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by kasabali 10y ago
For vanilla Debian you can use "debdelta". It is not integrated to apt-get and it misses a lot of packages but still helps a lot compared to downloading full packages. Ubuntu would need a separate delta server for it to be usable
932.
by kasabali 10y ago
"apt-build" package is similar to what you've described. Package description talks about compiler optimizations but don't let this mislead you.
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by kasabali 10y ago
> Ubuntu's solution for beautiful fonts uses non-free software I believe Nope they don't.
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by kasabali 10y ago
Did you try installing from the server ISO?
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by kasabali 10y ago
You must have missed the news, Ubuntu has already standardized on an init 3 years ago.
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by kasabali 10y ago
https://github.com/dtrace4linux/linux/ I have no idea how well it works, though
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by kasabali 10y ago
I know you acknowledged that using it on a different distro would be more advisable, I just wanted to vent about more broad issue of their packaging policy. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
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by kasabali 10y ago
> use Qt It has only been few years since a bug in file copy animation in systray that caused 100% cpu utilization in KDE Plasma 4 has been fixed. It wasnt the first bug in this regard nor it was the last one (IIRC. I saw a similar one i
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by kasabali 10y ago
> ZFS with DKMS is a disaster It is more like Arch Linux is a disaster. Upgrading the kernel package replaces the current one! Come on, any distribution worth it's salt just installs new versions alongside and you can select any of
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by kasabali 10y ago
RAID 5/6 in btrfs doesn't have data integrity features so you're back to square 1 on this regard.
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by kasabali 10y ago
> ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all. No it is not. X.org is a fork of XFree86. Pulseaudio is a sound daemon built on top of ALSA.
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by kasabali 10y ago
you're right. on a personal note though I think javascript is the problem and I wish every web app have their basic html equivalent.
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by kasabali 10y ago
https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
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by kasabali 10y ago
You can always use the basic HTML view [0] and rock it like it's 2003! [0]: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
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by kasabali 10y ago
That's great, thanks! I'm keeping an eye on other functions, too.
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by kasabali 10y ago
> I've recently been porting all of our shell scripts to have color text output and Unicode status indicators I kinda have a similar intent of revamping user UI and user interaction of my personal scripts so I would appreciate some
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by kasabali 10y ago
Yes, I think so.
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by kasabali 10y ago
You're portraying it like somebody directly calls or implies another one shill, but that is almost always not what happens in HN comments. The comments I generally see in HN complaining about shilling are about either products or compa
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by kasabali 10y ago
I ran wallabag with nginx, fastcgi and sqlite on servers shittier than cheapest DO instances and haven't had any problems. Sure it may be slightly heavier than scp'ing and running a single go binary but compared to the likes of r
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by kasabali 10y ago
One doesn't simply use the word "shill" on HN or they consider themselves lucky they're not downvoted to hell, flagged or banned on the first sight. You're free to tell whatever comes to your mind on HN except when
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by kasabali 10y ago
> Companies that have audit requirements for these things are most likely going to need purpose-built tools for this; depending on AV crapware is a terrible idea. Good luck for them. FTA: > They also find that the default settings on
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by kasabali 10y ago
What do you mean by standard feature? HWE kernels were already introduced after each Ubuntu release.
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Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows(techrepublic.com)
6 points by kasabali 10y ago|0 comments
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by kasabali 10y ago
> Drepper takes a lot of flak for this, but glibc is not even remotely the only library at fault for this. The reason Drepper takes a lot of flak for this is not because glibc constantly breaks ABI compatibility but because he set tone o
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by kasabali 10y ago
Office 2010 works fine in Wine (and so does 2013 in latest wine release I heard). Just give it a try, I'm sure it is better than 2 reboots.
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by kasabali 10y ago
People over #debian or your sysadmin friends are entitled to their own opinions and not representative of Debian users other than themselves, and for every random recommendation for not using stable you can find another random one about dan
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by kasabali 10y ago
that's like ... your opinion. the way you try tu make it look as if it's a widely accepted best practice among Debian users is not cool. Debian stable is a perfectly viable distribution for desktop use.
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SE Linux in Debian/Stretch(etbe.coker.com.au)
2 points by kasabali 10y ago|0 comments
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by kasabali 10y ago
> We spent much more time than we expected on compatibility We similarly had to spend more time on memory usage due to it being a bigger concern than expected What did they expect anyway for starting from scratch instead of improving on
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by kasabali 10y ago
RHEL has had a similar behavioral change during lifetime of a release so this particular case is not actually a good example for recommending RHEL over Ubuntu for stability. https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/04&#x

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