awilfox

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by awilfox 5mo ago
There are many, many users for every one of us packagers. We (at least the four I am aware of, including myself) are not doing 'gotta catch em all', we're doing "we have been notified by users that this package (is not|
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by awilfox 5mo ago
Ooh, another +1 for reasons to maintain 32-bit support. Thanks for the tip.
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Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?(dalmatian.life)
46 points by awilfox 6mo ago|67 comments
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by awilfox 2y ago
The systemd journald test is the longest one on my 3 GHz Power9 system, nearly timing out: 1475/1475 systemd:libsystemd / test-journal-verify OK 28.44s but on x86 it runs in
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by awilfox 2y ago
That would be amazing, but I don't imagine that malloc internal probes would be readily accepted to musl even if they were improved. One of the things musl admits is the ability to swap allocators around; you can just LD_PRELOAD a new
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by awilfox 2y ago
FWIW, that is an unofficial mirror repo and very old. gcompat lives at https://git.adelielinux.org/adelie/gcompat .
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by awilfox 2y ago
It's true. systemd has a lot of good ideas with questionable implementations. I'd love networkd if it didn't have silly decisions made. And it has some questionable ideas with good implementations. For example, I hate the
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by awilfox 2y ago
A lot of people care about BSDs and embedded Linux systems. Such as: Netflix (FreeBSD), anyone with a Linux-based router or cable/DSL modem, and so on. That said, parallel startup is possible on those systems too. There was an out-of
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by awilfox 2y ago
> Either way, super cool. What's the likelihood that this ends up getting upstreamed? High: < https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A... >.
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by awilfox 3y ago
And Windows now has WSL to implement the open API, because it's so popular. And implements SSH and sudo, because they're so popular. Etc :)
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by awilfox 3y ago
I care deeply, and was one of the early adopters of the Talos. I do my graphics and design work on an iMac G5, still. Power is the hill I'm willing to die on, technologically speaking. The bi-endianness matters a lot to me. I prefe
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by awilfox 3y ago
* GNU tools are often bloated, with extensions that the vast majority of people do not need or want. While we don't have quite the same focus on "must be small binary size" as Alpine, needless waste is still needless waste.
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by awilfox 3y ago
LibreOffice is a known pain point we are trying to resolve. Flatpak is on my list of things to package. Firefox and Thunderbird 102 need Rust toolchain updates that are queued but not yet live. Chromium is a non-starter: it doesn't s
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by awilfox 3y ago
I agree that the web site needs a significant amount of rework. The APK package manager specifically makes all transactions atomic: if `apk upgrade` returns an error, your system is in the state it was before it was executed. If it does no
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by awilfox 3y ago
They have ConsoleKit2 support patched back in. libudev-devd - a stub implementing UDev APIs atop FreeBSD devd: https://www.freshports.org/devel/libudev-devd/
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by awilfox 3y ago
You do realise avahi-client is a standalone CLI resolver, and Avahi is what both Gnome (gvfs) and KDE (kio) use to find mDNS clients on the network? There's also nss-mdns at https://github.com/avahi/nss-mdns but i
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by awilfox 3y ago
KDE really, really needs logind - it can't really use ConsoleKit any more. Same with SDDM, though I think the CK2 backend is still writhing in agony somewhere in its codebase. And KDE's touchpad integration relies on libinput, wh
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by awilfox 3y ago
We started a separate BSD userland project before Chimera even existed, but we didn't feel the port was up to our standards of quality, so we shelved it. Removing our dependence on GNU software is a definite goal of mine, though it is
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by awilfox 3y ago
Disclosure: Founded the project, still have a somewhat active role in package maintenance. Updates/upgrades are a major area of focus and everyone I know who has tried it out was always impressed that they could just `apk upgrade`, reb
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by awilfox 3y ago
This has more to do with systemd trying to be a "system layer" project for Linux, and influential projects (initially Gnome, then KDE, and now a lot of other things) going along with it. Honestly, I see no reason a distribution co
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by awilfox 3y ago
Yes, there is some progress it seems: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
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by awilfox 3y ago
I like the off-by-one there, and choose to interpret it as intentional. The fourth item is what I find to be the most interesting. I really hadn't thought about it that way before. I remember the discussion in Fedora mailing lists ar
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by awilfox 3y ago
Thanks! I hadn't considered that use case.
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by awilfox 3y ago
I'm unaware of any Linux distribution using SMF. If there was, I would have been running it. I didn't really like pfexec (it felt bolted on and not quite there yet), and I really really hated ZFS (and still do), but SMF made Sol
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by awilfox 3y ago
The monoculture problem is one that I really tried to cover in the article, indeed. While I do agree that a "super server" listening to the network could be a new (or old, with (x)inetd) concern, a well-written and well-designed p
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Systemd through the eyes of a musl distribution maintainer(catfox.life)
167 points by awilfox 3y ago|152 comments
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by awilfox 3y ago
I'm going to be honest here: Bluey means a lot to me, as a 32-year-old childless woman, because this show has really touched me in ways that may not be obvious at first: I've felt more in touch with my own imagination since I st
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by awilfox 3y ago
> with heavy-handed social messages infecting what should be simple cartoons. I kinda giggled at this, because I just last night saw "Pass the Parcel", which to me was the one time they sent this up and they did it so well.
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by awilfox 3y ago
> It's not all happy, singsongy, bright-colored drivel "Oh man, the songs." - Bandit, "Movies".
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by awilfox 3y ago
I don't know if I really agree. The creator has stated that the point was to appeal to kids and adults, and I think Bluey pulls that off perfectly. This is similar to Friendship is Magic , which I'm surprised nobody else has b

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