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Arctic Wolf® and BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX:BB), two global leaders in security software and services, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Arctic Wolf to acquire BlackBerry’s Cylance® endpoint security assets. Cylance is the pioneer of AI-based endpoint protection trusted by thousands of organizations around the world. With this acquisition, Arctic Wolf ushers in a new era of simplicity, flexibility, and outcomes to the endpoint security market, delivering the security operations results customers have been asking for.

They had no problems taking everyone’s money. Maybe companies should limit the number of sales when deploying a product tied to services they operate and need to scale.

I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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We are announcing that on October 4, 2024, VMware Skyline will reach End-of-Life (EOL). | |

| This change is necessary as part of our vision for the future of self-help issue avoidance and diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) as part of VMware by Broadcom. | |   | | Skyline EOL |

| VMware Skyline Advisor service will be turned off for all customers. All collected data will be deleted and Skyline Advisor services will be disabled. | |   | | Recommendation |

| VMware Skyline Advisor's features are being rolled into VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation, under VCF Operations and Diagnostics - "Powered by Skyline". We recommend upgrading to VCF/VVF 5.2 or Aria Operations v8.18 to take advantage of the new diagnostics and self-help features. | |   |

| Starting with VCF 5.2 (July 2024), Critical Findings and Self-Help recommendations will be available directly in the product. |

| We are planning to bring many of the other Skyline features into VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation in future release iterations. |

|   | | Skyline Health Diagnostics (SHD) will continue to be available until further notice. |

|   | | In preparation for Skyline Advisor's end of life, Skyline customers only need to shut down their Skyline Collector(s) and revert any changes made in the deployment of VMware Skyline such as removing any firewall rules or any accounts created specifically for the purpose of operating the Skyline service. Please refer to the VMware Skyline Advisor Users Guide section on exiting Skyline. | |   |

| Thank you for your patience during this transition period. | | |

|   | | Best Regards,  | | VMware Skyline Team  | | |

See also: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/06/sustaining-digital-certificate-security.html

Windows 10 EoL is fast approaching, so I thought I’d give Linux a try on some equipment that won’t be able to upgrade to Windows 11. I wanted to see if I will be able to recommend an option to anyone that asks me what they should do with their old PC.

Many years ago I switched to Gentoo Linux to get through collage. I was very anti-MS at the time. I also currently interact with Linux systems regularly although they don’t have a DE and aren’t for general workstation use.

Ubuntu: easy install. Working desktop. Had issues with getting GPU drivers. App Store had apps that would install but not work. The App Store itself kept failing to update itself with an error that it was still running. It couldn’t clear this hurdle after a reboot so I finally killed the process and manually updated from terminal. Overall, can’t recommend this to a normal user.

Mint: easy install. Switching to nvidia drivers worked without issue. App Store had issues with installing some apps due to missing dependencies that it couldn’t install. Some popular apps would install but wouldn’t run. Shutting the laptop closed results in a prompt to shutdown, but never really shuts off. Update process asks me to pick a fast source (why can’t it do this itself?)

Both: installing apps outside of their respective stores is an adventure in terminal instead of a GUI double-click. Secure boot issues. Constant prompt for password instead of a simple PIN or other form of identity verification.

Search results for basic operations require understanding that what works for Ubuntu might not work for Mint.

While I personally could work with either, I don’t see Linux taking any market share from MS or Apple when windows 10 is retired.