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Ironically modern Linux is trying to alienate the grey beards with uneditable config files, breaking decades of convention, etc.
by syshum 5y ago
Ironically modern Linux is trying to alienate the grey beards with uneditable config files, breaking decades of convention, etc.
- pjmlp 5y agoOnly those that never used UNIX commercial clones, which have deviated from System V long time ago.
- syshum 5y agoWhat? Systemd, netplan, and many other things. I am not sure what UNIX clones have to do with this The latest version of Ubuntu you can not even set the IP with standard etc config, you have to use netplan YAML configuration systemd has replaced all kinds of things with non "grey beard" configurations, the list is pretty extensive
- pjmlp 5y agoSolaris and AIX had systemd like features eons ago. OS X configuration files (plists) can be XML based or binary, many are binary and managed via plist CLI or app.