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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 ls671 on Monday June 24 2024, @08:58AM (1 child)
Sounds interesting. Website says it uses apt. Did you ever tried installing application provided on alternative sites as apt packages or even debian repository packages with it? I still use Slackware nowadays along with debian as well.
It's easier to simply install an apt package on debian and a lot more stuff is available than in Slackware repositories. For Slackware you need to compile from sources sometimes or use alternative package sites.
Rolling releases sounds like a great idea too.
So, how compatible are debain packages with PCLinuxOS?
Thanks in advance!
Everything I write is lies, including this sentence.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday June 24 2024, @01:40PM
I don't know, as when I want something I just fire up Synaptic and... our repository is freakin' huge. And the one time something wasn't there (SeaMonkey, of all things), I found an RPM and unzipped it and ran it directly (sort of a poor man's container). I think I've visited the command line... once? whereas with Fedora, I found it easier to do all the maintenance and installs in at the CL (Discover is just too freakin' slow, and fails on a slow connection).
Advantage, rolling is always up to date; busted things are fixed a lot faster, and I have not seen any deficits from "more bugs". Disadvantage, you need to stay on top of updates; if it gets severely out of date you may have trouble. But one of our number started from the oldest version that would still run (2011 or 2012 vintage) and rolled it all the way to the present (then 2022, IIRC) and only had to visit the CL twice to unstick something. My current install was done in 2017 and frozen about a year ago (good thing as turned out I needed an old Chrome...) and one of these days I ought to set up a fresh one.
I appreciate the slick performance (KDE desktop running at JWM speed, and minimal RAM usage), stability, and that everything Just Works. I used to mess with, uh, challenging OSs, but am past the stage where I'm willing to fight with the OS just to use it. With PCLOS I just install (a five minute process), do some cosmetic tweaks, done.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.