can systemd do ANYTHING other systems can not do? Can you transition to wayland?

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NO!

NO, what? To which question, both?

Then what is the problem with systemd or replacing it with another system?

The quick answer is NO, but in reality one must be able to match the resources of IBM/x-RH to chase behind this dog when this dog does its best to try to shake all tailgaters away from it.  “It” wants to run throughout the system, from bios/efi/boot-loading to every click you make on the desktop with your mouse or finger touch to the touch-screen.  PRECISELY what google has done on android, for which we have no say it is a private non-open non-free system.  Monkey see, monkey do, monkey governments enforce its use, monkeys conform.  Fuck you google and fuck the state that mandates its use (I wonder if North Korean sites have google apis in them, RT do!).

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firefox/mozilla forks recent menu vanishes and how to get it back

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Nice trick that works coming from Reik Reid in the VTWM community

Firefox and some of its clones in recent times, when used in a non-systemd, non-DM, non-dbus/logind environment they open up without the topline menus being visible.  Mozilla trying to log and control through those spying environments all they can will allow the menus to vanish when their spying gadgets aren’t present.

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Sage takes a spin of Alpine and contrasts it with antiX

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Posted as comment by “sage” (we can correct this if you want a pseudo-name associated as editor) – we only replaced reddit with runit 🙂

Regarding Alpine linux.

On a whim, I gave alpine a try. I wanted to see if I could get a nice minimal desktop going similar to what Antix-23-runit has done on another (matching in specs) PC. It was rough going at first, but I was able to install the setup-xorg package and the herbstluftwm from their repos but could not get access to the xserver (most likely the elogind thing, which was not installed on the bare system). Continue reading →

syslog-ng how long have logs being accessible by your sys-admin?

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Interesting discussion taking place in a r/joborun thread about building syslog-ng without systemd and telemetry!

What is interesting is that the author of syslog-ng took notice of the article and responded himself defending his choice.

This may continue so visit the link directly but here are the first two responses to the article:

https://www.reddit.com/r/joborun/comments/16x7u8o/users_of_syslogng_beware_telemetry_is_coming_not/
users of syslog-ng beware …. telemetry is coming! Not from skarnet
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Obarun alone employing a new paradigm of software building?

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About the most outdated software in Obarun is s6 and 66.  The first stack from skarnet is about 4-5 versions behind on each piece, who knows why, maybe no time to test the changes?  The next, if it was rebuilt on top of skarnet’s latest stable stack maybe it would fall apart?  It hasn’t for Joborun after several rebuilds.  But the aging 66 hasn’t received much attention in recent time, many commits but no release for nearly 2 years now.  The next release will make your known 66 appear as very different software all together.  All documentation written in the past will have to be re-written, all procedures and commands changed, all options and ways of doing things will be new.  And new is always better!!  Right?  Right?

What is new in Obarun is the way packages are being built.  No longer labor intensive processes of overseeing bumps on software editions, it is all algorithm triggered.  How?  Since obarun chases arch-stable behind, as soon as a package placed on the new system is bumped by arch, the previous arch pkgbuild is contrasted against the new, its differences from obarun are saved in a patch file, and the patch is applied to the new pkgbuild.  Then the software is placed on the builder, tested that it is built without errors and warnings, and then placed on the repo.  Continue reading →

When going gets tough those with ulterior motives find easier ways – eudev consolekit2

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Recent excitement revolves around talk about eudev deficiencies as a replacement for systemd’s udev.  Consolekit2 having too many functionalities missing against elogind that it will eventually run out of steam.  In particular this package named libgudev requires now particular version specific udev utilities to compile and eudev has not reached this stage of development.  Developer/s said when time comes available it will receive some refreshing and incorporation of this utility.  But what is the rush?  For packages that are used to auto-discover and mount disks (particularly usb hot-plugs) and for them to be the latest of edition need this updated libgudev that eudev can’t support.

Should a community critical against systemd domination mind such dis-functionality?  Hopefully nobody here believes it should.  Didn’t we expect this to be a struggle or did we expect it to come easy?  Are there people here who think they can have the choice of not using systemd/elogind and libraries but have 100% functional Gnome or Plasma desktops and tools (gui-gadgets)?  Being against systemd is being critical of the sacrifices a system/distro should make in order to incorporate growing automation and convenience. Isn’t it?  Continue reading →

Anonymity and corporate FOSS

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Question:  Is it a conspiracy theory that make the act of publishing on the net anything anonymously impossible?

Answer:  You can go on facebook, twitter, social media and publish anonymously, so this doesn’t hold water as an argument, most people will tell you they publish stuff anonymously every day, like memes they came up with, giggle giggle, LoL, etc.

Q:  But to publish through this social media you are bound with an agreement that gives the power to the social media site the right to remove, block, users and content without any reason for debate.  To publish something like code or binaries for a system, or ideas in a wiki/document/html in a site, where only you can control the content of, you can not do anonymously.

A: There are disroot, osdn, neocities, indymedia (what’s left of it after m-l marxists managed to destroy it, almost in alignment with capitalist state agencies) and a few others, that still allow a brief window of opportunity.  Who knows for how long more.  Legislation, just like in the US, travels and replicates itself against such freedoms world wide, and the consequences for using “their wires” are always economic.   People have this false notion because of “cheap” access, that the wiring and network belong to us.  Nobody wants to lose their shelter, food, health, evem freedom or life, for publishing your strange ideas, or code. Continue reading →

Is it the end for linux distros without systemd? Is doomsday near?

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Mozilla in recent releases is making it really hard for non-systemd distros to comply.  Fake non-systemd distros using udev and elogind out of the latest systemd don’t seem to have a problem.  On their legality concept simply replacing pid1 with a different named process makes them “non-systemd”, void and artix included, and worst of all Gentoo of all fake linux-without-systemd.

Why is this happening?  Basically a paradigm shift, millennials (this is a term in the common English dictionary now), are cheap (you know what but I will refrain from using sexist work terminology) like convenience and comfort, luxury and “don’t care, don’t give a …” attitudes.  They are willing to try non-systemd distros, but want their flashy desktops, their carchy graphic DMs, they want ALL INSTALLED “apps” to start from cloudy pop-up-menus as users, hw plugged in and functional as soon as pushing the usb plug, they want their browser to display “all webpages” despite of what they ask in return (full access to your /home at least) or want a mail program like thunderbird to chat, use calendar luxuries for their appointment, … and Mozilla is handing them all to IBM for lunch.

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IBM’s systemd attempt to pull the plug on distros using eudev

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libgudev is a low level library that bridges connections between udev and graphic stuff (Gobject) and hasn’t been a problem in the past building it with libeudev instead of its own libudev from systemd.

Edition 238 comes out and specifies in code the udev version limit to 251 or higher, with a specific function checking this in the code provided by a similar function in udevd.  Gnome team is the one publishing ibgudev, so you can’t expect to talk sense into them.  The eudev project recently, carried over from the abandoned Gentoo project, is built on 243 edition.

As described by someone on the open issue of eudev the problem is: Continue reading →

antiX 23 next stable based on debian’s bookworm is here already

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antix-23-beta2-iso-files-for-testing/ (release announcement and sourgeforge or is it sourceforce .. repository of images)

Based on the announcement above we tested the runit based full image with an urge to hunt and find something to criticize, constructively of course.  We uninstalled some things we don’t like, even when they work right, installed some others, openbox, pcmanfm, lxterminal, conky, and everything worked.  No elogind, no dbus running, no polkit, no automount or auto.. anything.  Then we flipped repos to sid, where things are expected to be exciting.  A beta release, and unstable repositories, which defeats the purpose of testing bookworm (testing repo a few weeks ago for Debian) … but you can only test antiX to a certain point before it gets too boring. Continue reading →

A new low for the systemd gang and what it may mean (libblockdev udisks2 udiskie)

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WOW I can plug an external disk into my pc and it shows up on my MS look-alike filemanager right away, without even being an admin of the system!

WOW WOW I can plug an encrypted external disk into my pc and it shows up on my MS look-alike filemanager right away, without even being an admin of the system!

This linux is JUST LIKE MS-windows11!

And this is what you were after?  An open-free software system that acts and looks just like windows 10/11?

If your distro caters to morons keep expecting what it is you are getting.

If your distro doesn’t cater to morons, why keep getting what it is you are getting?

We can’t answer every philosophical question here, and we never intended, but circumstances keep drawing us back to the meaning of life.  libblockdev udisks2 didn’t change versions remained the same, but were rebuilt, why? Because the source address was changed, and also the ckecksums of the source changed, and their dependency to systemd changed, somehow.  Continue reading →

Venom Linux no systemd or elogind from scratch

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On our strict list “sysdfree strict list of distros without any part of systemd” there are complete distros that can run without systemd or elogind (Obarun, joborun, antiX), and by complete we mean thousands of packages to choose from, and are some minimal base systems that you will have to build yourself software that will run on those bases.  Kiss, chimera, sabotage, mere, can all boot and can all build software.   (links to Venom to be found in the end of the document)

Venom is one that is becoming more and more gray, it has a base, it can boot with sysvinit scripts or with runit-init as pid1, you can have a desktop, browser, office type of apps, icons, fonts, themes, menus, all functional and ready for work.  It does provide choices of what essential parts to have or not.  We will not be judgemental of the choices, but it is surprisingly growing.  It is not also a conservative base system built with stable and tested build tools of 3-4 years in age, just because it needed to work, it is pretty close to cutting edge of upstream tools.

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