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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: 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.