alt Hacker NewsWe live in the shattered remains, badly reconstructed, of what a true operating system could be - we have some of the pieces (zfs, k8s, virtualization, scaling, failover, nixos, qubes) but imagine it all put together, orchestrated, carefully documented and tested by immense number of engineers. Ah, what could have been.
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actionfromafar • today at 11:23 AM
The older I get, the more compelling the IBM universe seems.
jiggawatts • today at 11:29 AM
This is what it feels like to look in at Linux from the outside as a Windows admin used to corporate-enforced consistency.
Sure, Microsoft has stumbled a bit recently, but around the 2010s it was a glorious era of PowerShell and Windows Server releases that were still improving.
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The problem is license costs. IBM makes a great system but almost all their customers have been working hard to replace it, not because of issues with the quality but the high license costs.