Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday Date: 1 Aug 2024 01:45:34 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net LH/e3DRtcny+5XiC+eOgXQPYlCIiGoC0IrYOR6fkD/SH3ko/z2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nTWPcODXYwLlHA+fPvxrq+j+lew= sha256:cQ3Wehmtk9ID3x72EHWkeKEt9CZFp6yBVRnY9juDlGU= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:57536 On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:45 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote: > For example, my workplace. Most of our Linux and macOS machines are not > people's personal systems, but dedicated build/test machines with fairly > full-time jobs. I am not a skilled sysadmin, but being able to use sudo > for simple tasks gets them done a lot faster than opening a helpdesk > ticket. At one time (25 years ago) the Linux boxes were our personal machines and the build/test machines were RS6000/AIX boxes that we shared. The same code base built on both although some of the data had to be converted between big and little endian. IBM priced themselves out of competition and our clients went to Windows. We use the MKS NutCracker environment on Windows so for the most part the code builds on Linux or Windows. The Linux boxes are still our personal machines, with shared Windows systems for build/testing. The shared AIX resources sometimes had problems like a newbie programmer deleting what amounts to /usr/bin to free up disk space. Screw-ups on that level meant you bought the donuts. We had a homegrown thing called 'gosu' which was essentially sudo without the training wheels.