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Comment The solution. (Score 2) 1198

The state should not have the power to sentence an individual to death, but death should be available to those who would choose it.

Our government should not kill. A maximum sentence of life in prison is all the force that it should be able to employ against any individual.

If a person sentenced to life does not wish to continue the sentence, then they should have the option to request an end to it. After suitable mental evaluation, and assuming they are resolute, they should have what they seek.

This brings morality and transparency into the process. This is the right thing to do.

Comment Proliant Nightmare (Score 2) 100

I deployed a DL380p Gen8 last year, and it gave me heart failure.

Under Red Hat, I needed to change the IP address, so I modified the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 then did a "service network restart"

Alas, the box did not come up on the new IP. Got to the console which was blank and unresponsive. Power cycled, and the RAID array was GONE (and let's just say this was EXTREMELY inconvenient timing).

Support was able to walk us through some BIOS disk recovery that (thankfully) worked. But I'll never change the IP address on a Proliant without a full reboot.

Comment I can't say that I understand systemd... (Score 1) 360

...but it seems to be a key player in Project Atomic.

This seems to be Red Hat's analog of Solaris "Zones" which let you give root to someone you don't trust in an isolated sandbox on your system. It appears to go further than zones in that you can exchange these sandbox images, with all of their installed software, with other systems. This lets you virtualize without running multiple kernels, yeilding a tremendous savings of memory. The additional assertion is that 3rd party software sales will be of these complete sandbox images, not an RPM/tarfile.

I will have a bit of studying to do for Red Hat 7. These are compelling new features, seemingly well worth the initial bugs.

p.s. just don't pass debug to grub.

Comment Au contrare, mon frere. (Score 1) 240

The "free software community" had quite a bit to say on gtk vs qt.

The design of KDE was based on a fundamental mistake: use of the Qt library, which at the time was non-free software. Despite the good intentions of the KDE developers, and despite the fact that the code of KDE itself was free software, KDE could never be part of a completely free operating system as long as it needed a non-free program to function.

Comment Raspberry Pi-class hardware - BeagleBone Black? (Score 4, Interesting) 290

I would like to run OpenBSD on the Raspberry Pi.

I understand, sympathize, and accept your decision to avoid that platform, but what would you recommend as a stable substitute?

The BeagleBone Black seems like the endorsed alternative, although there were stability warnings until recently. The current status reads: "There are generally still a fair number of things to do on each of these boards, however OpenBSD is generally considered to be usuable on them. The platform is now self hosting, however there is no SMP support."

Would you point OpenBSD users interested in this hardware class at the BeagleBone Black? Any other advice? SLC media preference?

TI has announced that it is discontinuing the OMAP line. Will Beagle move to another ARM licensee, and does that matter much for OpenBSD?

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