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> What I mean is that there are init systems that only require POSIX compliant APIs Those are irrelevant as they can't even do basic tasks like shutting down the computer or restar…

So changing an implementation detail how the support for sysvinit scripts for systemd works means they "removed everything they could"? That's a strange way to put it. And if "apt-…

The main driver behind the initial fork isn't even a sysadmin, but an art student who initiated Devuan as part of an art project and his PhD thesis: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/ha…

That need is already fulfilled by Debian? Just install sysvinit. (edit:) Also consider that if Debian would stop supporting sysvinit, a distribution adding support for it again wou…

So they now officially recommend Debian to people who value true init freedom?

I'm looking forward to Devuan going stable in 2020. But seriously, Devuan had some success with its core mission (drawing away the trolls and conspiracy theorists from Debian). The…

And at least OpenSuSE and Slackware just patched the warning out already -- probably after getting hit by it in the past. See for example the patch in Slackware: https://slackbuild…

Because any (possibly security-relevant) update to a library would mean that all software linking it statically has to be rebuilt. In reality that of course doesn't happen, so prog…

> lose a private key that they generated for me Found your problem: you should never have someone generate a private key for you.

That's wrong. You can get more than 5 certs/domain: either you have to wait a week (it's 5 certs/domain/week), or you include multiple hostnames in a single certificate (up to 100 …

To quote the original post: > Unix has a long tradition of doing a `rm -rf /` before reinstalling a system. I don't agree with the people saying "don't do that". So, yes, "traditio…

So cargo-cult? Doing things out of "tradition" without understanding what they are for?

What's that supposed to be good for? It certainly doesn't remove any file contents and to get a clean state, surely reformatting would be both easier and quicker?

Sane distributions don't include that alias by default. Because otherwise people will always use `rm -f` and lose the feature that `rm` asks before removing files marked as read-on…