That sounds very much along my thoughts. Some workloads are supremely better at being containerized (such as things you would otherwise consider using a chroot jail for), and some aren't. But Docker allows you to easily replicate the same kind of environment for local development as production, which avoids the common "it works on my machine" problems even Vagrant VMs can have.

And then there are CaaS offerings like Amazon's Lambda/API Gateway and CodeBuild services that use containers even though you're not managing the actual container spinup/tear down yourself. CodeBuild is a great example of containerization; it's much more efficient/cost-cutting at small and medium compilation workloads than paying to run one or more full time Jenkins servers. (If you're thrashing Jenkins with continuous builds, then it might be cheaper to use EC2. Same with API Gateway and ECS; there is a break even point to running your own Docker clusters or instances vs using the other services, though that also means more operational overhead to manage those systems.)

Is containerization always best? No, it's just another tool in the arsenal. Knowing when to use what tool is always important.

They may not be the only problem, but they are a definite problem. Look at Cognizant, a company that I used to work for. It's headquartered here in the US, but 90% of it's workforce is in or from India. They're the #2 consumer of L1 visas in the US. How is it that an American company can get away with having more foreign nationals working in the US than US citizens?

L1 visas. Because unlike the H1B, they don't have to advertise a job publicly before granting it to the overseas person, they can just fill the job. And blanket L1 visas (like what Cognizant uses) belong to the company, not the person, so at any point they can shift one foreign citizen back home and bring in someone else to replace them... without giving them time to find another way to stay in the country if they want. So not only is it shitty to us as American citizens, it allows for great abuse of the people in the country under that visa.

If that doesn't scream "this is wrong", I don't know what does.

Blargh. I guess they're removing the classic desktop option in 11.10 and falling back to Unity 2D instead. Depends on exactly how that plays with GLX Dock, because that's what I use at the moment... I might have to look into XFCE.

Thanks for the heads up.

Blah, forgot to log in. That comment belongs to me.

Considering that there's a popup to install proprietary drivers like nvidia if your system detects it (and a few clicks to get it running), it's really much less of an issue than you're making it.

That said, isn't Lucid switching to Noveau by default?

I believe it was Solaris which first allowed live kernel updates without reboots... at the expense of a minor amount of memory being inaccessible until the box was rebooted. I think that was one of the big features of Solaris 7/8?