Notices by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social), page 3

I've reached the point in my writing career when I find an old blog post on some deep technical topic, and have absolutely zero recollection of writing it lol

Good news for those wanting to build out a custom Arm64 desktop:

ASRock Rack has a mobo+Ampere CPU combo that restocks every few weeks on Newegg: https://newegg.com/p/N82E16813140134

And Noctua's prototyping two new LGA 4926 coolers (pictured: NH-D9 AMP-4926 4U)

I am building out my 45Drives HL15 server with this board and will hopefully have a video up on it soon!

Full review will take longer though—need to test out software, get an idea of power draw, test performance/networking... but so far so good!

This laptop was MADE to be HACKED! I tested the open-source-hardware-laptop, the @minut_e Reform. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DA0Jr4WH-4

Happy 1700000000 seconds everyone! https://www.epochconverter.com

Yeah, I'd say this filter was ready for replacement... it's been a good 7 years.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is 2.5x faster than the Pi 4 (sometimes more!), and I have the FULL rundown — let me walk you through it in this thread. #RaspberryPi #Pi5

We're reaching an era in infra ops where the giant corporation-owned tooling is closing its doors, and more open 2nd systems are being built like Kargo (from Argo creators), OpenTF (from Terraform users), and JetPorch (from Ansible creator).

Wild time to be nimble.

@mattl @brion @brainwane @geerlingguy@bird.makeup video is hard—1-2 hours of work per minute for a well-produced video. And then no easy way to update it over time.

So IMO often the resources are better put toward documentation, though community tutorial videos are highly encouraged since they're a great (maybe the best today) on-ramp for new users.

I'm sure @bcantrill is could fill out a book now with examples of companies who are using parts of his "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns" presentation for a template...

Requiring copyright assignment, using anti-competitive licenses instead of open source...

@dango_ I'd tend to trust the FSF more than some other entities, but still not like the idea regardless.

As belts tighten, corporate #opensource evolves—further and further from the ideals of Free Software.

Partly due to bad actions by "freeloaders," but also companies putting too much value in building code, and not enough on community and support. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

To Red Hat employees barking about "not all contributions are accepted" or "that's not how open source works!", go have a read of the CentOS Contributor's Guide.

The Alma contributor yesterday followed it to a T.

Though, I admit the most relevant section is just two TODOs.

Red Hat: Rebuilders contribute n̶o̶ ̶v̶a̶l̶u̶e̶ negative net value to RHEL. Contribute to CentOS Stream!

Rebuilder
@almalinux: okay we'll build off CentOS Stream. [Proceeds to submit patch to Fedora + Stream for a CVE against iperf3]

Red Hat: No, not like that!

All-flash NAS fight! DIY or Buy, part III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QH8Dj6g_Nk

This time, the Rock 5 model B faces off against ASUSTOR's new Flashstor unit!

And yes, my work is now published as CC BY-SA.

Meaning Red Hat could rebuild it and sell it to their customers if they wanted.

And you know what? I'm okay with that.

But I'd rather you just get a free copy from me directly: https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/CTVMPCbEeXd3

Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/self-publishing-technical-book-10-years #writing #selfpublishing

I've also donated $1,000 to Debian today, to thank them for providing me with a free, consistent OS to use to test my code and run it in production #OSSThanks

Red Hat's response: https://redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

So... it *was* all about the "freeloaders". Can people stop telling me that this whole thing wasn't about freeloaders now? #redhat #opensource

Red Hat: those who use open source code and don't contribute back are "a real threat to open source companies everywhere"

I call them: users.

I fight for the users.

Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/removing-official-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux