2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 16: TANSTAAFL
Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin.
Plugs
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News
Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” plan to impose hard limits
GitHub’s source code was leaked on GitHub last night… sort of
Free consulting
We were asked whether someone starting out as a sysadmin should master Debian or CentOS.
Datadog
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