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Re:Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:42AM (#49815239)
Userspace containers don’t provide the level of reproducibility that is required for a scientific experiment, though.
I disagree. The poet Gary Snyder thought space travel was unimaginative - that living life as things are on earth was more interesting and challenging. Owning the Washington Post gives him control over a high visibility U.S. news operation. Nothing vanity about that.
ah, yes ... there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.
Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @09:27AM (#45346713)
I've mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, but installing TLP makes a huge difference for suspend on Linux laptops. https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html
Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @09:24AM (#45346681)
TLP is definitely the trick. TLP makes a huge difference in improving battery life while on suspend in Linux - especially since laptop makers stopped supporting S3 sleep.
I think people are missing the contribution of bootc and composefs. This is a big part of what undergirds Red Hat's new 'image mode' means of deployment. They're using container-related tooling to deploy whole operating systems, and it's a large part of where they're headed.

I write this to say, "This is not them dumping abandonware." To me, it's them putting these technologies under the supervision of a neutral third party to encourage adoption.