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A strong worded letter of condemnation.
And I don’t have a solution to what the best actions in this war are.
Here's the answer: For NATO to establish immediate and total superiority in Ukrainian air space and not wait until Ukrainians are trained, establish a DMZ on Russian and Belarusian territory around Ukraine.
I think that neither side should be ‘allowed’ to attack another country
And neither is. Russia broke several international laws, including the Budapest Memorandum which it signed on its own free will. Ukraine is not attacking, it's defending. Ukraine did not target anything that isn't directly connected to Russia's war effort. Military installations, military equipment factories, supply hubs, enlistment offices, and such are legitimate targets to defend itself. It's like kicking the knife out of the hands of a robber.
And I would prefer a more de-escalating attitude from the green party member Baerbock.
Which kind of deescalation? The Georgia 2008 kind? The Crimea 2014 kind? The Hitler Appeasement kind?
Putin is not my hero.
"Attacking russians (troops and inadvertently civilians) on russian soil… Why is that still considered defense?" You literally asked why attacking Russian troops is considered defense.
Lenovo makes great computers.
Used to. No longer.
No big software project can ever be fully free of bugs. Apparently it's not all jank all the time.
The plus side of this is that there's not the Android situation where you just won't get OS updates at some point. The downside is that the 1GHz Intel CPU is trash.
And this is why I choose Debian…
You mean the distribution where Canonical has in the past outright bought votes to align Debian closer to Ubuntu? If you think I'm making shit up, look up the fiasco that led to the insanely protracted (roughly a year) very public debate about making Upstart the default init system. Here's a tldr from a German IT website:
Besides SysV Init, which is currently used by Debian, there is Systemd, which is mainly developed by Red Hat, Canonical's own Upstart, and OpenRC, which is developed by Gentoo. Only Systemd and Upstart are believed to have a chance. It is unlikely that SysV Init will remain, OpenRC cannot keep up with Upstart or Systemd in terms of technology and innovation. More and more Linux distributions are turning to Systemd, while Upstart is currently used exclusively by Canonical, after Red Hat used it for RHEL 6 and Fedora 9, but is relying on Systemd for RHEL 7.
The two committee members who have already made their opinions known are former Canonical employee Ian Jackson and Russ Allbery. While Jackson favors Upstart, Allbery is clearly in favor of Systemd. Two other members, Colin Watson and Steve Langasek, both employed by Canonical, will probably only support Upstart. The other members are Don Armstrong, Andreas Barth and Keith Packard, newly elected to the committee, as well as chairman Bdale Garbee.
Original: https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20622/debatte-um-das-init-system-bei-debian-8-h%C3%A4lt-an.html Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version).
It's now less public but Canonical still has its tentacles in Debian with Snap and such.
SUSE is independent again
MicroFocus selling SUSE to an investment firm is hardly making SUSE independent.
Now that it’s back to being independent German they are putting new focus on Linux desktop.
Great. Mind linking to announcements about hiring desktop developers? Browsing through jobs.suse.com I found two job ads about container-related software engineers in Taiwan. That's neither desktop nor German.
Don’t use Fedora or it’s ilk for starters.
Fedora doesn't make Red Hat any money anyway. That's like saying to not use Debian because that could help Canonical's Snap vehicle Ubuntu. For now Fedora is mostly unaffected by Red Hat's weird moves. As a long time openSUSE user myself, I'm somewhat experienced in using a community distribution sponsored by a company that got worse and worse over the years and I definitively would not want to buy SUSE Linux Enterprise ever. Weirdly enough, openSUSE even got better as a consequence of some of SUSE's moves. Fewer employed upstream contributors led to the very automated QA and release processes of Tumbleweed, the rolling release distribution. If you have read about problems within openSUSE because of SUSE, it's about Leap, the LTS variant practically nobody uses because TW is just so stable and good. If Red Hat or SUSE ever go totally mad and torpedoed Fedora / openSUSE, both projects have enough safeguards in place to move the projects into independence with little interruption.
And why would Microsoft fix those when their paying customers even work for free?