A Historic Photo: Torvalds and Gates Together
When #Linux met #Microsoft: a historic photo of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates standing side by side for the very first time.

https://linuxiac.com/a-historic-photo-torvalds-and-gates-together/

From the hell is freezing department. #azure would be not existing without Linux.

And this fuels also the joke that the relationship between #WNT and #VMS is the same as between #IBM and #HAL.

Hey #Chemnitz, #Leipzig und Umland Bubble,

die IHK Chemnitz hat eine Petition gestartet, welche den weitestgehend zweigleisigen #Bahnausbau und die durchgängige Elektrifizierung der leidgeprüften Strecke #RE6 zwischen Chemnitz und Leipzig fordert.

Das größte Problem der Bahnstrecke ist ihr größtenteils eingleisiger Ausbau. Wenn Verspätungen auftreten (durch technische Probleme an den Gleisen oder Fahrzeugen oder einer anderen Störung) können diese meist lange nicht wieder aufgeholt werden. Da die Fahrzeuge immer wieder auf sich warten müssen.

Deshalb klickt das bitte…
ist an den sächsischen Landtag gerichtet

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/ausbau-bahnstrecke-chemnitz-leipzig-jetzt-sicherstellen

What do you miss in #Proxmox or #XCPng?

My customers often told me, that when migrating from #VMware based setups, they would miss something like #DRS. As a result I published #ProxLB as a load balancer. Now, I do the same for #DPM and also some other things. What do you miss or what stops you or your business from switching to Proxmox or XCPng?

It is a rare day. Rosenkrantz has been resetting to firmware so we bought another VAX 4000-60 to try sort it out and this one is the cleanest we've ever seen.

ProxLB 1.0.7 (an opensource DRS alike solution for #Proxmox clusters) is just around the corner!

1.0.7 will be the last version before I'm going to publish the new refactored code base in a modern and object oriented way. Version 1.1.0 squashes some more bugs that were postponed on the current code base and makes the overall future handling much easier (including new features).

Website: https://proxlb.de
GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eEZWEU7s
Blog post: https://lnkd.in/e5_b6u-A
Tags: #ProxmoxVE #DRS #Loadbalancer #opensource #virtualization #gyptazy #Proxmox #ProxLB #homelab #enterprise #balancer #balancing #virtualmachines #VM #VMs #VMware #LXC #container #cluster

How many containers/pods are you running on each of your VMs?

Your VAX in a Cloud is Ready - For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever use... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/ #retrocomputing #openvms #dec #vax #vms

I want to create a VM via virt-manager with a minimal debian image on my debian testing host. I want to use it as docker host to test out hosting stuff.

I need to install stuff on this VM and i want to reach the vm via ssh and web from my host. Now firewalls and bridging and so on comes into place and then I'm lost :-(

Over the past months we have interviewed some of the people involved in the #ARDC, a series of #VMs hosted at the servus datacenter; we have also traced the history of #AMRO, Art Meets Radical Openness, and the general radical media art context in which #servus.at was born and still operates.

All this material is now collected in a fancy magazine called "Artists Running Data Centers", which we'll get fresh off the press tomorrow and present at STWST on Tuesday, December 17th at 7pm.

I've been using #virtiofs to access the host filesystem in my #guix #kvm #libvirt #VMs - it's very nice. I have it mount the directory automatically in my guix-system definition:

(file-system
(mount-point "/home/la/workspace")
(device "workspace")
(type "virtiofs")

Guix also supports the 9p filesystem and others.

#ProxLB - the #LoadBalancer for #Proxmox just got released in version 1.0.5.

ProxLB adds features like #DRS from #VMware, node evacuation etc. to Proxmox and is fully #opensource

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

You asked for it - you get it! #ProxLB now also supports evacuating a #Proxmox node by live migrating the VMs to other nodes in the cluster.

This is feature in now in main and will be part of release 1.0.4. You can find more about my ProxLB project at: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

#DEC #VMS was a fierce rival to #Unix. In 1988, David Cutler, one of VMS designers, was hired by Microsoft to lead the development of #Windows #NT. Cutler brought his VMS team with him, interviewed by BYTE in 1993

In the 1980-ties, during the cold war, US had restrictions on export of computers to the Soviet Union. They nevertheless acquired and cloned VAX/VMS. In response, #DEC engraved in the #VAX chip the following words in Russian: “VAX… when you care enough to steal the very best”
#VMS

#VMS is a famous operating system developed by #DEC together with the #VAX architecture, 1975-1977. VAX hardware and VMS software teams worked closely together to achieve tight integration. The technical leads for VMS development were Dave Cutler, Dick Hustvedt and Peter Lipman

Long shot, but does anyone have something like a style / HCI / best practices guide for mainframe terminal applications?

So things you'd see on a 3270 terminal at your travel agency or bank. IBM's ISPF or VMS TDMS, I guess.

Never been part of that particular enterprise sector – and don't actually want to – but I often wonder whether I'm missing out on some application patterns that could be used elsewhere, too.

Two fucking years later - I STILL have not got a OpenVMS enthusiast license

And I have applied three times.