The contributor’s frustration with Linus started with Linus ignoring multiple explicit requests for his intervention. When the contributor was so frustrated at the lack of response from Linus that he had the audacity to talk about it off list (linking here because the original toot has been deleted), it was at that point that Linus finally chimed in to tell the contributor “Maybe the problem is you,” implying that Hellwig’s obstructionism was not a problem in his eyes and that the only issue was the contributor drawing public attention to it.

Sounds like a good time for a black block

My solution: Both

Opnsense should support HA. If you’re using a vlan-capable switch, you can plug your ISP device into the switch and connext it to just these two machines.

By having a physical device, you get the stability advantages of a dedicated device. You can also test upgrades on the virtual router and roll back to the physical if needed. When something eventually goes wrong with the physical device (all hardware fails eventually), you fail over to the proxmox instance until you replace it and don’t have to rebuild the config from scratch.

To be even more explicit on the last point, that means regularly updating OpenWRT and all your containers, not just the server’s base OS

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That is not accurate.

• RedHat is the standard for high-budget American corps.
• Rocky and similar for low-budget American orgs
• Ubuntu Server has a large following with developers who think they don’t need sysadmins.
• Debian Stable is more popular with European orgs that aren’t incentivized by US government contracts to go with Redhat. It is much more stable than Ubuntu, has been more reliable in its support promises than Redhat, and doesn’t suffer from the NIH syndrome that infects both.
• Ubuntu is popular with home users
• Debian Testing is good for workstations and personal machines that need to be a bit more current
• Debian Unstable for people who like Debian but want to live on the bleeding edge

Notify the maintainer of the open source tool - they’re in the best position to push for compliance. They have the power to revoke the company’s license.

And not subject to compliance based retention standards