linux no-systemd minimalism

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  • yianiris@kafeneio.socialOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlCorporate Spam Bot
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    10 months ago

    The majority of people speak of junk/fast food 3 brands of soda, 2, 3 brands of coffee/tea, 2 brnands of tropical fruit ,3 brands of power-drinks, 3 brands of beer,
    as nutrition, 2 brands of phone OSs, and it is all crap if not bad for you.

    So what is your point?

    What is popular is what has been marketed, and it is usually both dominant and a very poor alternative to what it sells for.

    @Rustmilian



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    Init is just one process, 98% of systemd is its logind, or its isolated fork called elogind, and its multilayered dbus labyrinth, which all those mentioned use. Running gnome and its applications without it is nearly impossible
    @Rustmilian

    The one article almost literally says if you don’t like systemd go to F**BSD and away from linux!

    But yes, there are those irrelevant 3 mentions in a site as old as systemd itself.





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    And they have made money not by sharing but by monopolizing and selling, which makes them who they are.

    You are a foul if you think a for profit (even non-profit) corporation will have an interest advancing Open and Free software. They are there to OWN code and trade names, MARKET trade names, to defeat alternatives that lack corporate/banking funding.

    @Rustmilian


  • 2 Do you honestly think one can just make a fake account up, register, and publish an AUR pkg with rogue code that easy? There are checks for code whether it is safe or not, whether it is asking for right elevation, altering the filesystem’s rights, etc.
    You are making it sound like registering for X and publishing a tweet.

    3 The most dangerous software I see on AUR is browser bins by the BIG NAMES not the little script stuff.
    People are afraid of people instead of large corps
    @constantokra



  • Then what you consider automatic is a very unique perception of how things work.
    In a car automatic transmission means it shifts on its own.
    In a non automatic either you shift or it doesn’t happen.

    On most pkg managers YOU elect when to upgrade, the output is a list of “upgradable” pkgs, then you are asked whether to proceed or not. Nothing automatic about this.

    Auto update would mean software has been updated on its own without you authorizing it.

    @Nibodhika



  • You can use sshd/sshfs to transfer files from a vm to another system, or even another vm.

    You can shrink the installations partition to 90-95% used space, unmount the target, use dd –> tar.xz/lz/gz then the reverse to a new slightly larger partition, check enlarge whatever, configure, even the UUID of the partition transfers, so even grub.cfg/limine.cfg/lilo/syslinux all work just install in MBR or efi and reboot.

    @d3Xt3r @governorkeagan





  • Auto downloading and installing software is pretty much a violation of ethics in the unix ecosystem, pretty much anything that begins with Auto should be rejected.

    But the general public wants the convenience and luxury of having things done by others without being bothered. Many distros competing with each other for lazy newcomers (ubuntu, mint, debian, manjaro, …) they provide all those non-unix like utilities.

    Lately it is getting worse, all sorts of telemtry is branded good

    @Nibodhika