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https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wipe_fix/
Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory. That's a feature.
The 256.1 release is now out, containing some 38 minor changes and bugfixes. Among these are some changes to the help text around the systemd-tmpfiles command, which describes itself as a tool to "Create, delete, and clean up files and directories." Red Hat's RHEL documentation describes it as a tool for managing and cleaning up your temporary files.
That sounds innocuous enough, right?
It isn't, as Github user jedenastka discovered on Friday. He filed bug #33349 and the description makes for harrowing reading, not just because of the tool's entirely intended behavior, but also because of the systemd maintainers' response, which could be summarized as "you're doing it wrong".
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday June 23 2024, @10:36AM (5 children)
From the top of their website: "PCLinuxOS The Boomer Distribution"
Okay, I'll try it anyway. :)
Yeah, it looks really good. I wasn't a fan of .rpm when it first came out long ago, but I grew to like it, yum, etc. Looks like they'll run apt too. I don't know if anyone has a unified package manager, but that'd be 'uge.
I remember why I didn't try it when I was evaluating systemd-less distros: it's 64-bit only, and I have need for OS update on someone's 32-bit hardware. But I'll still try it for my own hardware.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Sunday June 23 2024, @02:10PM
I liked the Drak installer a lot better. Tex recently changed to one that actually requires user input if you want partitions. Used to be two clicks to confirm defaults, done. Don't feel like I can hand the new one to raw newbies.
Yeah, that's his GFY, Tex has no patience with dumb shit like the recent spate of hate for boomers (Day of the Pillow, as one guy puts it) by people incompetent to fix their own lives. ;P
You can do all the usual CLI package mgmt but I think I've needed to look outside Synaptic ... once? because at one point SeaMonkey wasn't available (so I just found an RPM and unzipped it). PCLOS apparently uses a hybrid; having no need to delve in the guts, I don't care. :)
The only real downside is that it's a one man band and when Tex goes (old guy and health not great) will anyone competent step up? Devuan now uses our desktop and general way of doing things, but Devuan has the same upgrade woes as Debian (which recently insisted that it must do a full reinstall... against my religion, I already dislike Debian, why are you selling me on =everything= else??).Still haven't found another I'd happily jump to, at need. So... PCLOS as long as I can.
Yeah, 32bit support got dropped a few years back... kind of a shame because it will run reasonably well on REALLY old hardware. I have it on a 2008 laptop of minimal specs (2GB RAM) and it's fine. With KDE desktop only uses about 600mb RAM, and with Trinity or Openbox only about 300mb. (Vs. a friend reported Ubuntu now using 1.9GB just to admire its navel. What are we, Windows 10??) On the newer hardware (i7-3xxx) and an old SSD, it's literally 5 seconds from boot to usable desktop.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2024, @04:28PM (3 children)
I just can't get over how dumb the name is--it's doubly redundant. "PCLinuxOS"...everybody knows Linux is an OS, and it being on PC is the main use case; why do you need to state it outright? Now you're left with a name that is breathtakingly generic, and if you get rid of all the redundancy reduces to "Linux". It doesn't even contain any unique info in the name at all :P
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday June 24 2024, @01:43PM
Agreed, it's a bloody silly name, but.... no worse than the weird and irrelevant names that so many linux things get tagged with. At least it's obvious what it is, no guesswork or lookups required. And that was kinda the point, I think.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday June 25 2024, @01:17PM (1 child)
No, no, no...
Linux is just a kernel, it is GNU/Linux. Stallman would turn over in his grave. Ducks....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 26 2024, @04:54AM
Let's just admit that the ship has sailed on that at some point in the last 33 years.