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  • Why does every distro need yet another package manager?

    1. Some are improvements
    2. People hang onto the one they designed

    There are some formats with excellent features like segregation of build and use, consistency of product and signed manifests. BUT, if you don’t get why that’s important you’ll take a deb-based distro or one that builds continually in-situ and never realize it’s a risk.

    Having said that, apt4rpm was great, yum was bad, dnf is featureless shit, and redhat is quickly broadcomming under IBM because #ibm. So go get PCLinuxOS and ask where the box templates are. And that’s my 25-year summary of package management.










  • I have a friend whose family immigrated to Fiji from India before coming here. He’s bi-cultural, and his super-power comes from his heritage.

    Also, he will wait on the phone and talk to as many reps as required in order to get a discount. In CANADA, his full-up TV package - sports, streaming, movies, 1gbps internet, etc - is $1 for the next 2 years. Then he’ll call again and bring up the days where things didn’t work, mention how this is a consistent pattern they promised to eliminate, and launder all that into another 2 years just so they can be rid of him. He outlasts them.






  • Biggest pain point was for our ops guy, who constantly had to stay behind to perform upgrades and maintenance,

    This is weird.

    Hosts selected for updates will be unavailable from 2100-2110 or so. Then they’re up.

    They’re done by at/cron if they’re selected.

    There’s no manual work if the monitoring system thinks they’re okay.

    Gitlab-ce on-prem. Although that may now suck since they’re being bought out; and we all know how that went for redhat.