I can remember way back around 1990 being told that waterfall was mostly a bad idea, and few shops really followed it. Rapid prototyping was agile back then. We were shown how to produce flow charts and static call diagrams in Software Engineering 201 or whatever it was called, and I felt they were doing it to show us how but also to demonstrate how much work it was, and how easy it was to get the analysis wrong.
As new fashions arose, instead of attacking waterfall as practiced (which, don't get me wrong, is still labor intensive), they criticized a straw man version, because it made the new methods look even better.
Sounds like CentOS Stream will bring the pain to users and admins. Going forward, the answer to every stability question will be "maybe you should go buy Redhat".
I had a bad feeling about the CentOS project when Redhat became involved as more than an upstream RPM source. I hope CentOS isn't turned into another Fedora.
I'm sure many of you will be happy to tell me that I'm wrong. Please do.
If you use open source software long enough, you will eventually be disappointed in a design decision. In this case, it was a big surprise when a tool I'd been using since the early 1990s suddenly changed its output with absolutely no warning. This is both an expected result from using Gentoo, and simultaneously very disappointing.
Furthermore, I was disappointed by the reaction from both the developers and other people leaping to their defense who felt that they'd been personally insulted by users suggesting that this may have been better as a non-default option. If I can set QUOTING_STYLE=literal everywhere, surely the distro maintainers who wanted this could have set QUOTING_STYLE=shell-escape?
I'd be the first to say that everyone is free to disagree with me. I have the source, I have a workaround, I adapt.
> Very neat to see it on the storage side, and something I don't think anyone could fathom back in the spinning disk days.
Seagate had a product called Kinetic that was an Ethernet-connected key-value spinning disk. We had a 1U box with a number of 4000GB drives in our lab for an evaluation.
It was interesting but we didn't find a use for it. Product is dead now as far as I know.