So what are the 500 CVEs?

Between this and off-shoring a ton of IT to India, this is pretty much how it is for us. Manager is no longer 1/2 a state away, but still in a building and we rarely see him in person. ALL meetings are done via teams. We collab all day long via Teams chat just fine, but still RTO required. I show up, sit in a cube with noise cancelling headphones on while I listen to something on my ipad... rarely chat with but 1 or 2 other team members that are local. Only a handful of meetings all YEAR really need to be in person.

I'll just leave this here:

https://github.com/wasi-master...

"misconfigurations" If you use a trivially guessable root password or install sketchy vulnerable third party software all bets are off regardless of how good Linux is. But I bet that had they had SELinux enforcing or running fapolicyd (standard built in security features) they wouldn't have been hacked.

PHP has been a disaster since the beginning. People start out as novice programmers who don't know about better with PHP and it happily lets them shoot themselves in the foot. It's as if the language was specifically designed to encourage it, even. Also check out https://reddit.com/r/lolphp for a long list of PHP fails. Go update your WordPress and all plugins, too. You know it needs it.

I am founder/mod on 8 subreddits. They are not censored or "managed" in any way other than removing obvious commercial spam and harmful scams solely per my own personal preferences as the moderator. I've never had any communications with reddit corporate.

Also, fuck you /u/spez for turning off the API for third party apps.

https://reddit.com/r/lolphp

I was 100% Linux since before Win 95 came out. Windows 3.1 was the last Windows I ever had installed on any machine I owned.

How does secure boot reduce malware? Boot sector viruses etc have been out of style for decades. All of the malware that I'm familiar with did it's thing after the boot process. It seems like it is protecting against a largely theoretical attack.

I just checked and it looks like my post history only goes back to 2011? DId slashdot dump all of the older stuff? :((((

My UID number here is four digits. I used to write a LOT here. So unfortunate if they had to blow away all of the old stuff.

I saw this on Facebook, commented there, but then decided I should log in here, just for old time's sake, and comment the same:

The year of the Linux Desktop was 1995 for me.

Check my post history going back nearly that far. Wow, I haven't logged into slashdot in many years. Once Facebook, reddit, etc. came along they totally replaced slashdot in my mind. I'm glad to see that it's still here.

> Your organizational skills are quite a bit above average.

And that, in and of itself, is very sad and telling of the lack of basic education people are getting anymore. I'm Gen-X and went to a private school (after starting in public and our parents seeing how much that system was already failing back in the 1970s) and we did things there like having some basic monetary education in the 8th grade. We were each given a mimeograph (ah, the smell) set of checks, then we each drew our "job" from a random list and had to do simple budgets based on said income. I'll never forget that the Doctor made a "massive" $75k in 1987 (though the values we were using were already quite old).

Late to the party but..

Here's my entirely personal opinion/experience with Linux Enterprise support for the last nearly20 years now (started supporting linux in house in the early 2000s), we were a 99% Solaris house (a few HP-UX) until even our ISVs were saying that everything they were doing was going linux on x86 (then x86_64) as SPARC was quickly falling behind (yet still cost insanely more $).

RedHat: Was SUPER expensive when it first went RHEL. They initially wanted something like $1600/server/year for x86_64 hosts, set based on what MS was asking at the time. They refused to work with us to split up licensing hosts vs paying for support. Granted, I later learned that our rep at the time was a bit of a jerk and it was probably more him vs the company. Everyone I know that uses RHEL in house, pays for a few critical boxes, runs most on the equiv CentOS to save a ton of $. They are stable and do regular releases though.

Ubuntu/Canonical: FAR more interested in being bleeding edge than stable. Is beloved by SW devs, is way too bleeding edge for HW dev use/compute (I support IC design engineers and the ISVs are SUPER slow at adopting releases so Ubuntu is WAY too fast.. they have a hard time keeping up with RHEL/SLES). They're terrible at outputting patches for things like the automounter, often being years (yes, really) behind.

SUSE/SLES: We started working with them right when Novell bought them and they wanted a foot in the door. They were very willing to split up the cost to license running on hosts/CPUs vs paying for support, which made them far more affordable. They go out of their way to help us work with the ISVs whenever possible. The support response times and quality is fantastic (I have a few co-workers who's dealt with all 3 "enterprise" support channels and they all say SUSE is the best, by far).

Honestly RHEL and SUSE are pretty close as far as stability and sticking to release schedules and all, but my own experience has put SUSE on a level above RHEL overall. Sadly I think RH has coasted far too long on the continued belief that "RHEL is _the_ enterprise linux distro that everyone supports." SUSE was the scrappy competition for quite awhile there and had to really fight to stand out and make a bigger name for themselves. I know of at least one massive chip maker that is nearly completely SUSE in house aside from our IC compute farm, but we have this interesting mix where it's:

IC Engineering compute: SLES
SW devs: Ubuntu
Everyone else/corp: CentOS/RHEL

I remember when MP3s were new and artists were upset that people didn't have to buy the whole album. We heard a lot of bleating about how an album is one unit of art and should be enjoyed as such. Artists can be such whiny bitches. They got over that once they figured out how to be paid for individual songs (iTunes etc). Take your money and leave us to enjoy it as we wish.

People love to attack the top dog(s).