You don't actually know that. Right now IBM's strategy is to become RedHat to save it's cloud initiative after consulting alone failed. They used to push OS/2, Lotus and DB2. Lotus got sold. DB2 is dying. IBM morphs every decade or so into something new. RedHat will die, it's just when.

At best it will be Lotus Notes or OS/2, and live on with a small company somewhere after the fall.

By destroying trust, IBM has weakened the RedHat brand.

Take the hit and migrate to a free distro now. They can pull the plug at any time.

Sounds like we're going to continue to see select platform support with the financial backers listed. Too bad.

From a security perspective, rust is a good idea but it can't replace C if it can't run where C can.

Google already controls the web, no reason to go down to 2 engines instead of 3. Also, remember that apple and google can't get along at this. Google used to use webkit and forked blink because of it. It was the same engine previously!

Webkit is the most portable browser engine followed by firefox's engine. Killing webkit means killing browsers on some platforms entirely. Firefox is now limited to platforms and architectures that can run rust. Google refuses to take upstream patches for other operating systems.

Unifi gear does need a controller, but they have an ISP line (edgerouter, etc) that does not require a controller. It's the same hardware platform, but different software. Being able to login to one app and control all of your hardware is convenient and the unifi controller can run on linux, freebsd, windows or macOS in addition to a physical one. You can just spin up a VM for it if you want. The hardware device they sell can be powered over POE from the switch.

What CPU is in your desktop? I'm curious what that comparison is.

There are several factors in determining this. What is the OS used for? Why can't one upgrade more frequently?

If it's an embedded product, or an appliance, LTS releases make a lot of sense and really should support at least 4-5 years for many types of products to be viable. This is certainly true for IoT uses.

For servers, it's another story because we're in the era of spinning up new ec2 instances or using docker/kubernetees. If you do it right, it shouldn't be such a big deal to migrate to a newer OS beyond testing. Even so, ~3 years of support or more is ideal.

Desktop users can migrate more often for personal use, but in business environments you start getting into things like VPN and other security software. It's hard to control that and new versions are often not supported right away. If we're talking linux, the community has a break it and punt mentality on everything. It's hard to support many versions of software on linux. The latest pulseaudio hack or systemd damage and you're SOL. Next week they break dns resolving. So there's the enemy of the community mindset and security fighting each other.

When you start talking about mature operating systems, I think the sweet spot is around 4 years. Older than that and it's extremely difficult to support. For instance, there is no updated SSL library that is stable for 4 years. Look at the recent issue with FreeBSD patching 11.4. This isn't the project's fault, it's the pay to play mentality of that project. They don't want people hanging out on older releases very long so they dictate when everyone should update their OS.

For smaller projects, LTS isn't even a possibility because it cuts into the time to develop the software.

They don't have a house full of them, but you'd be surprised how many people have an echo or philips hue bulb.

Apple also hasn't released specs for getting it working natively instead of macOS with Linux. Running a VM isn't good enough. The most important point of all this is that when apple makes this m1 mac end of life, it will still have an OS that gets OS updates (Linux, *BSD, whatever)

First gen apple hardware gets killed fast.

It's also not just about Linux.

My work laptop has 32GB right now and I'm a software engineer. If you use docker, plus 8 copies of chromium (vscode, teams or slack, etc), plus 2 browsers, plus your IDE, you need at least 16GB. That's the low end. I'm using 24GB on my iMac right now. I have 64GB in my desktop PC.

There are workloads where you don't need more, but I honestly need 24GB for some tasks. If apple offered 24 or 32GB models, I'd be happy.

Also consider that the intel mac mini can support 64GB but the new one can only do 16. That's a big cut.

Then you get into the yesteryear sized SSDs. 1TB should be standard at this point. They're cheap now.

Most people don't even check for certs at all. That's why google is trying to force it to begin with. It's still a net win for security on the web.

How would you afford a Tesla?

I don't understand the free hosting is impossible thing. Let's encrypt exists. TLS certs are free.

News flash.. gnome is built on top of a LOT of libraries.

True, but the same crappy service remains. They kept something!