I guess you can’t really convince the ones on the other side of the political spectrum. You only have a real chance to convince the “in the middle” people. But when doing so, it’s better not to give free munition to the opposing party to be more convincing than you.
Also I am kinda hoping that it (not using hyperbolic labels and overall being “nice”) helps create a place where people can be nice to each other even when they don’t agree on politics.
Some politicians or activists unfortunately use hyperbole too frequently and sometimes even maliciously. It gets them attention but at the cost of deepening the trenches in the political discourse. Drew thought he’s doing the right thing by calling a fascist out, but realistically this will be remembered as “The woke activists are calling us fascists for saying that nobody should be killed for their opinion.” in the right wing circles. Where the term “woke” is basically the right wing equivalent term to the left’s “fascist”.
just because you are active in some internet circle, does not mean you are active in every internet circle. I’d say the Right to Repair movement or Cloudflare are more “worldwide” than Kirk.
If it were properly modular, systemd would be built from universal components, which could be used by other init systems. But it’s the other way around. Meaning the universal components are created by taking them out of systemd. For example elogind is “extracted” from systemd to be a standalone daemon.
I am not knowledgeable enough to answer your question. But if it were an open standard, it would be more like Xorg than Wayland. There is only one X server implementation, just like there is only one systemd implementation.
Here Gnome is kinda like the websites which only work with Chromium based browsers. “Everybody is using Chrome anyways, right?” In a sense it’s also not really systemd’s or Chromium’s fault, that some devs decided to only support their platform.
I feel like Void devs will first wait it out. Perhaps Chimera Linux’ devs will come up with some workaround by then. A possible workaround could be to make Duncaen’s systemd fork official. Though I’m not sure if maintaining 2 init systems would be less work than to patch the systemd API specific stuff.
I’ll try that. Thanks!
This is unrelated but I wonder if I could get better Windows VM performance by disabling swap for the VM. I use an old laptop with slow drive. I wonder if aggressive swapping could be the reason why my Windows machine feels frozen all the time.
The reason Ubuntu switched was Rust’s “safety”. Which is sort of a dumb reason because Coreutils have had very few CVEs in the past. A less dumb reason is performance. Uutils are faster than Coreutils, this was an edge-case.
MIT license is the schizo reason. Making a closed source version of Unix utilities would not be beneficial for Canonical in any way, but that does not stop the schizos from schizoing.
Not only that but if you edit the MIT licensed files (Read: They have the MIT notice, which you have to preserve, in them.), they will still be MIT licensed. Only new files and the entire project will become GPL.
I am not a lawer.
Well the entire point of the project is that they used algorithms/features of Rust that make it easier to write fast code. This article basically reports on a “bug”. Uutils are in many ways already faster than Coreutils.
Correctness is really more of a byproduct of using Rust. Coreutils have had only a few CVEs in their lifetime so it would be sort of redundant to rewrite them in Rust for “correctness”.
The author simply listened to the word of 0-Based Versioning. It says more about your maturity than of the projects. Much to learn you still have.
This does not seem very different from runit, so you probably do things similarly. Dependencies are done by checking if the dependency is running inside the script. Presumably you deal with daemons by execing the daemon, so that the daemon becomes the script, not a separate process.
This whole thing is basically runit + some extra features. So dependencies work the same as runit. You just check if the dependency is running. If not, you exit. Then the init will keep restarting the service until it works. (Just guessing based on the README)
Dracut is an initramfs generator, not an init system. They do completely different things. You were still using systemd as an init system.
The problem with Linux is that most distributions suck for beginners. People recommend Debian/Ubuntu because they’re stable but that just means they don’t get updated, not that they won’t break. The obvious solution is to use Arch, which has the latest version of software and therefore does not break on new hardware. But that sucks too because Arch’s goal is not that your setup works either, it’s that you have the latest versions of software installed no matter the cost. OK, so I guess Fedora will be good because it’s somewhere in the middle. Fedora is better but their non-free codec stuff is not great for noobs either.
I think the best recommendation is Pop! OS because it has none of the above issues. You will still have outdated software but at least not outdated drivers. Just use the defaults, don’t change the desktop environment etc. If you install third party software in the .deb format, expect breakage when you eventually upgrade to a new release. Try to use flathub for that. Be aware that software on Flathub is user-submitted and may contain a virus. Check that it’s verified by a trusted source, not just some random person’s github website.
Then there is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which I guess is pretty good too but it’s hard to recommend to noobs because it’s sort of esoteric and because you cannot install .deb packages from the internet on it. Finally there are the atomic distros which have the same issues but at least they should break less likely. If you only need software from flathub and what’s available in the app store, they’re fine.
idk why I wrote this but yes most distros don’t “just work”
Thanks for the links! I think their wording on why they don’t want to open source the project is quite slimy when it just requires them to give ship users the source code tarballs alongside the binaries.
You shouldn’t need to cross compile, as they will provide the binaries for systems they support.
Well it’s unlikely a company would support every possible system in the world. The best one can do is using something like static linking/flatpak/nix. But that means not using shared libraries which can make software start slower. This would bother me for a daily-driver browser. I guess it does not bother nix users like you but I was thinking they would be potentially missing out on some Linux users. Maybe it isn’t really a significant portion that would care.
I felt ok with spending $10
I guess I would be too but in the context of their offerings, it’s kinda off-putting for me.
The browser isnt paid though.
So it’s a closed source browser that relies on donations? Or is it Open Source? I could not find much about it (eg. a git repo or something) and just assumed it would have a similar business model to the search engine.
why would it have issues with a package manager?
Depends on the package manager. It’s probably easy on Debian, but more difficult on rolling releases, mostly because of dependency hell. Binary distributed software is also harder to integrate in a build system and cross-compilation to a different architecture is not possible.
Regarding the cost of the search engine, I don’t care about all the things you get. I just want a search engine and for a reasonable price compared to the price of their “all of them at once, I suppose” bundle.
Paid search engine makes sense to me but paid browser does not. The browser’s target audience will have a better experience using a free of charge and Open Source browser than a paid one because the paid browser won’t integrate very well with package managers.
This is off topic but their search engine pricing is quite scummy. Either you pay $5 for 300 searches per month, which is too little, or you pay $10 for unlimited searches, which is too many for a mere mortal. They are trying to up-sell the $10 subscription.
Cool! I might install something like this someday.
Do you use secure boot? What device is your server? I would use my laptop for that, but not sure if that’s how it should work.