You will obviously have a change management system which describes all the changes you have made to your putative standard distro configs. You will also be monitoring those changes.
This tool logs all the changes it makes via the standard logging system, which can be easily captured, shipped and aggregated and then queried and reported on.
This is not a tool from Clown Cars R US, it's from a reasonably reputable source - Oracle (lol etc). Even better, you can read the code and learn or critique.
Not being funny but I'd rather this sort of thing by far than any amount of wooo handwavy wankery. Would you prefer openly described and documented or "take our word for it"?
Which is now a list you will have to check for every issue. I don't think they are complaining they don't trust the writers of the code, just that it adds confounding variables to your system
This is an expert system/advice run by real people (at a reasonably well respected firm) not an AI wankery thingie. It is literally expert advice and it is being given away and in code form which you can read.
What on earth is wrong with that?
Only if you don't know what you're doing, which, with no judgement whatsoever, might be true for OP. Reading the source, it affects some networking related flags. If the local audio craps out, it's not related. If the Bluetooth keyboard craps out, it's not related. If the hard drive crashes, it's not related.
I get that is just adding more variables to the system, but this isn't Windows, where the changes under the hood are this mystery hotfix that got applied and we have no idea what it did and the vendor notes raise more questions than it asks and your computer working feels like this house of cards that's gonna fall over if you look at it funny. If the system is acting funny, just disable this, reset them all back to default, possibly by rebooting, and see if the problem persists. If you're technical enough to install this, I don't think disabling it and rebooting is beyond your abilities.
The world is now very highly interconnected. When I was a child, I would have rubbish conversations over the blower to an aunt in Australia - that latency was well over one second - satellite links. Nowadays we have direct fibre connections.
So, does you does ?
Oracle exists for one sole purpose, which is to make Larry money. Anything they “give away for free” almost always includes a non-obvious catch which you only discover during some future audit.
In this case it appears to be gpl and thus most likely harmless. But I’d expect either the license to change once people are hooked, or some glaring lack of functionality that’s not immediately obvious, that can only be remediated by purchasing a license of some sort.
So if this tool makes a well reasoned and ostensibly sensible tweak which happens to expose some flaw in your system and takes it down, being able to say "those experts Oracle made the mistake, not me" might get you out of the hot seat. But it's better to never be in the hot seat.
Anything that Oracle makes available for community contributions should be assumed will be dramatically restricted via license when Oracle figures out how to monetize it.
I think most times when a project from a big company goes closed, the features added afterwards usually only benefit other big companies anyways.
Right now I prefer to be happy they ever bothered at all (to make open source things), rather than prematurely discount it entirely.
Maybe you weren't implying that it should be discounted entirely, but I bet a lot of people were thinking that.