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by curt15 3y ago
BillG probably did to a large extent: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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by curt15 3y ago
Is gLinux[1] still a thing? https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
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Doesn't btrfs suffer crippling performance penalties for DBs unless you disable its marquee features of copy-on-write and checksumming?
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How does ostree compare with the A/B partition scheme used by Bottlerocket for updates?
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What about Docker's design is incompatible with running systemd? Because that seems to be mainly what LXD containers offer over typical docker containers.
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by curt15 3y ago
>1. With Fedora Silverblue 39 the most straightforward way is to add a Dockerfile layer just which makes your changes directly to the base image. Does that put the onus on you to rebuild container image in order to receive system updates
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> not having write access to /usr or /bin or other folders drove me crazy about once every two weeks. How do you keep track of your custom modifications to /usr or /bin without using the package manager? Do you record
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by curt15 3y ago
I see that UBlue uses Github actions to rebuild the images regularly to roll in package updates. Who foots the bill? Are the images also served from Github? Does Github charge for egress? What happens when a lot of users want to download th
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by curt15 3y ago
ZFS on Linux is commonly used in HPC these days. E.g. https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/openzfs
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>I think you misunderstood users, it's not just ignorance. I want apps to go back in the direction of real(not cordova) apps, not some low effort web thing. Basically zero web apps match the experience of a well crafted actual app.
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>On the other hand, my children use apps since they are two years old, and at the age of seven they still rarely if ever used browser. Most of the people writing on HN were first exposed to the internet through web browsers. On the other
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by curt15 3y ago
Whether it is easier to package for snap is debatable. Building docker images is a much more widespread and well established workflow.
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My distro-hopping ended at Fedora Silverblue.
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>Yes, exactly. Use a stable distro, don't touch things, and they won't change. It will continue to run exactly the same for years and years. This is in contrast to OSX and Windows. Windows is completely unrecognizable to me sin
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Was he able to back up and restore his boot/ESP partition as well using ZFS, or did those need to be reprovisioned manually?
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What about transactional updates? Applications might have undefined behavior if their libraries or other assets are changed under their feet.
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by curt15 3y ago
>And yet it still had very useful features like rollback and history. yum/dnf rollback is unreliable even today because the previously installed versions of packages might no longer be present in the repos.
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>In the modern world, when software development speed picked up steam quite a lot, releases of new software happen much more often than distribution life cycles. It's not just a modern thing. For no other platforms are application v
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by curt15 3y ago
Debian's policy document [1] lays out various conventions and requirements in unparalleled detail. I haven't seen anything like that in other distros. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
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Since most package managers only support installing software system-wide, users need to compile whatever additional software they need in their home directory and hope that the prerequisite toolchains are already installed by their system a
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>Of these flatpak seems most likely to become the standard although I wish it would plunk an executable somewhere instead of the ridiculousness of flatpak run foo Then you'd need to ensure that filenames from different flatpaks don&
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by curt15 3y ago
"99% of our users love the increased peace of mind from a tightly controlled browser environment."
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by curt15 3y ago
>Well, obviously ChromeOS will be certified as is Android (their other popular Linux Specifically, ChromeOS running the google-signed, untampered, OS image
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by curt15 3y ago
>Using whatever Python your distribution needed is bad practice. Own your application environment, there are plenty of ways to do this, such as Nix and Docker, which make your Python environments reproducible across systems. How far down
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by curt15 3y ago
Policy is one thing, but enforcement is what really matters. Do Google Play reviewers actually reject apps that hold core functionality hostage?
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>This sounds like a good thing; the sanctions are working as intended. Whether the effect is "good" depends on if you think someone's device should serve its user or some government.
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btrfs
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>rust demands that I cross every last t before I can run it at all. which is great if you already have a crystal notion of what you are building As a Rust beginner, I find the principle that "if it compiles, it works" quite hel
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>People are using the snapshots to do backups of MySQL databases, he said, which is a test of the robustness of the feature This is exciting because db workloads are btrfs's kryptonite. The only way to avoid crippling fragmentation
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by curt15 3y ago
Isn't copy-on-write supposed to be inherently resilient to crashes[1]? Why would btrfs be more susceptible to resets than traditional filesystems? [1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/634050/in-what-w

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