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  • I thought this was going to be a thread debating the merits of the two disc formats, and I’m disappointed that it’s not. :(

    I know that particular format war didn’t last very long, but I wonder if there’s anything HD-DVD ended up doing better than Blu-Ray.

    As for the actual topic of this thread, I’m not sure if it’s the right analogy. Blu-ray and HD-DVD were incompatible with one another, while Kbin and Lemmy are mostly compatible. I’m not entirely sure what to compare it to, maybe Linux vs. BSD?






  • I’ve gotten used to adding extra drives in fstab, myself. I do wish adding permanent secondary drives was a more straightforward process though. I understand the Windows approach of making them instantly accessible has security implications, but I feel like that’s something distros could implement as an optional setting.

    I think little things like this hinder Linux adoption among end users. The purists may cry foul at this idea, but I think there should be more and better GUIs for system management tasks, so users don’t have to use the terminal or muck around editing text files as much.

    EDIT: Apparently gnome-disk-utility might be a solution if you’re looking for something more straightforward than manually editing fstab. I don’t know whether it can do permanent mounts or not though.

    EDIT2: Turns out gnome-disk-utility can create fstab entries, but it can’t remove them if you’ve used it to delete a partition.








  • Unless you happen to use Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or Oracle Linux. It doesn’t affect Debian, or Ubuntu, or openSUSE, or Arch, or anybody else.

    So, stupid question, but would Fedora be affected at all? I know that’s related to Red Hat, but I’m guessing it’s not affected since it’s not based on RHEL.

    It’s not a question of legality really, but more one of an ethical nature. It sort of depends on you, as to whether or not you’re bothered by RedHat doing this or not.

    I’d say I’m bothered by it, but there’s not really anything I can do about it. I’m disappointed the GPL doesn’t have stricter rules regarding the distribution of source code though. I feel like it kinda defeats the purpose if sources aren’t freely available to anyone who wants to use them.