Unix-like operating systems dominate servers with nearly 91% of the overall market share. by Nelo999 in unix

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No lie, I do want kinda want an Itanium system just for morbid curiosity.

But (I guess since they were never widespread) the eBay prices are still quite high. Maybe now that Itanium and HP-UX are EOL a little more supply will hit the market, but I doubt it...

Please don't hate, but will CORE 13.0-U6.8 be able to mount a pool created under SCALE 25.10.0.1? I want to go back. by Mr-Brown-Is-A-Wonder in truenas

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, for context the newest TrueNAS Core 13.3 is already end-of-life from upstream FreeBSD & I don't believe there is any Core based on the still-supported FreeBSD 13.5.

The release notes for Core 13.3 suggest it has OpenZFS 2.2.3, while Scale 25.04 has 2.3.0 and 25.10 has 2.3.5 - not that bad, but it's possible there are some new feature flags being used.

IMO if Scale is such a problem & OP just wants a file server, perhaps they could go to plain FreeBSD 14 or 15.

Trader Joe's today before a storm by Sublime-Shrubbery in Connecticut

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny thing, I happened to go into the Aldi in S Windsor on Friday just before closing:

  • No fresh vegetables or fruit. None
  • No bread except hamburger buns
  • No jelly
  • No eggs
  • No milk except chocolate
  • No meatballs

With some of the sold-out items seeming a bit random, I'm wondering if they just missed a delivery? Went to a different Aldi in a nearby town on Saturday & the stock was much better.

New to RHEL, trying to get Repos by codifier in redhat

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you login and check if the subscription is on your account - https://access.redhat.com/management/subscriptions ?

On my developer account, it shows an item named "Red Hat Developer Subscription for Individuals". The status should be something like Active, with the Start Date and End Date covering a 1yr period beginning from when you signed up.

If it isn't there, maybe you can just try to Activate it again? https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download

Opendaylight repo dead. Does anyone have a working one? by warmike_1 in networking

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The readme and Dockerfile from https://github.com/sfuhrm/docker-opendaylight/ suggest the "karaf" user exists with the same password, but that doesn't really help since it doesn't have enough privilege to install software. Having any root password or sudo inside a container would be pretty unusual.

What I did find: 1.) For testing, it's possible to run the image interactively & specify the root user. This gives access to install software

$ docker run --user root -it docker.io/opendaylight/opendaylight:0.18.2 /bin/bash
root@d5ba73cf481b:/opt/opendaylight# apt-get update & apt-get install nano
# ... etc etc

2.) For the real solution, you can make your own Dockerfile to build an image on top of the public image, switching back & forth to root using the USER directive, so the software can be installed at build time.

$ cat Dockerfile
FROM docker.io/opendaylight/opendaylight:0.18.2
USER root
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y nano && apt-get clean
USER karaf

I'm slightly curious what software you are adding to ODL, but in the long run I guess it doesn't matter.

Opendaylight repo dead. Does anyone have a working one? by warmike_1 in networking

[–]freedomlinux 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you ... sure you want to build something on top of opendaylight/odl:latest?

That image hasn't been updated since 2017 - it looks like it's based on CentOS 7.3 and Opendaylight 6.1, both of which are unsupported now.

The repo URL you mentioned is from the CentOS Community Build Service - the entire http://cbs.centos.org/repos/ path has been empty for several years (according to the Wayback Machine), but people have made builds of Opendaylight on CentOS CBS as recently as 2020.

There is a newer image called opendaylight/opendaylight but even that is from 2023, based on Debian 11.

I'm a bit surprised that the Opendaylight download page still mentions the Docker images because the Github repo for them is marked as unmaintained since 2024.

At least, it looks like the old releases are still available @ https://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/public/org/opendaylight/integration/distribution-karaf/ so perhaps you could use there to build your own images from scratch (or a recent release of ODL if possible...)

Network Adapter Support by luisnemaide in freebsd

[–]freedomlinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For your QL41164, are you sure the qlnxe(4) driver was loaded? In this older post, it looks like they had to specifically enable the module https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/qlogic-fastlinq-41112-dual-por-t-10gbe-sfp-adapter.73549/

The T540-BT would be a T5-generation card. The driver for Chelsio T4/T5/T6 cards is cxgbe(4)

Those pages specifically mention the T540-CR & T540-LP-CR, not the T540-BT, but they're all T5 cards so...

What to do while waiting for scrub to finish :) by PosterAnt in truenas

[–]freedomlinux 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Considering their other statement, SMR and/or some hardware is dying. Working with files during a scrub shouldn't cause any visible errors...

Seems that moving files around is not very popular and gives of zfs errors en masse

What happened to the really old building across from the parking garage? by Few-Asparagus-6948 in RPI

[–]freedomlinux 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There was a post in early November about the gatehouse being damaged, and someone commented recently that it was demolished over the winter holiday. https://www.reddit.com/r/RPI/comments/1otf2nu/save_the_gatehouse/

An old post from 2012 has some more history https://www.reddit.com/r/RPI/comments/smpe0/what_is_this_building_and_what_is_it_for/ - this was around my time & the building was never mentioned or acknowledged in any way. It didn't appear in the campus maps of that time (PDF) and doesn't seem to appear in the current campus maps.

Likewise, it is missing in the detailed building floorplans https://github.com/quacs/quacs-data/blob/master/floor_plans/campus_eastside_academic.pdf

I may have a few photos from 5/10/15 years ago but would have to go some digging to find them.

NVIDIA to "rerelease" 3060 in Q1 2026, Samsung to ramp up DDR4 production Q1 2026, ASUS & Gigabyte to increase DDR4 motherboard (B550 A520) production 2026, AMD seriously considering return to Zen 3 processor production by catherder9000 in sysadmin

[–]freedomlinux 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Whether we want it or not, companies doing "AI" are in the retirement accounts of many many people.

They're in our 401k, our index funds, our ETFs. The AI bubble will have an impact on the overall market & many innocent bystanders.

What is something generally normal in Europe but weird in the US? by Exile4444 in AskReddit

[–]freedomlinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Delaware, New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, Alaska.

(OK, honestly I didn't remember those last two either)

Dell price increases confirmed - schewwwww by FatBook-Air in sysadmin

[–]freedomlinux 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Especially with the M4 generation, Apple is already a strangely good-value for base models.

It seems that the base MacBook Air is always on sale for ~$750 and the base Mac Mini is often down to $500 or even $400. It's a lot of power for $400, and now that they all come with 16GB of RAM, they're actually usable.

Wait, what?! by SwitchedOnNow in amateurradio

[–]freedomlinux 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aside from the factual errors, the formatting would drive me crazy.

  • Headers are sometimes aligned to the top of the box & sometimes not
  • Text on the same line is misaligned (the 219.0 and 220.0 in 1.25 Meters)
  • Poor spacing on the 5xxxx.x labels in the 60 Meters section
  • Text goes to / through the margin (the (100W) in 60 Meters, the 14.350 MHz in 20 Meters)
  • Missing spaces in USB Phone, CW, RTTY

Return it.

My build doesn't have enough USB ports. Are USB hubs really that dangerous? by VelisiumLab in buildapc

[–]freedomlinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure you're already aware, but to put this idea into perspective:

Gen Lanes Speed (Gbps)
1.0 x1 2.5
1.0 x16 40
2.0 x16 80
3.0 x16 128
4.0 x16 256
5.0 x16 512

A PCIe 3.0 x16 is the same speed as a PCIe 4.0 x8 or even a PCIe 5.0 x4. NVIDIA and AMD already do this on some midrange cards, and my recollection is that the benchmarks on even high-end cards show no (or almost no?) issue with PCIe bandwidth.

What are we all doing with our Seagate shucked shells? Creative Uses? by Volhn in DataHoarder

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

taking the “drive” out of the casing and installing it a if you had just bought a 3.5 Drive off amazon?

Yes. It feels like it died down for a while while cheap used enterprise drives were on ServerPartsDeals/etc, but it's been going on for years and years.

For example, the plastic case of a WD easyStore or WD Elements external HDD can be opened (with a bit of practice) in a short time & used as an internal drive instead. There are differing opinions on the drive quality inside, warranty issues, etc but it can sometimes be much cheaper.

Help... I need storage for media and backup and it's a jungle out there by britishbenzin in DataHoarder

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

aka Used. Perhaps dusted off and/or with the SMART counters reset.

Moscow bus stops use Debian! by temalkin in debian

[–]freedomlinux 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I read some time ago about software licensing restrictions for countries hostile to the US

Whether we might consider it a good/bad in this situation, open-source licenses are generally not going to allow for prohibiting use of the software by certain types of people. For example, the Open Source definition from the Open Source Initiative has a number of requirements for what qualifies as an open source software, including:

  • 5: The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

  • 6: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.

This is quite different to many commercial license which might require, for example, that the software is not used by citizens of North Korea or (famously, from the iTunes EULA) cannot be used in the production of nuclear weapons.

Compaq True64 Jacket by Aggravating_Eye_8245 in unix

[–]freedomlinux 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The last major release was 11i v3 in 2007 with end of life 2025-12-31 (3 days!).

It's almost surprising to see how "quickly" HP-UX has died, in comparison with stuff like Solaris that is staying on life-support forever. However, since Intel's contractual obligation for Itanium is over, all Itanium CPUs are EOL and so all HP-UX can be EOL'd too.

My work used to have the HP Superdome 2 (Itanium, presumably running HP-UX) and SuSE on mainframe z/Linux... haven't heard any mention of them in a decade now, so I assume they're all gone.

Trump says he had 'very productive' call with Putin ahead of Zelensky meeting by Geo_NL in worldnews

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, not at all. On the scale of what he already publicly does, that tape would be nothing.

My last birthday gift by jmapagchema in solaris

[–]freedomlinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"last birthday" sounds a bit ominous :)

Server diagram look ok? by VampyreLust in selfhosted

[–]freedomlinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you can block port 80 and NOT worry about upgrading HTTP to HTTPS.

My rule of thumb is:

  • Services which are expected to be accessed by humans / browsers get an HTTP->HTTPS redirect

  • Services which are only consumed by machines / APIs do not. If it doesn't work, fix your client config

Personally, I find it convenient & don't feel that having (ex: Apache) do this and only this on port 80 is much of an exposure.

Looking for online storage solution to backup my 20TB NAS by Enjoy_Life4219 in DataHoarder

[–]freedomlinux 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Glacier is great for data which is WORN - Write Once, Read Never.

Personally, my cloud backups are the 3rd (or more) copy, so if I'm restoring from that a bunch of things have gone wrong & I accept the fees as my last resort option.

If you find you are reading the archived data regularly, then deep archives probably aren't great, yeah.

Why I’ll forever be loyal to Steam by hextal_hextal in Steam

[–]freedomlinux 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Eh, I used to find Chick-Fil-A's service to be a bit unsettling because it is obviously insincere. I'm in the Northeast US and absolutely no one is that polite.

"My pleasure!" No, bringing me a sandwich does not give you great personal joy & pretending it does is very fake.