Ex #Ilva, è Qatar Steel il gruppo 'segreto'? - Corriere di Taranto
https://www.corriereditaranto.it/2025/11/14/ex-ilva-e-qatar-steel-il-gruppo-segreto/

@stefano I wonder what does it mean that Linux becomes a Windows...

Lo sappiamo: le previsioni macroeconomiche sono arte divinatoria. In ogni caso, quella per il 2026 della Commissione europea vede l'Italia nella solita posizione: in coda. Previsione di crescita 2026 per la Ue: +1,4%, in accelerazione. Per l'Italia, col suo potente PNRR, +0,8%.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-economy-grows-more-than-expected-in-2025-despite-trumps-tariffs/

@omar Good morning to you! Here it's been raining, but now the clouds are vanishing and...sun!
I hope to be able to have a walk in the afternoon.
Have a great week!

@christopher Linux and MacOS - for Linux, he says "it's moving to become a new Windows" and MacOS, according to him, is moving to a "mobile first OS".
Not that I totally agree, but it's his opinion and I respect it.

@stefano what did you mean when you wrote that he was disillusioned with other operating systems? Did he mean Linux and what choices did he mean?

I've just used them, so time to repost this:

Enhancing FreeBSD Stability with ZFS Pool Checkpoints

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/01/enhancing-freebsd-stability-with-zfs-pool-checkpoints/

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix