Thanks for the clarification, it make sense indeed, specially if you don’t come from a long term Unix background.

Today Linux world feels more and more unnecessarily complicated somehow. I am getting old.

I see that containers get lot of love, but really setting up wireguard is writing a text config file, why would you need containers for that?

Wire guard + some nft tables or ip tables rules is a much better solution.

Ssh on itself can do the port forward part but for the routing you still need the above mentioned rules. In addition, ssh will not autoreconnect if anything happens and you need to add autossh or some other solution to keep it rolling.

LFS is great, I started with it 25 years ago (not joking, it was GCC 2.9 time)

But quickly discovered Gentoo and been there since that time. LFS is not maintainable, Gentoo is the good of LFS plus perfect maintainability.

The idea rocks… Love it!

… Something that added to a Gentoo distribution would be amazing …

Msata and ssd, they are both sata and ssd.

Maybe one is faster because its newer or so, but there shouldn’t be much difference. Its not nvme, its msata.

I would slap the two disks in Linux software raid1 to leverage drive failure and use an external disk for backups, maybe over the network (local or remote).

If you don’t want to waste 50% of your space, use one disk as home, the other as root&boot&swap (is swap even a good idea? Maybe zram). Any extra space on the other dunnow… Mybe additional home space?

Never had issues. Both with nvidia and Intel cards.

I fully agree with you…

Its just complex.

I hate it for my Android device maintainer role much more than my Linux admin role…

On Android, its a fucking mess between vendor stuff and system stuff. But not for selinux itself, but for the mess that vendors often do.

I think you got it wrong. Nft is replacing iptables. Ufw is only a frontend.

Actually, your uoyabled might just be a wrapper on nft.

Gentoo lover and long time user here, OpenRC only.

Feel free to pm/DM me for any question in general.

I use Genkernel, works like a charm.

Linux From Scratch rulez!

Migrate from Nix to Linux From Scratch!

Ha, home has been traditionally always on a separate drive. That’s the reason why root user has the home under /root and not /home/root, so that it can login even if the home drive didn’t Mount.

As a curiosity, even /usr was traditionally on a separate drive and that’s why critical binaries and libraries where under /bin and /lib while all non critical stuff under /usr. It is called “split-usr”.

Nowadays /usr is always on the same drive as root, and we moved to a “merge-usr” approach where stuff under /lib and /bin is a symlink into /usr/lib and /usr/bin.

Because when HDDs where 50mb in size, even that small binary file counted as big :)

This is one of the most spot-on replies in this thread. Thanks! I think what you wrote is basically correct.

Only people who cares on how the basics is Linux stays compatible and fully free (as in freedom). But that’s fine, as far as systemd can be optional.

That is true, it’s open source after all. But i am maybe too old to remember Microsoft strategies to embrace and extinguish… So i am a bit worried, like i was worried that Magisk would be crippled since the lead dev was hired by Google (and indeed, there have been very few progress on Magisk, with Kernel SU getting all the hype lately).

Probably it’s too much asking to go trough all of them indeed, it’s lemmy afterall, already most of the comments didnt actually read the entire first post either.

But i think i didnt have to provide “pro-systemd” links as my intent is not to discuss it’s technical goodness (which i do not dispute!) but to understand what is the common idea about the fact that systemd could be a critical part of Linux which is in the hands of IBM and Microsoft and what this means for the linux community overall.

Either nobody cares, or it’s too much complottistic to be real.

Yes, that is one point. Having the main dev working for “the enemy”. Systemd being developed by the main dev who is at microsoft? To me that rings some bells.

He will keep doing a great job, he is paid for this, but the point is that microsoft could try to control linux a bit too much, and so is IBM…

Thank you, at least somebody took care to actually respond to my question somehow!

I am not debating it’s good or bad from a technical perspective, i don’t care, i am sure it’s good otherwise why use it at all.

Why are you focusing on that? I never said it’s been forced, i never said its bad or evil, i never discredited it.

I think it’s worth understanding if the non technical points are just FUD or not, i worry about the future of Linux, not the future of it’s init system whatever it is, all it need to do is satisfy it’s function and OpenRC do it as well as systemd (there, with the small d is it different?).

I was under the impression SystemD was the name, with the capitals and all. Will fix the top post if this is somehow offending you. Whatever.

Did you read my post at all? Maybe I am not clear enough.

I don’t care for systemd, I don’t dislike it I don’t like it. I don’t use it but merely because I never felt the need to use it, or I would have use it.

What people think of the non technical reasons given in the links/post is what I am asking. Is it just FUD or there is a valid base to them?