jollyrogue @ jollyrogue @lemmy.ml

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Have you forgotten laws don’t stop an activity? They’re just the consequences for poor citizens if they’re caught. 😆

I’m responding to the idea that it’s something employers should offer. The private market isn’t going to fix this. They’re causing the problem and selling the “cure”.

Govs will have access to that data regardless. They don’t need compromised account databases.

Or, you know, the govs make this illegal like they should.

😳 For a second there, I thought they had guns. 😮‍💨 Also, good thing it’s BMW not Toyota.

Dale is us. We are all Dale, and Dale is all of us.

Weed!

Wikipedia says Ultrix was VAX, and OSF/1 and Tru64 Unix were Alpha.

That was the Unix wars of the ‘80s.

Linux started in ‘92 as a hobby project to create a x86 desktop Unix clone. Most Unices were tied to expensive proprietary hardware which most people couldn’t afford, but x86 equipment was fairly common.

There was 386BSD project which had the objective of porting BSD Unix to x86, but they were sued by AT&T. In the end, AT&T was using more BSD code then BSD was using Unix code.

The lawsuit chilled use of BSD code, and a young CS students decide to write a kernel from scratch rather then fork a BSD.

About the same time Linux was first released, IBM was looking for a Unix-like OS to sell on its x86 servers. The idea was, companies would get started on the low cost x86 servers and graduate to the expensive Power AIX servers. Linux fit the requirements, and it was under the GPL which meant competitors would have to release any changes they distributed to clients as a bonus.

Linux did not immediately kill the propriety Unixes. It wasn’t until after the dot com bubble burst (~2000) that Linux really started taking market share. The tech companies needed to shed expenses, and an easy way was to ditch the expensive Sun equipment running Solaris in favor of commodity x86 running Linux.

The GPL played a role since it meant people distributing Linux needed to release their changes. Linux distros can be fairly different though, so I’m not sure how much of a part it played.

I’m trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a few personal servers as I wait for Slowroll, I want to get back to trying to get Gentoo running, and I should check out Guix as a server in a VM.

Gentoo having a binary option should help since I seem to mess up the kernel part of the installation.

Lemmy needs a “Vote for best of” feature.

Vanity license plates! 😄

They’ve had a year to work on the layoffs.

Yup. Warm up that resume and work on an exit strategy.

What are we ranking? The boot order of computers?

Of the 3 you listed, the init is only important to a few distros.

Also you forgot this is Linux and the initramfs.

Package manager needs to be higher since Linux distros are software distribution projects mainly.

1. Package manager
2. Config tools
3. Config defaults
4. Kernel
5. Init process
6. Software

As an alternative idea…

A using a spare desktop as a headless VM server would be a good way to practice your CLI skills. Don’t install a GUI, or web admin tool, and only use SSH to admin it.

From there, setup a couple of VMs for Arch or Gentoo testing. Eventually, a Linux From Scratch attempt would provide a lot of learning opportunities.

The third rule of fight club is don’t yuck others yum.

It’s possible to let them know the email is active, and they should follow up.

Was it Arcan or something else?

Maybe they should start bombing them. That seems to be their answer for everything at the moment.