Absolutely in favour, the non-free blobs are a persistent thorn in my side. I myself have always been tempted to replace all the fedora and debian templates with alpine or OpenBSD to get smaller VMs (and without systemd), built as many things as unikernels as possible (e.g. the MirageOS firewall), and I’d love if X11 got replaced with Wayland (that one is hard, the X11 modifications are kind of the core of what Qubes provides).
What am I supposed to do?
Learning to write a problem description that is remotely intelligible would be a start. What Distro are you on? What are you trying to accomplish? What have you tried? What error occurs (error messages or what expectations you have that are not met), etc.
My downvote stays; That is an absolutely atrocious title for it.
I personally favour Alpine Linux for its minimalism, but Devuan or Debian are fine, and more familiar choices, too. Depending on what you intend to run, especially appliance-like things, OpenBSD might be a good alternative.
Thx. No, I have yet to see anything from an LLM that I consider remotely useful. And I wouldn’t be caught dead leting one anywhere near any system integration (Just look at all of the AWS outages in the past months). I continue to remain utterly baffled whenever anyone uses them for anything (other than maybe image generation, but I’d rather pay a small artist for those); I mean, their “summaries” are just as much random garbage as their citations… They look reasonable, but that’s all they do. I think LLMs are a neat parlor trick that is going to cost us, as a species, a lot, without getting us any closer to AGI.
Also: I apologize for my wording. I had an extremely strong emotional reaction, and I shouod have stopped and thought.
I’m trying. For the record: The global-warming-increasing tech-bro-billionaire-owned LSD-tripping babble-automatons are not exactly universally applauded. Saying anything about them requires care.
I know I come across like an asshole here, and I don’t want to hurt feelings, but, in case you are human, you should really consider your impulse control, writing coherence, and, maybe, how a given topic is usally regarded by the intended audience. In short, next time, please stop and think before posting something as emotionally charged as that, ok?
Given the coherence of your post I’m frankly assuming it to be another LLM-pretends-to-be-human test balloon; And following those links would either be positive reinforcement of its utility function or tell some “real” humans that their crap at least garners interest. Just no, not even once.
Whole post reads like it was generated by an LLM, lots of words, very little sense…
Who gives a flying rat’s ass? Pestilence upon you and the electrons you rode in on.
No shit. “More” is technically correct. “A metric fuckton more” conveys the appropriate scale. It’s not like systemd added a handful small features, it has subsumed nearly everything between kernel and userland. (Note that proponents usually point this out as a good thing; It’s uncontested, you just seem blissfully unaware)
Have you considered that we don’t think any of those are “good points” worthy of comment?
Nope, but “more” doesn’t adequately capture the scale of it. Given that you talk about a predecessor (singular) I presume systems programming is not your specialty?
Ahem, it does a ton more than merely “initiate booting” (logging, time, user management, device management, the list is long and it is really hard to find a piece of basic system functionality it hasn’t subsumed), please don’t spread misinformation.
Come on, that’s pure ragebait… It’s not like it"s hard to search for all the different reasons… https://nosystemd.org/ collects a few in semi-coherent form. The short answer is: It combines a lot of previously independent systems responsibilities under one umbrella organization that holds decidedly strong opinions and is not exactly open to criticism.
I agree, but then I’m one of those really hardcore libre-software-only nutcases ;-)
EDIT: Though, to be fair, the Trident Missiles they carry are US-made, too, so…
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/
(Though, of course, that’s alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )
Nice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?
rustles papers
Oh.
I personally go with QubesOS which uses VMs to compartmentalize. It doesn’t reduce the risk of a supply chain attack itself (fedora & debian by default), but if your VMs only contain the bare minimum for a given task the risk of having a compromised package installed is lower than in a full-featured system and any compromise is also contained to that VM.