Yeah, it’s a distro of kubernetes.

Most apps run best as a container, but for appliances and legacy apps they have Openshift virtualization which runs VMs in the cluster by running KVM inside of docker.

The open source tech there is called Kubevirt. All VMs are 1st class citizens in the kubernetes API, so it is actually easier to run than VMware/Proxmox if you already have a Kubernetes cluster and you’re not doing complex stuff with qcow images or VM migrations.

I use both containers and VMs a lot with Kubernetes at work.

Everybody is moving to Openshift or public cloud

Isn’t cloning font legal though? As compared to copying floppies which is punishable by death?

steam hardware survey shows 17% AMD and 8% Intel

The assumption was that nobody used win8 lol

But again I think people who grew up with 10/11 are more likely to use the windows store than you think. They used an iPad before they got a chromebook before they got a windows computer. My little cousins don’t play minecraft Java, they play minecraft bedrock. I don’t think they know what VLC is.

Ok fair, last time I used windows you had to install gpu drivers manually. I think you still are recommended to do so, since the windows ones are really old.

But yeah manual driver installation/specialized distros for Nvidia is a problem that’s in the process of getting fixed with NVK, Nova, and the official drivers. Intel and AMD are there already.

I would rather have one extra manual step like that than dealing with/paying for Windows 11

Yeah I think in the future, we’ll figure out how to make NixOS configuration modular enough to be viable for laymen, but Linux Mint works well enough for Windows refugees.

Linux mint has an app store like Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

I think it supports flathub, which has every app you could need, but I haven’t checked since I run a very customized NixOS.

People don’t really download .exes anymore, it’s just people who are used to windows 7 and earlier who still do that.

Pre-installed Nvidia drivers will likely be fixed in the next two years, but:

1. You’ll have zero driver issues if you use an Nvidia compatible distro like PopOS or Nobara

B. The 25% of gamers not using Nvidia GPUs do not have driver issues on Linux

III. Windows has tons of driver issues, so I’m not sure why Linux Nvidia drivers are a significant detail here. We don’t expect little Jimmy to know to install drivers, and know what to do when windows update fucks your drivers randomly. Linux actually soves those issues for you.

That’s a weird way to spell Linux Mint

In terms of industrial applications, the abstract states

We have realized all-optical wavelength conversion for a more than 200-nm-wide wavelength span at 100 Gbit s−1 without amplifying the signal and idler waves. As the 32-GBd 16-QAM is the dominant modulation format of current optical-fibre communication systems connecting the continents on Earth, the Si3N4-chip high-efficiency wavelength conversion demonstrated has a bright future in the all-optical reconfiguration of global WDM optical networks by unlocking transmission beyond the C and L bands of optical fibres and increasing the capacity of optical neuromorphic computing for artificial intelligence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08824-3

From the abstract: “we obtained a continuous-wave gain bandwidth of 330 nm in the near-infrared regime. […] Furthermore, we realized wide all-optical wavelength conversion of single-wavelength signals beyond 100 Gbit s−1 without amplifying the signal and idler wave.”

Here is the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08824-3

I think figure 4 from the PDF shows it the best. Their amplifier covers 1400 nm to 1700 nm infrared lasers.

SFP is the modern standard for pluggable laser modules. RJ45 sfp modules exist, but only for 1G and 10G. There’s also DAC cables for sfp, but those are limited to 2-3m, and the point was to focus on the benefits of fiber. Maybe the economies of scale necessitate some modern silicon photonics like a fiber on package option, but then you have repairability issues.

The minimum bend radius is mostly because of complete internal reflection, fiber is very flexible, and it’s not really possible to break an armored fiber cable by hand. You do have to worry about dust on the ends, though.

Toslink is cool, but it’s a very low bandwidth standard, less than 1gbit. You need proper glass fiber and lasers for high bandwidth.

yeah, I guess tvs and receivers would come with active optical cables to make it simpler, but the main thing is that optical is much cheaper and faster than copper once you get the economies of scale down on the transceivers. 1 terabit over 100km, down a cable thinner than a USB cable, is no problem with the right lasers. Meanwhile, I have interference and patent issues at 0.02tbps on hdmi cables less than a meter long.

Plenty of cheap optical HDMI cables out there, but they have compatibility issues. It would be so much easier with standard mmf mpo or SMF lc cables.

apalrd did review a unique product recently that embeds a mmf transceiver into the existing HDMI for factor, though.

https://youtu.be/1aIK01S5qa4

Imagine putting out a new high bandwidth cable standard in 2025 based on copper.

The sooner display and networking move to SFP, the better.

Displayport and hdmi are either twisted pair or coaxial I think. Low frequency RF from 50hz AC shouldn’t interfere with them, but high frequency changes in current on a power wire will.

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Yeah but 15 GB/s is 120 gbit. Your storage nodes are going to need more than 2x800gbit if you want to take advantage of the bandwidth once you start putting more than 14 drives in. Also, those 14 drives probably won’t have more than 30M iops. Your typical 2U storage node is going to have something like 24 drives, so you’ll probably be bottlenecked by bandwidth or iops no matter if you put in 15GB/s drives or 7GB/s drives.

Maybe it makes sense these days, I haven’t seen any big storage servers myself, I’m usually working with cloud or lab environments.

nah datacenters care more about capacity or iops, throughput is meaningless, since you’ll always be bottlenecked by network

Zed is great! Not as many features as IntelliJ, but insanely fast, and new features are being added all the time.