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There are many, many users for every one of us packagers. We (at least the four I am aware of, including myself) are not doing 'gotta catch em all', we're doing "we have been notif…

Ooh, another +1 for reasons to maintain 32-bit support. Thanks for the tip.

The systemd journald test is the longest one on my 3 GHz Power9 system, nearly timing out: 1475/1475 systemd:libsystemd / test-journal-verify OK 28.44s but on x86 it runs in under …

That would be amazing, but I don't imagine that malloc internal probes would be readily accepted to musl even if they were improved. One of the things musl admits is the ability to…

FWIW, that is an unofficial mirror repo and very old. gcompat lives at https://git.adelielinux.org/adelie/gcompat .

It's true. systemd has a lot of good ideas with questionable implementations. I'd love networkd if it didn't have silly decisions made. And it has some questionable ideas with good…

A lot of people care about BSDs and embedded Linux systems. Such as: Netflix (FreeBSD), anyone with a Linux-based router or cable/DSL modem, and so on. That said, parallel startup …

> Either way, super cool. What's the likelihood that this ends up getting upstreamed? High: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A... >.

And Windows now has WSL to implement the open API, because it's so popular. And implements SSH and sudo, because they're so popular. Etc :)

I care deeply, and was one of the early adopters of the Talos. I do my graphics and design work on an iMac G5, still. Power is the hill I'm willing to die on, technologically speak…

* GNU tools are often bloated, with extensions that the vast majority of people do not need or want. While we don't have quite the same focus on "must be small binary size" as Alpi…

LibreOffice is a known pain point we are trying to resolve. Flatpak is on my list of things to package. Firefox and Thunderbird 102 need Rust toolchain updates that are queued but …

I agree that the web site needs a significant amount of rework. The APK package manager specifically makes all transactions atomic: if `apk upgrade` returns an error, your system i…

They have ConsoleKit2 support patched back in. libudev-devd - a stub implementing UDev APIs atop FreeBSD devd: https://www.freshports.org/devel/libudev-devd/

You do realise avahi-client is a standalone CLI resolver, and Avahi is what both Gnome (gvfs) and KDE (kio) use to find mDNS clients on the network? There's also nss-mdns at https:…

KDE really, really needs logind - it can't really use ConsoleKit any more. Same with SDDM, though I think the CK2 backend is still writhing in agony somewhere in its codebase. And …

We started a separate BSD userland project before Chimera even existed, but we didn't feel the port was up to our standards of quality, so we shelved it. Removing our dependence on…

Disclosure: Founded the project, still have a somewhat active role in package maintenance. Updates/upgrades are a major area of focus and everyone I know who has tried it out was a…

This has more to do with systemd trying to be a "system layer" project for Linux, and influential projects (initially Gnome, then KDE, and now a lot of other things) going along wi…

Yes, there is some progress it seems: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html

I like the off-by-one there, and choose to interpret it as intentional. The fourth item is what I find to be the most interesting. I really hadn't thought about it that way before.…

Thanks! I hadn't considered that use case.

I'm unaware of any Linux distribution using SMF. If there was, I would have been running it. I didn't really like pfexec (it felt bolted on and not quite there yet), and I really r…

The monoculture problem is one that I really tried to cover in the article, indeed. While I do agree that a "super server" listening to the network could be a new (or old, with (x)…