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[–] KofuKid ago 

I ran mostly centos servers at home for years, but switched to openbsd about 2 years ago and haven’t regretted it. I do wish they had a better file system because FFS is kinda dated, but other than that I’m happy.

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[–] TeranNotTerran [S] ago 

Did they backport stuff like soft updates from UFS/FFS in FreeBSD?

I actually like UFS. I met the guy who wrote it (cannot remember his name off the top of my head). With soft updates, writes should be as fast as memory until you sync, at least in theory.

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[–] KofuKid ago 

I’m okay with the speed, but I am hoping to one day have something like Hammer2 with compression, deduplication and snapshots. The lack of those features in UFS/FFS isn’t something that would make me move to another OS, tho.

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[–] trotskyberg ago 

Not much substance. I can't really disagree, but there's so much complexity these days that we should focus on the overall collection of packages than any particular one. Our favorite distros should have systemd alternatives, but they'd have to be well-used distros in order to support more than one init system.

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[–] privacy_first 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Systemd dependencies are creeping up into userland packages, so much that they will not be installable unless you have systemd.

This is by design , so everybody will have systemd

Clearly NSA had an issue, Linux was not soo spyware friendly, had to do something.

Systemd is the perfect answer, covers all essential services, it is monolothing, it is a binary blob of code, you cannot disable or "adjust" it.

What is more likely.... that a bunch of "programmers" got together to write a replacement for an init system (that was working) for free and for fun OR that NSA paid them to actually do it ?

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[–] TeranNotTerran [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

This is ridiculous. Programmers operate mostly out of ego. They get some idea about how things should be and they make it. I think systemd is no different.

It's still completely open source and auditable.

Oh you know what else is big and monolithic? The kernel. That's right, they could monitor you from there.

Not every last thing is a conspiracy.

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[–] trotskyberg ago 

How can we get some more prolific contributors on board with this? Like an entire distro or from the kernel?

Sure, I can't deny that NSA is subversive as shit. We know that they're incessantly subversive because we know the kinds of people who make it up ;)

I'm hoping my favorite distro: Arch Linux, will have another full init system supported.

Also would be nice to be able to turn off AMD's PSP - because most of us don't have the cash to switch to Power9.

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[–] ThisIsMyRealName ago 

an init system (that was working)

You set a low bar.

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[–] Plavonica ago 

Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.