ;-))

Use DRBD Proxy:

http://www.linbit.com/products-services/drbd-proxy/

Yes, it's a shameless plug; I work for the company, but for this specific purpose it's a unique and great tool and it gives you a lot more flexibility than using a commercial provider.

Since I work as sales director for an Open Source company, you will know my answer.

Tell your partner, that not only will you keep your technological advantage, but you will always be one step ahead of any competition if you work with a community. Be a leader for that community. Provide an infrastructure that makes communication easy among contributors. Inspire them by giving directions and accept input at the same time. Tell the community about your goals, let them be part of the story, inspire them to contribute and make yourself a desirable target for talent.

What you need is a clear focus on your business model. As an Open Source company you will market your know how, your unique expertise and tell everyone that you and only know are the ones to support a customers into the deepest abysses of technical problems. Find partners and share your expertise. Identify key contributors to the project and hire them. Be the experts in your field of knowledge and make yourself independent from a product that others can copy. Develop a business case, a sales pitch that potential customers will easily understand and identify as something that will bring a distinct advantage to their business by using your product.

One last thing: You will have lots more fun building an OSS company than going the closed way. You will be part of a community, you will lead it and you will continuously get input from intelligent people, input that otherwise will cost you dearly when hiring external consultants.

Uh, where did you get your numbers from?

LA to SF ist roughly 381 miles.

Going from Munich to Kiel (That's North to South in Germany between large cities) is about 540 miles.

And of course there are direct connections between these two cities by very comfortable train, which takes 7 hours.

* you want Suspend2RAM work on a notebook. Even an old T60p doesn't wake up after suspend

* you want DVB - There used to be a driver, but with the USB-stack rewrite this doesn't work anymore

* you actually want to use Flash

* you want to use your ext2/3/4 filesystem, say from your old /home

I like FreeBSD, in fact I started my *ix experience with 2.2.6, but for regular desktop use, the above are true show stoppers, at least for me.

I am fed up reporting bugs to KDE4, because the general attitude is that nothing is broken and that as a user one should adapt to KDE4's behaviour.

The most annoying thing for me is the total nonsense of system monitoring, which was perfect in KDE3, where you could adapt values, drag&drop sensors, adapt individual colors and select every imaginable sensor and put it into the panel.

These days you have very, very limited options, no chance to integrate a remote host via ssh, have a sensible readout of stuff like network throughput. These graphic representations are no more than estimates and basically useless for true monitoring.

Oh, yes, I reported this as a bug and the resulting "discussion" was what put me off KDE4 for good:

http://old.nabble.com/-Bug-216002--New%3A-Useless-display-of-system-load-%28and-network-usage%29-in-widget-td26502388.html