I am a big proponent of the open source software philosophy but since I am no developer my contributions to open source comes in the form of usage, testing and promotion. In my mind it is one of many ways to combat the restrictive Enterprise solutions (which usually leans heavily on OSS anyway). There is …
Revisiting the thing about CentOS 8
So during this year Redhat (IBM) has figured they should further complicate their relationship with their community. This time it is not actually about CentOS directly but rather an attempt to prevent the likes of Alma/Rocky/Oracle to use their sources as a way to repackage as their own. The way they opted to go was …
Because I can
Sometimes in discussions with my friends and colleagues we fall into talking about what we currently are doing. Usually this might be about anything but sometimes we talk about things we are currently doing with different technologies. It usually boils down to someone asking the question “but why”. Usually the question is a valid query …
So about that thing with CentOS 8
As many might have heard, Redhat (and do not argue that they had no sway in this) is to end the CentOS 8.X support during 2021. This comes as a small (and nasty) surprise since CentOS has always been a downstream rebrand and release of Redhats RHEL. Instead we get CentOS 8 Stream which will …
Humble beginnings
This post will be the first in a series of articles and how to guides that will chronicle my virtual datacenter setup. This first post will walk you through the platform I will utilize and discuss a bit about how it is designed and setup. The hardware Requirements There were several requirements for the hardware …
Musings
Perspective of a Solutions architect In my daily work there is little room over for what you might call a singular attitude towards a certain technical solution or another. There are gradients of what can be considered good and bad of course. But agnosticism is more or less a requirement when the whole is to …
I am Free!
I daily come in contact with the notion that a Linux system may not compete with a similar function or system that is closed-source. But is this notion of free software really true? Many believe that since it is world-readable text this application is nothing more to think of then the pot-smoking hippie that wrote …
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