I like cinnamon. Haven’t run desktop Linux since slackware, so it was a breath of fresh air on Nobara.

Nobara for fun, rocky for work.

I worked on United Linux, with suse. Never again.

The canonical method was with a kickstart, and if it looks like too complex, remember you should have one stashed in /root already that you just need to mod.

Normally a kickstart is a bit much, otherwise, though. I use a suite of tools but the best one I used was a simple virtual package to bring in the others, drop configs in and start daemons. We did this in like 2001 to great effect.

Dood. Boot times are useless ‘flex’ metrics more influenced by processor and disk speed than init systems. My el5 and el6 archive systems boot faster than my el7 ELS system, which itself is faster than el9; but not by enough to matter when you’re booting every week to a month. It’s never BEEN an issue.

Compare complexity: Has your init system metastasized over the entire host and re-implemented (poorly) other core systems, so long-dependable features just simply don’t work, and everything has its own rinky-dink silly-walk to configure instead of /etc/fstab or /etc/exports, instead of staying in its lane? No? You’re good. Diversity and specialization will give you excellent results and security. Yes? You have systemd.

There’s your comparison.

The smartest guy I ever met - dizzyingly smart - coded virtual memory management replacements for Unix from putty on windows.

Is that guy elite? Are you being elitist?

1. Win31 sucked
2. I needed a modem terminal for my 386.

NATO just wants the one without the remote kill switch in the baby hands of a belligerent narcissist.

Your kids’ school bus

Look at this journalist, thinking anyone with kids can afford to have more than one.

Soooo, good, right? Is that what I should be seeing?

• Akrites establishes a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and a single, standardized Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process, built on confidentiality-first principles and industry-standard tooling.

Soo XKCD 927?

Have we ever considered not using really bad installer paradigms until they’re fixed? It seems like alternatives are right there, but still people are choosing the worst idea and running with it.

I say this as someone who worked Unix and Linux security for an OS vendor – better alternatives are there.

“ferroelectric fluid” sounds very sandpapery to plastic housings.

That’s a very excellent response. Greetings, fellow greybeard. I miss apt-rpm.

I don’t use laptops.

I have some dell optiplex and poweredge in the home-lab.

These machines are ported through a KVM, and I’m using a desktop on proxmox where the GPU, mouse, keyboard, sound and cam are ported into the fedora VM via proxmox from there the KVM connects.

I play WoW and zero-k, but the voice chat isn’t working in WoW.

• flatpak packages.

Yay, Gramps! I got you a supply-chain exploit! Wheee!

everything ran over Tor

… everything run over Tor …

Systemd: hate it for what it is and how it’s built, and continue hating it for its capitulation to intrusive surveillance.

cut the Crimea region of Ukraine off from the belligerent invader Russia

Fixed that for ya.

emails

Not a noun, my dude.

I use seamonkey, but only for convenience. It grabs all my email and caches it locally for me.

Spell-check is so weird.