The Doctor

You can have them installed next to one another. Just like you can have Firefox and Links installed at the same time. Or twm and gnome3. It comes down to how much work you want for yourself.

Depends on your distro, I think.

If only for the sake of one’s CV. Making your bones by having a couple of 0-days under your belt helps a lot of folks find jobs these days.

It is. That’s why Wayland is being pushed so hard, it’s a codebase that’s actually maintainable, with hopefully some more modern design and engineering principles.

Agreed.

You can install more than one desktop environment at a time. Your login manager should let you pick which one you want to log into.

I’m running MATE on my laptop. It gives me what I need (a task bar, space for some instrumentation, the usual desktop functionality, a way to start applications) and nothing that I don’t care about (wobbling windows, compiz, stuff like that). My DE is a tool; I use tools that don’t get in my way because I have work to do.

I might give COSMIC a try in a few months, I haven’t decided yet.

When I could get away with it at work, I did.

In the last… I want to say six or seven years, issuing Macbooks to sysadmins has been a common thing in the sectors I work in. Rather than put up with us going rogue and messing up license tracking by rebuilding our stuff with a distro of choice, management just throws OSX at the problem (us, we’re the problem) because operationally it’s close enough for our purposes.

It’s not my choice or preference, but the money’s green.

Hey - an explanation. Who’da’thunk it?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements

Ah, the Crypto Wars…

Nah. If anything, USian and non-Russian companies will add one or two more devs to their efforts to take up the slack. Linux is the bedrock of their revenue streams.

The US and EU governments have the criteria for sanctions available.

• https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/sanctions-against-russia-explained/
• https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/sanctions-related-to-significant-malicious-cyber-enabled-activities
• https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/russian-harmful-foreign-activities-sanctions
• https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/FAQ/sanctions-against-russia/faq-russland-sanktionen.html
• https://www.trade.gov/russia-sanctions-and-export-controls

Probably because the advice in question was lengthy and technical (subtype: laws and legality), and the short form had the disclaimer "Please don’t publish the short form because it’s too much like giving legal advice.) Something similar happened back in 2012 with Project Byzantium, when we were consulting with the EFF with respect to having cryptographic libraries included in the distro.

Arguably, ITAR set the precedent in the 1990’s during the crypto wars. USians used to have to travel to Canada to work on cryptographic code in OpenBSD because their commits couldn’t legally be exported.

Money and violence, the twin forces that make the world go 'round.

But then there would be no Internet! /s

Somebody testing their latest botnet before trying to monetize it?

Let’s see… Ventoy is a tool intended for sysadmins to use.

Something sketchy is going on in a tool sysadmins use when working on the crown jewels.

What could possibly go wrong? /s

New York, DC, and LA as well. If one doesn’t want a polite knock, one doesn’t speak ill of the CCP.

All of my servers make local dumps of their databases and config files to directories owned by unprivileged users. This includes file paths, permissions, and ownerships (so I know how to put them back).

My primary research server at home uses rsync to pull copies of those local backups from my servers.

My primary research server uses Restic to make a daily incremental backup to Backblaze’s B2 service.