TL;DR: The answer is an astounding NO.
IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.
TL;DR: The answer is an astounding NO.
Don’t forget Pulse audio!
Storage vendors are rolling their hands in delight while systems administrators, particularly backup admins are cringing at the thought.
Old story: There was a sale at a big box Electronics store on Seagate Barracuda SCSI-2 Wide 9.1GB drives and I bought 6 of them to give me a 40GB RAID-5 on an old mylex dac960 scsi raid card. Bigtime storage in 1999.
Those fed my 3:1 ratio mp3 sharing site that my uunet bot advertised haha.
Sylvartas is right, it’s an old flatbed scanner.
My 1999 setup running Slackware while playing Loki’s Civ CTP
Daily Linux user since Slackware 95, news to me too lol
sorry, missed the /s, but figured the tree was still worth seeing for some.
#echo “” > $1; echo “Debutu”
Debian was first in that line. Here’s the Linux family tree
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
It got too close to the Apples and was corrupted.
Yeah, we dumped Cisco for Aruba two years ago. Completely replaced the entire company core network infra. No major complaints.
On the Enterprise side of things, I was a huge VCE fan pre-Dell days. Only thing close to that now is Pure Flashstack, which isn’t bad, just pricey. I’m just not a Dell fan, Michael Dell is a fuck-whit.
Comparing my experience with Cisco B and C Class, HPE DL and Dell PE server experience over the past 20 years:
Cisco: Expensive, Good support/service during lifetime of product, excellent management tools w/o buying additional lics, reliable, but eosl/eol is short and poorly supportable after.
DELL: Just retired some 30 of their servers and storage. No regrets. Expensive, horrible support, licensing is a nightmare, but e360 and online tools were better than others. EOL/EOSL support is okay for a max of 2 yrs afterwards.
HPE: Just deployed 20 DL380G10+, Cheaper than other 2, licensing is a pita, support is meh, but InfoSight and support costs are cheap and there’s good support past eol/eosl.
I’ve done the whole white box thing like SuperMicro a number of times and while it is cheaper upfront, it’s a headache over time.
Fun fact: When a rabbit is dying they scream like a baby, literally, to alert other rabbits. They’re definitely stupid in many ways, but they do have some built in survival tactics.
Source: Used to raise and eat rabbits.
Amazon Price tracker and other similar ones for big box stores help dispel that thankfully.
Lmao, was thinking the same thing.
Then there’s California where NEM 3.0 makes it less than worth while to install or upgrade your existing solar installation.
It’s like people hate ads so much they’re willing to change browsers… gasp
Google had a revelation.
JD Vance has it in his shopping cart.