Re: Back?
"eg:-
sudo apt-get install bsdgames
adventure
works on my raspberry pi !"
Works on Windows 10 with Ubuntu installed from the Windows Store too!
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"For many years I looked for a fully featured Linux Subsystem for Windows. But on reflection even that isn't need these days."
The Microsoft integration solution was handy for various things - especially NFS file shares - and often outperformed Linux as an NFS server! Access permission translations were fiddly to get right though.
Many people don't realise that the NFS client AND NFS server parts of SUA / SFU still exist - even in Server 2016:
See https://protechgurus.com/install-configure-nfs-windows-server-2016
The NFS client only is also part of Windows 10.
"still won't let you read Linux files from Windows"
This is meant to run Linux under Windows on top of an NTFS or ReFS filesystem - Why would you then need another Linux install on the local system ? If it's not local you just use a network share... So an EXT4 driver is not really something I would expect Microsoft to provide. If it was a multi-access file system that made sense for the cloud then maybe, but it isn't.
If you really need to access Linux local EXT file systems then there are several third party driver solutions for Windows.
"Makes no sense to me why we can communicate with world+dog, however our clients who also use Office 365 are a no-no."
This is because Skype for Business federation requires knowledge of the other company's external Skype Edge server address - which might not be published to public DNS, and also that many companies want to control such external access.
Your company could chose to enable Open Enhanced Federation in Skype for Business which will accept federated connections to any company that publishes the correct DNS records.
"Hyper-V (in all its flavours) doesn't see many vSphere converts here: The licensing model is not so different from vSphere as to be convincing"
I guess you are not aware that Hyper-V Server is completely free with all features enabled? See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016
You only pay for VM OS licensing where required and management tools - and you don't need to get either of those from Microsoft.
"and asking an Admin to run Windows 10 as a hard dependency to administer his VMs "
Not needed - you can use Powershell, or third party tools to manage Hyper-V. VMM is not a requirement. And if you do want to use VMM then you can also run the console from a server running Windows 2012 or later so no need to upgrade your client PCs.
"a tumbleweed rolls through the empty villiage"
Are you confusing Vsphere with Google Cloud?!
The exodus might well be underway, but for now at least afaik VMWare is still the market leader in on premise hypervisors. Yes it's ridiculously expensive with loads of security holes, but it does still have a few technical and feature advantages.
If I was greenfield then yes Hyper-V all day long, but if I had an investment in VMWare why would I move?
"the higher they profit the more they are screwing us."
Or the more attractive a service they are providing to drive that business in a very competitive market?
There is plenty of choice in cloud, but only two really big horses to put your money on....
I prefer Azure both technically and because of the lack of lock-in compared to AWS. For instance if you write something for Dynamo DB, how are you ever going to run it anywhere else? If you write for SQL server you can still choose to run it on premise or in most other clouds...
" with restrictions on the number of VHDs (Azure's data format) per underlying VM."
That's to force you to size your desired storage and IO performance correctly versus the target VM type. Usually you can attach double the number of CPU cores # disks.
As the largest VM can handle over 260TB per VM across 65 disks delivering ~ 500K IOPS I really don't think it's a limiting factor for most use cases...
"What would you run on a container in Azure that couldn't be provided by one of their existing services?"
Something where you didn't want to have to care about creating the underlying VMs and orchestration layer? Just load it and go.... Or something where the per second billing makes more sense?
"Yeah, I'm cool about having a back door in my router so the manufacturer (they keep good secrets, no?) can overwrite the firmware any time they please."
You do generally have a choice to enable updates for non ISP routers. And after all - you are already trusting their software by using the router!
I would suggest that the sensible thing in most home setups is likely to enable auto updates on everything....
" the only remaining problem is those systems that cannot be patched because the vendor is a fucking sociopath."
Or because the owner is lazy / ignorant of the issue.
Some interesting server side vulnerability stats here: https://www.edgescan.com/assets/docs/reports/2016-edgescan-stats-report.pdf
"I may be wrong, but I only recall one Safari vulnerability that allowed a jailbreak / installing malicious code simple by clicking a browser link "
You are wrong. A number of relatively recent jailbreaks - notably by Taig - have used such exploits.
And the list of similar historical holes in Safari is pretty long....
systemd
with faint praise
"Was it actually operated by Russian army personel? Who knows, maybe it was Ukrainian separatists/rebels/terrorists*"
Extensive training and experienced crew members are required to operate such a BUK system. It's not something you can just pass to the locals and have them press a button...
"A revolt in China happens only on the back of a foreign intervention, war or something else like that (Boxer uprising, Mao, etc). When China is self-governed it does not revolt regardless of how much the peasants are oppressed".
Erm, no. See the very long list here - many of which were against the government of the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rebellions_in_China