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TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in how to interpret this, yay output?

Oh and btw, there’s an equivalent: docs.makedeb.org/using-the-mpr/introduction/

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

In what regards ? Boot faster ? Fine, but on a server it does not mean anything, a server does not reboot that often; for a desktop it not that the 5 seconds you gain are a fundamental gain.

Are you sure it doesn’t mean anything? It means to a LOT of people.

Anyways are you aware of systemd-analyze and that you can profile your boot and services even with graphical representations? Have a look at www.apertis.org/guides/boot_optimisation/ and opensource.com/…/systemd-startup-configuration

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

It used to be that everything in Linux was a file, ideally a text file

Yes? The entire Systemd configuration is done with files. With a very well defined structure called units that you can use to configure, boot, service startup, networking, containers, mount stuff, open sockets… that’s exactly the point Systemd provides a cohesive configuration file format for a system.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

So what do you do under Linux? Browse the web?

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

Oh yeah ahaha

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

Yes, I wrote the article as a collections of thoughts and links of what I’ve learn about systemd over the years. The reality is that when Debian moved to systemd I wasn’t that happy but after learning all it can do and the way it works I see it was the best move.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

Debian isn’t that far from it right now.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in Should i switch from systemd to another init system, What are the advantages of using another init system?

That list of “features” never needed to be replaced by systemd and for the most part are provided by the other init offerings.

This is plain wrong. Init wasn’t able to properly start things in parallel and monitor them. With systemd you can even create a visual representation graph of your boot services that you can use to identify what is taking more time and when things are happening.

What’s wrong with ip, iproute2, iptables/nftables, ufw, firewalld, ntp, dnscrypt, privoxy, dnsmasq, openresolve, crond, sudo, mount, syslog-ng?

What’s wrong? Too many tools, way too fragmented and poorly integrated. It is very, very easy to get into trouble if you simply setup a dual stack system with IPv6-PD with those tools. With systemd it all works of the box with simples configuration files and its way more intuitive. For eg. cron is a mess, systemd timers share the unit config format which is way better and more scalable.

I use systemd and have disabled much of it

So you are saying you could just have a very small footprint and have a very lightweight system that is very solid but instead of choose to go with a bunch of different tools? I’ve leveraged systemd to be able to have fully working system on devices with 256MB of RAM while still having RAM for other important applications.

TCB13 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to linux in What's up with all these immutable distributions? What are the benefits and disadvantages of them?

You know, there was Ansible, containers, ZFS and BTRFS that provided all the required immutability needed already but someone decided to transform regular machines into MIPS-style shitty devices that have a read-only OSes and a separate partition for configs. :D

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Noob NGINX / self-host question

1. If you’ve a public IP address at your home and you can setup port forwards at your router then you don’t need a VPS.
2. Check the post by @dataprolet

TCB13 , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Noob NGINX / self-host question

My recommendation for a free dynamic DNS service goes for freedns.afraid.org

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in SystemD

Maybe you should hire me then?

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in SystemD

The problem of not having systemd is the mess what’ve seen before. It doesn’t make sense to have 200 different services to be able to have usable dual-stack networking. Furthermore Init and Cron are aging, having everything based on bash scripts doesn’t cut it anymore - they don’t scale, you can’t monitor and audit things properly and worse it creates a dependency on some very specific shell.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in how to interpret this, yay output?

You know, that’s kind of the point. Either way any repository is technically an user repository that can be added to apt.

TCB13 , 11 months ago to linux in what's everybody's thoughts on Alma and Rocky Linux?

What about just running the good and stable Debian and ignore anything else that might be half proprietary or turn to be abandonware sometime in the future. Most arguments against using Debian are just lies and lack of knowledge, if you want real stability and long term support go with Debian. Also, most likely 99.99% of the people that used CentOS can run everything they need on Debian with zero issues.

But oh well this CentOS / RedHat mess just proved what I know for a long time: people deserve what the had. Why you may ask? Because right on the that mess a large percentage of people migrated from CentOS to Ubuntu Server replacing one problem with another. When are people going to learn NOT TO use questionable open-source?