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  • I used one with Fedora for a while. The problem I had is whenever it would randomly disconnect, Fedora could not handle it gracefully. It would lock up the system and require a hard reboot. Windows has been a bit more graceful about things. I’m hoping the next generation or maybe oculink will be better.






  • red hat virt is being deprecated soon, to be replaced by ovirt which is def not prod ready

    Not exactly. oVirt is the upstream open source project that Red Hat Virtualization was based on. It is never and will never be “production ready.” Because they don’t sell support for it.

    Red Hat does not have a replacement for RHV. You can use OpenShift Virtualization to make virtual machines, but it’s not designed to be a replacement for RHV or a competitor to VMware. It is designed to be a stepping stone for people looking to containerize their workloads or keep that one legacy app around that can’t be containerized. You might be better served by OpenStack, but that’s an entire cloud orchestration tool, and the next version will require OpenShift to host the control plane.

    Nutanix is probably the best competitor to VMware. Proxmox is another solution that would be great for small to medium businesses. SUSE’s Rancher team is working on Harvester, which could become something that competes. Honestly, there isn’t a lot of competition in this market because it’s not where growth is. People are moving to containers and kubernetes. Even VMware knows it and they are playing catch up with Tanzu.

    Source: I’m a consultant for Red Hat.



  • It was always going to fail. At that point, Twitter as a company only recently started actually making a profit. What Musk did is called a leveraged buy-out where someone takes out a loan to buy a company. The company that is bought out is then responsible for paying that loan. Remember when I said they just barely had started making money? Well, now they have so much debt that they not only have to make enough money to cover their previous expenses, but also cover the payments for this new loan, and the new loan has interest that creates additional debt of $1 billion a year. How is a company that struggles to make money suddenly going to come up with an extra $1 billion a year? Charging for checkmarks? There aren’t enough users… That’s why he is so desperate. He knows that by making that joke offer, he royally screwed himself when Twitter called his bluff and forced him to buy. I think he just wanted an excuse to sell some Tesla stock that he knew was overvalued but had said he wouldn’t sell.