Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 20:46:43 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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   Anything Azure can do, Linux can do better - and cheaper.

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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/linux-on-azure/
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Azure is a cloud provider the same as AWS. If you want to run Linux, fine.
In fact they have their own version.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux
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I am more familiar with AWS but I wouldn't be surprised if the whole
operation isn't running on Linux. Amazon has their own version.
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https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/kvm/
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We have several clients that use Stratus HA systems. As far as they're
concerned the VMs are Windows. If you poke around with WireShark or
similar utilities you find the whole shebang is running on RHEL and using
KVM. Stratus originally used Xen but switched. That may have been RHEL
switching.
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It's back to the ongoing argument. Desktop Linux may be a niche thing but
when you look at what's holding up most of the infrastructure it's Linux.
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Many years ago, more than a decade actually, I was involved at the fringes of a huge project migrating a global corporations local SAP environment to Azure.
It turned out that Azure had done something weird when emulating NIC:s inside their VM:s, which broke the clustering of the SAP environment when moved from on prem to the cloud.
Since it was a global corporation, M$ rewrote parts of the NIC code in Azure to accomodate them.
Now, a decade+ later, news reached me that the global corporation is letting go massive amounts of local IT people. I would expect them to then turn around and hire massive amounts of "cloud" people at 2x the salaries. ;)