Rant about French government

[blackbird9]

Well, the title of the thread could be taken as an instruction to 'rant about the french government'

 

[DanielBowman]

I'm just a bit surprised they didn't choose one of the larger european distros, like Suse or even Ubuntu. Nixos seems to be quite a small outfit. But I wish them good luck, hopefully they will get some funding and support from the governments involved. It's always a healthy thing to have more options.

Suse is on sale it seems. And even before they were not exactly German company. Similar with Ubuntu. Some consortium or what not is deciding i.e. BlackRock.
Suse is trying to shift towards Kubernetes with heir microOS.
They even ditched their best asset the YAST. Seems like they are not interested in endpoint devices.

 

[Alain De Vos]

We could talk about politics all day, sitting around with something to drink. This ain't the place. Also, consider me having the short straw this weekend and I have to watch here and also watch my kids. That's not funny. But if someone has a suggestion for say, next weekend, we might get to sit around and exchange our views of world politics.

How far drive from Denderleeuw Belgium ?

 

[Alain De Vos]

I'm just a bit surprised they didn't choose one of the larger european distros, like Suse or even Ubuntu. Nixos seems to be quite a small outfit. But I wish them good luck, hopefully they will get some funding and support from the governments involved. It's always a healthy thing to have more options.

There is an interesting story about U.S. West-Coast versus East-Cost , when it comes to the history of FreeBSD & Unix & Linux (eg SCO & Solaris)

 

[blackbird9]

How far drive from Denderleeuw Belgium ?

You guys are welcome to come over here some time, and I will take you to some nice pubs in the New Forest. If you come in the autumn you can sample the damson beer.

 

[Crivens]

How far drive from Denderleeuw Belgium ?

Depends in the car. You may well look at 10h or so. I was planning to go to the polish baltic coast, as I am in northern Berlin.

 

[rbranco]

Suse is on sale it seems. And even before they were not exactly German company. Similar with Ubuntu. Some consortium or what not is deciding i.e. BlackRock.
Suse is trying to shift towards Kubernetes with heir microOS.
They even ditched their best asset the YAST. Seems like they are not interested in endpoint devices.

SUSE is not for sale. It's a German company. MicroOS is openSUSE. SLE Micro is indeed used for containers. SLES will continue to support traditional workloads.

 

[DanielBowman]

SUSE is not for sale. It's a German company. MicroOS is openSUSE. SLE Micro is indeed used for containers. SLES will continue to support traditional workloads.

Sorry. Must have misheard it then. Or the guy reported old news/speculations from March?
Alas it is offcially more of a Luxembourgh company....probably for tax purposes...I heard taxes in Germany are brutal.

 

[DanielBowman]

You guys are welcome to come over here some time, and I will take you to some nice pubs in the New Forest. If you come in the autumn you can sample the damson beer.
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Very nice. If someone wonders in to the vicinity of the most magical European city of Prague. You are welcome - even lodging can be arranged for house trained folk.
10 hours of fuel efficient drive from Brussels by car. 4 hours to 2 days by plane, depending on the condition of work force in the Brussels airport or 15 hours and gazzllion of euros by train - 1 hour wait for cennecting train in Cologne and 4 hours taking bus from Nuremberg because Apache indians took out the rails or something?

FYI. On Monday TESLA FSD Supervised was certified to drive in Czech Republic. Belgium and Netherlands already have that. But through Germany or Poland or Austria you will have to pretend to hold the wheel.

 

[Crivens]

I heard taxes in Germany are brutal.

By necessity, because us street walking buggers are often the only ones being there to tax. Mercedes Benz, for example, pays less tax than the cleaning lady that works the corridors. When you add up all the "social safety abuse" for a year you arrive at a number that the tax evaders have stolen when many are still drunk from new year partys.

the most magical European city of Prague

I went to Prague only once by now, and it was sadly in the middle of the tourist season. So most memories are about streets so packed that you are more inclined to think of a football stadium than a magical city. When would be a good time, so the phone stick waving types are maybe in hibernation?