jabjoe

jabjoe , vor 9 Tagen

Someone got to say it....

There is no Debian if everything was a pile of Snaps/Flatpack/Docker/etc. Debian is the packaging and process that packaging is put through. Plus their FOSS guidelines.

So sure, if it's something new and dev'y, it should isolate the dependencies mess. But when it's mature, sort out the dependencies and get it into Debian, and thus all downstream of it.

I don't want to go back to app-folders. They end up with a missmash of duplicate old or whacky lib. It's bloaty, insecure and messy. Gift wrapping the mess in containers and VM, mitigates some of security issues, but brings more bloat and other issues.

I love FOSS package management. All the dependencies, in a database, with source and build dependencies. All building so there is one copy of a lib. All updating together. It's like an OS ecosystem utopia. It doesn't get the appreciation it should.

jabjoe , vor 22 Tagen

Busybox is used in the initramfs normally. It's the shell used by any scripts in that early stage, as well as the fallback shell environment.

jabjoe , vor 22 Tagen

I've been on Debian Testing for my own desktops for about 15 years now. Sometimes as a Frankendebian mixing in SID/unstable. Sometimes mainly unstable, but mostly just Testing.

It rarely breaks, but when it does, it's a learning opportunity. Stable for servers and other people's desktops. Maybe with backports. Flatpacks if this no other option.

You don't get 100% solid and 100% new. Ever. With anything.

jabjoe , vor 22 Tagen

As I said, "if this no other option". And to be honest, that was once, for a few weeks before the new KiCad hit Debian repos. And only because hardware team wouldn't wait to switch, so to open stuff, I needed it too.

jabjoe , vor 22 Tagen

You spelt monopoly wrong.

jabjoe , vor 22 Tagen

Google is not really much better than MS. It still leaves you under the yoke of big tech. "Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss".

jabjoe , vor 2 Monaten

That is Windows NT personalities. It was originally able to run OS/2 stuff too. Doesn't really make NT a UNIX. Note: They used this stuff for WSLv1, but it was slow and had same issue as WINE. Swapping underlying implementation brings out bugs of the software above.

jabjoe , vor 2 Monaten

More like file descriptor. File path is like address system, but it's not how you get all file descriptors. For example: sockets (there is bash's fake /dev/{tcp,udp}), epoll, timer, event, inotify.

In UNIX systems event systems have a list of filedescriptors with a callback for each. You could have your event loop an epoll fd itself and nest it in another.

jabjoe , vor 2 Monaten

That is a low bar for duckdom.

jabjoe , vor 2 Monaten

Surely it asked you to confirm before it remove it and all that uses it. It was just doing as you told it to do and will have asked you to confirm. You can't blame it!

jabjoe , vor 2 Monaten

How many times should it ask you if your sure? If it was serious, as in, it could actually break stuff, it gets you to type "do as I say" or something.

jabjoe , vor 3 Monaten

Lots of core UNIX and Linux projects are. C++ is not liked by a lot of low level FOSS community. I think Rust is going to get further into these areas. I know C++ well but prefer C. I know plenty of others who feel the same.

jabjoe , vor 3 Monaten

Yes, I think Rust is a better C++ and will replace it in many places. Though all three will be around for ever to be honest.

jabjoe , vor 3 Monaten

Rust is certainly interesting. I think it's the C++ we need.