Canonical oracles LXD kinda. Who’s surprised?

  • einsteinx2@programming.dev
    7·
    1 year ago

    Project lead (or maybe one of them I’m not sure) just left too: https://stgraber.org/2023/07/10/time-to-move-on/

    As I’ve told colleagues and upper management, Canonical isn’t the company I excitedly joined back in 2011 and it’s not a company that I would want to join today, therefore it shouldn’t be a company that I keep working for either.

    Ouch lol

    • gopher@programming.dev
      3·
      1 year ago

      LXD is really a great project (when run without snap…), in large part due to Stéphane. This is a real shame.

  • nous@programming.dev
    5·
    1 year ago

    Canonical, the creator and main contributor of the LXD project has decided that after over 8 years as part of the Linux Containers community, the project would now be better served directly under Canonical’s own set of projects.

    Or does Canonical think Canonical is better served if LXD is directly under its control 🤔

    • einsteinx2@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was an Ubuntu user for many years, mostly out of inertia. I used it on all my servers and used Ubuntu or Mint for desktop usage. Once they started pushing Snap hard, I finally switched to Debian on all my servers and it’s been great. For my PC at home where I dual boot Windows 11 and Linux, I switched from Mint to Manjaro as I didn’t want to use anything based on Ubuntu anymore and I wanted something with all the latest packages (and hardcore reliability/stability is less of a concern) so Debian was out, but Arch seemed like a pain to get set up. I have a feeling I’ll end up moving from Manjaro to Arch eventually just like I did from Ubuntu to Debian, but for now it’s working for my needs.