Consider PCLinuxOS. ‘PLOS’ has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

• as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it’s derivation from RH is super long ago so it’s closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

• it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose’s vocal range compared to EL’s Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

• No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

• if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
• people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
• people who support last week’s version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there’s no magical fix for “10 second tom” devs here either.

That’s funny. When the maintainer of AT&T unix’s perf group was looking at a distro to clone and support, RPM>Deb was 90% why debs were excluded.

Maybe something changed dramatically since then.

I think some of my units are on the ‘lgtm’ update plan too. ;-)

I’m aware I’m jinxing myself when I suggest that I’ve had very different experience. We’re mostly WDReds though.

many offices have already been converted

The plural of anecdote isn’t data.

If it was, we’d not have smoke detectors. After all, most people have gone through 12,000 days without a house fire, so there’s no value.

work with headphones in. So I wouldn’t contribute to the collaboration that is claimed to take place.

In the new cramped environment with low visual privacy and especially no audio privacy, we all just end up with earpods in. We need the noise isolation to f’n THINK!

So the boss oozes his way over and ‘hums’ and ‘haws’ trying to get our attention before waving and doing that “hey pull out your earbuds so I can talk” gesture that resembles yokels trying to pick up someone in an elevator or on the bus and not.getting.it .

Because he doesn’t.

So that is the life of people I left at the old job, and it’s repeated a thousand times over.

Learn to also say on the phone “this environment has no audio privacy. Can you book meeting and a conference room? Thanks”, if you get too many desk calls.

… and HVAC and power with the internal wall change and sound-insulation.

I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.

You don’t; and you know this already.

I quit my union job when the new hotshot manager started mandating RTO into a newly compressed, hot, bright, loud environment; being able to actually see asses in chairs was his jam, despite the work impact. What a tool.

Found a job with another unionized IT shop, paid for it with a 3% pay cut but got an extra week of vacation (net loss: 3 days pay/yr) and a really great crew and 100% remote written into the contract. Thanks, ya tool.

We were always going to pay for their failures; this one, or the next.

You’re really close, yeah .

But because like every layer is checksummed both in delivery AND when it’s installed, so you can easily validate a delivered file, and it’s all signed with signatures you can easily check, you can at least be assured that

• what you installed is what that package delivered
• which is what the authors wanted
• and the package probably hasn’t been tampered with
• even weeks after install

the chance of problems should be reduced.

Bonus1: with a proper repo config, you can check for updates so fast. It’s like the chocolatey windows repo but more formalized and usually vendor-maintained.

Bonus2: bad upgrade? Enterprise packages on Linux (long description; trust me) can be reverse-installed over what’s there so you can back-revise or downgrade with almost no pain. It’s a good oh-no fix. At every point you can still validate that what is there should be there, according to hard signatures at every stage.

Bonus3: grabbing os version 6.1 and upgrading to 6.5 OR just installing 6.5 fresh gives the same final content - files and services - when you’re done. (almost entirely) No cruft, since package installs (because of the locking below) just install over themselves in a way Linux people just accept and windows people may freak over.

Linux bonus: Linux locks file differently; again, long description, so trust me or look it up. You can upgrade many files and services without stopping them, and then bounce a service or a host, so your patch-and-bounce process is fast, it happens after the upgrades, and is like 2 min or with systemd 3min.

Ultimately

• use packages for wayyyy easier, consistent, reliable, tested, quasi-roll-back-able updates that you can validate all the way down.
• and still that SNMP connection to check content remotely. It’s so great.

Thank you for that explanation!

I don’t think it’s Facebook’s business, nor in its best interest or ours to store those messages, either way.

Read the article again and again, and then eventually understand the meta-issue here.

Good bot

Ms Smith goes to Washington?

Have you heard of the CLOUD act?

The right destroys privacy for either their control of the poors or for religious morality police.

The left destroys privacy to root out fascism.

They are not the same[.gif].

I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.

Having said that, IT’S STILL NOT FACEBOOK’S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.

It’s a signed archive of deployable files along with meta-data. Usually a cpio archive (which is similar to a tarball) with that extra signature wrapper and meta-data (which, itself, should be a list of files and checksums).

A proper package can validate a project’s installation, either from the local database or from remote resources, at any time, which gives positive assurance that what is installed is what should be installed.

As well, proper package info is exported by SNMP to be consolidated centrally and validate what is vs what should be installed at the group level.

TL;DR? Like a tarball with tracking info, signatures, checksums, and top-to-bottom validation. If it’s a good package, anyway.