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duncaen

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    Comment #27724538

    What extra steps? Arch is missing debug packages, a package manager that can detect bad partial updates, different architectures etc.

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    Comment #26924881

    Regex to parse lisp expressions?

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    Comment #26889590

    This is not what happened according to them: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.... > (4). Once any maintainer of the community responds to the email, indi…

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    Comment #26888978

    See page 9 of the already published paper: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QiushiWu/qiushiwu.github.i... > We send the emails to the Linux communityand seek their feedback. The e…

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    Comment #25928915

    I would say that the concept and implementation in C is inherently insecure. Switching to something less reviewed because there is a sudo vulnerability is not a guarantee that you …

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    Comment #23222668

    1. Void Linux doesn't claim its BSD inspired, BSD inspired could mean 100 different things. 2. runit is not a "sysv-style" init, its the complete opposite. runit is a supervisor an…

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    Comment #21843197

    Not gentoo. I think you are thinking of chromeos.

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    Comment #21672081

    The size for `sockaddr_storage` is not defined by POSIX, but `sockaddr_un` is defined, and you can't just change the `sun_path` to a pointer, so to increase `sun_path` you would ha…

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    Comment #20854084

    Not really. From this German article[0]: > Knoppix' Startvorgang läuft nach wie vor per Sys-V-Init mit wenigen Bash-Skripten, welche die Systemdienste effizient sequenziell oder pa…

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    Comment #20853005

    If production is servers, then alpine is the better choice as it provides stable releases. Void Linux is a nice desktop system and you can run it on single servers you personally t…

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    Comment #20421426

    Most websites don't have redundant servers but its still there and used by a lot of big sites. The whole point of it is to connect to multiple A and AAAA records with a very short …

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    Comment #20416067

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs Browsers even try other IPs and alternate between IPv4 and IPv6 before the connection is established.

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    Comment #19341416

    I think the blinking "cursor" in the header is a bit distracting.

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    Comment #19137892

    Maybe they just want exploit mitigation techniques like ASLR.

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    Comment #19123798

    And that is why they implement UPnP to punch holes through it to avoid users having to manually configure routers.

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    Comment #18794265

    > Well Arch Linux Arm has optimized packages for soft-float ARMv5te, hard-float ARMv6 and ARMv7, and ARMv8 AArch64 instruction sets [1], which is even more. Right, Void does not pr…

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    Comment #18789529

    You think, but you have no clue about the differences, which are so substantial that it wouldn't be possible to convince arch to change things like this, may it be for legacy reaso…

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    Comment #16975172

    I'm sorry to hear about your experience with this, but this is simply not the case here. There is a big blog post about it, no one is trying to boot anyone out. Yes the article doe…

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    Comment #16969002

    > Furthermore, we’re in contact with a non profit organisation that helps open source projects to manage donations and other resources. We hope that we can announce further details…