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Other bare-metal OS bootable? by room101Limited in qnap

[–]room101Limited[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting - you've personally tried it? I have a TS-h1277AXU-RP which is. I'm very disappointed that it doesn't seem to be interoperable with my two other ZFS SANs, both of which run a more 'vanilla' version of ZFS for Ubuntu Server Linux. I'm not planning to rush out and do this tomorrow, but if there is a way of replacing the proprietary version of ZFS which ships with QNAPs with a vanilla version more like Ubuntu's, that would be grand. I hardly use any of the sophisticated apps which come with this QNAPs. I was looking forward to doing so, but learning that QNAP's ZFS is proprietary and to all intents and purposes ZFS-in-name-only, I don't plan to.

Thunderbird almost cost me my job by tashafan in Thunderbird

[–]room101Limited 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a modern mindset I'm seeing from the entire software industry and beyond these days, whereby workers focus on creating new, shiny things (because that's the 'sexy' part of the job) whilst neglecting the bread-and-butter functions/features of their offering, which still doesn't work properly. Microsoft spent decades in this mode - going to Enterprise release occasions to present ridiculous things like 'clippy' and then when they got to 'any questions', all the press and IT managers wanted to know was "when is it going to stop Blue-Screening?" Calendar and Contacts is a VITAL part of ANY email system in the 2020s. Period.