Chef and Puppet are huge in DevOps. It seems Ruby has found its niche.

Isn't it LOW pressure sodium? The low pressure ones have that orange look. They are extremely power efficient, but they give off a narrow spectrum of light. I have heard cops and paramedics hate them because it is hard to tell what is blood, oil, or water spilled on a street.

I'm a Linux systems admin... specifically the hot word these days is "DevOps". I code Ruby/Chef all day. So I flip desktops from web/terminals/email/irc all day. A lot of terminal/ssh stuff. A lot of editing files. I run about 3-5 KVM machines on my desktop box for testing (using virt-manager).

I understand some of the complaints. It get it. But, wow, Gnome is looking really good! It will be interesting to see how this new menu layout works. So far I haven't had any complaints in Gnome 3. I've been using Gnome everyday since it was initially released in the RedHat/Fedora distros. I've had more complaints with the bumps in the road with Fedora over the years than Gnome itself.

I just starting playing with Arch. It's okay, but it is not a solution for serious work. RHEL/CentOS the way to go for serious tasks. RedHat has done a great job writing real management tools that allow an admin to control and manage hundreds of machines. The FreeIPA/RH IDM project itself has be long overdue in the land of Linux. For me, I stick with Fedora on my notebook and RHEL/CentOS on the server. Fedora keeps me up to date with that is on the horizon of RHEL. Fedora has the management tools that other distros lack. I have tons of respect for RedHat. Keep up the good work!

Don't get me wrong, I do like my middle-click paste. If this is due to Wayland, I'm okay with it. I would not be surprised that Wayland removes this most basic function because it is redundant to have more than one type of copy buffer. One of the main reasons for Wayland is to get rid of the crud in X that has built up over the yeas. If that means loosing one of the past buffers, fine with me. People, get over it!

There *was* an issue with updates for the initial CentOS 6 release, but that hasn't been an issue for awhile. The last update to RHEL (6.4), CentOS had the release out in something like 9 days. Normal day-to-day updates keep pace. I haven't had any issues.

Coal plants have already been shutting down due the fact that natural gas is cheaper. Since we've been building natural gas plants, our carbon emissions are down to 1990's levels. Funny thing, we didn't even sign Kyoto, yet we did better than most (all?) countries in reducing carbon.

I think it is likely placebo. This is the first I've ever heard that people complain about LED lights. On the other hand I *still* hear people complain about fluorescent lights despite the fact that it is pretty rare to find ones driven by magnetic ballasts anymore.

I still hear people complaining about fluorescent lighting despite the fact that CLF's have electronic ballasts that use extremely high frequencies. I could understand the old, old lights that used magnetic ballasts, but CLF's? Really? Seriously? People can see 40,000Hz on a properly working tube bulb? It is not like a monitor with tiny phosphors where I could see the scanning. LED's flicker way more than I ever noticed fluorescent lights. To make matters worse, LEDs are used in many more places! I noticed the flickering from the taillights in newer cars, gadgets, LED equivalent bulbs that dim, etc.

"Hey, we're not throttling. It is just that our peering is maxed out. Use this other service, it works better for our customers."

Totally legit way of doing this. I haven't seen any Net Neutrality discussions cover this possibility.

I thought Rackspace works closely with RedHat. So Rackspace probably gets a pretty good deal if they run RHEL.

oVirt is part of the RHEV product. RHEV is compared to VMWare. OpenStack is something different, but they both use KVM for virtualization. OpenStack is for computing on demand. RHEV, like VMWare is designed to manage the full life cycle of a OS and application deployment.

OpenStack in cloud. Cloud is more than VM's. VMWare is about VM's. RedHat's answer to VM's is RHEV. RHEV is not as complicated as OpenStack.

People, please do NOT use OpenStack as a replacement for VMWare, you will be burned!

I remember reading an article years ago about how Yahoo! only payed for half of their transit costs. Since they were/are such a huge content provider, many ISP's wanted to peer with them. It makes complete sense to connect content to eyeballs in the most cost effective way possible. This has been going on for ages. This is now the Internet works, reducing transit costs by peering is nothing new.

The only difference in this case is that Netflix doesn't want to push their super HD content over their transit links. I would expect that ISP's don't want it either. The solution is a win-win for ISP's, especially ones that have a lot of Netflix customers.

This has always been my point with net neutrality. Net neutrality is worried about traffic shaping, etc, but I could prefer one VoIP provider over another by making sure the peering connection to their network is low latency compared to the transit link. I'm not shaping the competing traffic or blocking it.