So the narrative is that Rust somehow, through being released only through one distro, is going to use that influence to force incompatible changes into other codebases.

Systemd says what?

passtime

pastime. Spell-check was right.

As someone who worked OS security after working build/release on Unix and Linux, don’t use flatpaks. The modicum of comfort you gain in brainless installs you lose far more in validation of package contents.

And brainless installs on Linux (yum install) is about the same via synaptic/etc. You’re not missing much.

Is that why their flat pack repo was so slow and failed.

Flatpacks are toxic, so … that’s a win?

It’s an option. Every other option is better, but it’s a brochure entry; and an option.

This might be a really great case for Rocky Linux though, as it also gets 10 years support.

That happens to be my plan. I just started rolling out a few but I will have to bulldoze some servers because CloudStack doesn’t work in it yet. That means it’s upgrade-disco for my 9s in 5 years.

Since 2002 I’ve been doing yum-cron for updates, but just at the side gig with up to 50 boxes. It used to be absolutely rock solid before systemd wrecked it, but it’s still pretty reliable.

Xargs, bc, paste, sed, awk.

To install gitlab:

1. Yum install omnibus-gitlab

Done.

fallback

That’s the noun. For the verb, it’s “fall back”, with a space.

Yours will copy a record in your grub config, for every kernel install, because that’s the easiest way to get your ancillary settings. If it’s happening truly every time, then I’ll bet that’s borked somehow.

I ran into this because grub config now needs an additional magical parameter no one mentions, because it manages new bits to create the parts it needs with your old setup to solve no real problem. It could also be keeping a bad root statement and perennially dropping it into every new boot config. Yay! I don’t remember what it was and I’m not at work, but I’ll try to check later and see if I can offer some help.

So we need to remind them again what ‘minimal’ means? Getting to be every decade now.

Sorry, the issue is size? Like, “we can’t fit into these clothes so we’re gonna go Jabba the Hut”, all naked and corpulent?

Docker-dependent?

You can create an LXC container and have it booted to a shell in under a minute

Rhel5 on a VM booted in under a minute easily. Rhel6 on a VM booted in around a minute. Rhel7 on a VM booted in almost a minute, and the trend accelerated from there. Wow, is RhelX a piece for its frail-boat booting.

ime these helper scripts are legit.

Let’s consider a moment the risk you’re subjecting people to, just with a recommendation based on the value of the things you secure without considering what they need to secure.

Curl-bash pipes are a security mess.

Security mess? Red flag. Avoid.

This thing looks great but it has layers of supply-chain sploit risk. Make sure you’re really secure before trying it – and if you’re (otherwise) iso27002 compliant, give it a pass.

Systemd is the Kanye West of vibe-coding.

1. Take a non-stop Linux box where even the kernel can be patched while it’s hot
2. Glance at d-bus sideways
3. Now you must reboot.

I don’t know why but I just found it incomprehensible.

#alwaysHasBeen, but for us graybeards the confusion has been “this is a solution with no problem” and “it’s eaten WHAT now?”