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by chronid 11y ago
Note for those who (maybe) don't know: skarnet is the author of S6 [1], a supervision suite similar (and yet different) to daemontools/runit. 1. http://skarnet.org/software/s6/
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by chronid 11y ago
> So central repositories are now a tool of the devil, no matter what? If anything, this seems like a great win for modularity: from the outside you can interact with it as if it was all part of one whole, while the actual implementation
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by chronid 11y ago
Sure, the question is why fix something that is not broken? Why should someone write a systemd journal format reader (but journald is just an example here) when text files work already? Why rewrite tools to support it? If you get to the po
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by chronid 11y ago
You assume the other system is a linux box with systemd installed. That may be true, or may not be true at all. :)
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by chronid 11y ago
Quoting a comment: In other words, perfectly ordinary behavior in the proprietary world. I spend 90% of my time at work fighting monsters like that (another juicy example: a proprietary and broken pseudo-clones of yum born from an
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by chronid 12y ago
And this is how we get kinetic barriers? :P
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by chronid 12y ago
To bring a counterpoint, it does not match mine (but I do not live in the USA). My salary is actually higher that the minimum (established by collective agreement) for my job. The union just negotiates the lower bound. If your company value
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by chronid 12y ago
If you are the only guy who knows all the opaque rules of an important business system you have incompetent management and they should be replaced. Single point of failure and all that. What happens when you are ill/away and a critical
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by chronid 12y ago
It's like the world is their laboratory, and they run experiments on all of us.
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by chronid 12y ago
This. Absolutely this. Also see [1]. [1] http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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by chronid 12y ago
No, what is happening is someone making the instructions on how creating a lamp public and saying "I use this lamp in a controlled environment where using it cannot hurt anyone. If you try to use it outside of a similar controlled envi
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by chronid 12y ago
VServer and Jails/Zones are not really the same thing, IIRC, and 1.0 was around 2004 too anyway, while still not offering equivalent functionality. If I remember incorrectly, I stand corrected on the timeline! I've got no problem
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by chronid 12y ago
I don't find it really that surprising. Some shared hosts run very old/outdated PHP versions (at least one I know still uses 5.2). At the same time many, many many linux servers are never updated after the first installation...
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by chronid 12y ago
They could have the need to create Linux VMs, and that was the best way to do that. It does not mean porting KVM is "exciting OS work", though. Even the actual craze around linux containers technology sometimes baffles me. Zones&#
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by chronid 12y ago
In my current workplace the joke is for the newcomers to be called "undervisors" (in contrast to shift supervisors). I found it common to get called a "minion", "drone" or "padawan" while working in I
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by chronid 12y ago
Upstart was tested enough to ship in RHEL6. It does not mean it works perfectly and has no bugs. But systemd IS NOT only an init system. So if systemd 208 (until 213) by default saves the core files in the journal and your core file is bigg
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by chronid 12y ago
So now instead of syslog we have journald AND syslog - we only doubled the risk of something going boom and taking away our ability to log. I don't think that's nice.
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by chronid 12y ago
No. This is _bullshit_, and people should really stop saying this. A lot of components (OpenSSL? GCC? LLVM?) are in that repository merely for convenience but ARE NOT developed on internally (except for patches to make them work, eventually
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by chronid 12y ago
Journald is still there. So are libqrencode and libmicrohttpd and (possibly) the hook for the coredumps (that is now reverted in systemd 214 when - after almost 2 years from the first bug opened on the matter - they discovered that hard lim
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by chronid 12y ago
The debate around systemd is not only technical, but also highly political. Systemd is a shift towards the "aggregation" of many separate projects/components of the linux core userland (udev, polkit, wayland, logging, sessio
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by chronid 12y ago
So does rc.subr under freebsd. Or openrc under gentoo. I would not be surprised if all that boilerplate present in the shell script was now in /etc/mail/make now. No Fedora system around to check this right now, though.
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by chronid 12y ago
Unfortunately HTTPS is unable to protect you in a school/office setting, or wherever you use a computer provided to you by someone else. In those cases, certificates can (and will) be forged very easily.
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by chronid 12y ago
No, what BSD's have is the analogue of what in Linux land are called "coreutils". The rest is usually code from external sources mantained inside the tree for consistency.
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by chronid 12y ago
Small correction: we are not talking about init systems. We are talking about the change from a "distributed" userspace to a "centralized" one. It's an highly political debate while also being technical. Tempers ar
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by chronid 12y ago
Leaving aside the political tone of the article... Is aging really a disease to be cured? Do we really find so hard to let go of the world (when we are dying) or of loved ones?
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by chronid 12y ago
This is the relevant tweet: https://twitter.com/Viss/status/499980463646048257
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by chronid 12y ago
Someone recently did this and posted screenshots of what was available on the public internet (including a control system for a water turbine, IIRC).
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by chronid 12y ago
It's not really a "Poettering" thing. More like a "Red Hat" thing. They control (= their employee are mantainers and developers of) most linux core userspace programs/libraries, starting from Udev and Dbus and
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by chronid 12y ago
You forget its own reimplementation of dhcpcd, IIRC.
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by chronid 12y ago
Aka: do not attempt to use this if you are sane.

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