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by curt15 3y ago
How else would people do OOP in C? Use GObject and its macros and boilerplate?
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by curt15 3y ago
>I’m not really sure who denies that Flatpak is a distribution, but I’m certainly not one of them. If anything, this seems to be a really good thing to me, because we’re bundling a distribution and deploying it to users’ systems One diff
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by curt15 3y ago
Are there any distros that offer similar integrity checks? I understand Chromebooks provide similar assurances using dm-verity but what about more general-purpose distros?
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by curt15 3y ago
>LXD is also unprivileged by default The last time I tried it (a few years ago) you needed to either run `lxc` as root or be a member of the `lxd` group which is equivalent to having root privileges. At that time the ability to launch an
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by curt15 3y ago
It looks like he's only snapshotting the root file system. One needs a system to back up the kernels and initrds in /boot as well. Even better -- an easy method to switch between (kernel, rootfs) pairs like what `rpm-ostree` provi
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by curt15 3y ago
>If ARC is so good, it should be the general Linux page cache algorithm Not possible until IBM's patent expires
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by curt15 3y ago
It looks like Fedora's adoption of btrfs unearthed another data corruption bug recently: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169947
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by curt15 3y ago
For some reason VM and DB workloads are btrfs's Achilles heel but ZFS seems to handle them pretty well (provided that a suitable recordsize is set). How do they perform on bcachefs?
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by curt15 3y ago
What about disabling IMAP access and forcing users to use the Gmail webapp?
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by curt15 3y ago
How do Googlers access Google Drive from their Linux workstations? Do they have an internal GDrive client?
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by curt15 3y ago
Since Rust doesn't yet support shared libraries, would each binary end up statically linking its own copy of glibc?
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by curt15 4y ago
This is a typical code snippet: final class Gtk.Label : Gtk.Widget implements Gtk.Accessible, Gtk.Buildable, Gtk.ConstraintTarget { /* No available fields */ } What language is that in?
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by curt15 4y ago
Microsoft or Apple don't invest any effort in making their toolkits look native or even work on other platforms. Would GTK benefit from directing 100 percent of its already limited developer resources and money on Linux?
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by curt15 4y ago
My rule of thumb is that for any application that relies on an internet connection for most of its functionality, I'd rather just use a real web browser.
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by curt15 4y ago
> Same thing for ZFS with datasets that disabled CoW for things like that. Does ZFS let you disable CoW?
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by curt15 4y ago
>How stable is Btrfs these days? Remember reading years ago that it was bad about spontaneously corrupting itself for no apparent reason. On one hand, Fedora and SUSE default to Btrfs. On the other hand, data corruption bugs are still be
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by curt15 4y ago
> Today, most academics chase money, grants, trends, citations and status. Grants, trends, citations, and status...but money really? I come from mathematics and the notion of getting rich in academia is laughable. Maybe that's why s
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by curt15 4y ago
>200 NGADs Are they making the same mistake as they did with the F-22 by acquiring a precious "silver-bullet" fleet? How do they account for downtime due to maintenance or any sort of damage?
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by curt15 4y ago
How often do distribution maintainers actually audit the package source code?
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by curt15 4y ago
It's like they were inspired by Microsoft's worst practices.
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by curt15 4y ago
I stopped distro-hopping a few years ago after landing on Silverblue a few years ago (back when it was still called Fedora Atomic Workstation). While it doesn't satisfy all use cases, I view it as a boring (in a good way) 80-percent so
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by curt15 4y ago
> I am convinced now that they are one of the best ways to ship commercial software on to Linux desktop. Commercial software would like a comprehensive and relatively stable API like what Windows famously provides. Flatpak's analog
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by curt15 4y ago
> What are the blocking points? * The infamous forced updates are a business decision, not a technical one. Canonical took a page from Microsoft by taking control away from the user only to sell it back in an "enterprise" editi
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by curt15 4y ago
Have you tried Davmail? There's even a container image for it which worked pretty well for me a few years ago.
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by curt15 4y ago
It not only is packaged by a third party but also uses a community-written patch[1] to replace Chrome's built-in sandbox with Flatpak's own sandbox. It's unclear to me whether Chromium upstream has vetted or is even aware of
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by curt15 4y ago
Maybe they were trying to take a page from Microsoft's business model; take control away from users only to sell it back as an "enterprise edition" brand store.
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by curt15 4y ago
I particularly enjoy Ahlfors' writing in his complex analysis book.
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by curt15 4y ago
How about product life? CentOS used to be supported for ten years, just like RHEL. Each stream version only lasts five.
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by curt15 4y ago
"There's a lot of "don't blame Framework, blame Intel" sentiment in that thread, and while it's absolutely true that it's a flaw in Intel's driver for Intel's hardware, that doesn't matter a
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by curt15 4y ago
Flatpak updates work pretty much the same way. The new version is installed into a parallel directory and takes effect the next time the application is restarted.

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