I had stumbled upon FRR in the past but had forgotten about it. Thanks for that!
Wanna write something up on it? I did but i barely touched on it
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Wonāt be able to soon, but youāre right, I should.
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The more obscure parts of DNS need some light shed on them by those of us who explore that deep dark abyss lol
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Inb4 you join me in the void one day
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Whenever I have time to mess with Linux Desktop again, Iāll probably drop Arch for Void unless I hit a blocker (donāt expect to though).
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I hit some blockers along the way. Xorg is a bitch but got through it
Wait, why are you using Xorg? The only reason I can think of is if youād need vnc / freerdp.
Xfce does not support wayland and I have no intent of switching DEs
Also matlab and cadence do not support wayland yet
I hate to say it, but itās been quite a while since Iāve run into something that I couldnāt do pretty easily on my macbook. Iāve had a Kaby Lake Thinkpad on my desk for months with the idea of using it as a Linux desktop but in that time, I have not needed it once.
The only Linux-specific workloads Iāve needed to run on desktop this year were all AI-related and I ran them in WSL2 on my gaming pcā¦ probably could have run them natively in Windows if I knew how to use Windows.
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I mean way I see it BSD is as good as Linux in my book and osx is still bsd
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Also homebrew is somewhere between a distoās repository and the AUR. It has good coverage, at least for the things I need.
I run into occasional snags, for instance, they dropped FAT16 support (or as far as I can tell they did), so thereās an odd situation every now and then when I hit a wall. Pretty rare though.
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Any opinions on how to abbreviate āclusterā or if it even needs abbreviation?
Leaning towards āclustā
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CL
Lol
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Nix package manager can run on macs too, in case you need linux software on mac.
Clu or clstr, because cl can sometimes mean client.
Not evangelizing here, use whatever you are familiar with, but void is also a good server distro and it has a lot of server packages (although some are unmaintained, at some point zabbix was still at version 4 something, when the latest was v6, now it is at 6.2.2 in the repos). The void devs have proven void to be a really rock solid distro for servers with their infrastructure running all on void and I had grafana+prometheus (from the repos!) running on Void for a while and hasnāt even flinched back when I was using it.
One very good server tool, that I think all servers should have is xcheckrestart (I think itās part of xtools on void). It checks what programs have been updated and what programs require a restart to apply the updates. Here is an output from it from my desktop.
$ doas xcheckrestart
12696 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird (thunderbird)
12951 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird (thunderbird)
13061 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird (thunderbird)
1481 /usr/bin/rpc.statd (deleted) (nfs-utils)
16723 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
22243 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
29936 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
29998 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
6036 /usr/bin/pipewire (pipewire)
6040 /usr/bin/wireplumber (wireplumber)
6936 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7218 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7246 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7283 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7288 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7306 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7317 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7324 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7342 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
7571 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
8077 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
8121 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
8123 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
9761 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
9819 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox (firefox)
I can just close and reopen programs like FF and TB, kill and restart the dbus-run-session pipewire process and for rpc, just restart the runit service rpcbind. How can other systems not have something like this? Sure, FF generally complains when it needs to be closed to be used again and things like Gitlab will just refuse to work until you reload the service with gitlab-ctl after every update, but having a built-in OS tool that tells you what needs restarting is a must-have. Iād be grateful to get to know other tools on other systems (I want to run Debian for OpenNebula, I think nixOS just restarts everything with a nixos-rebuild switch without asking, but I never actually checked, I should look into that).
xcheckrestart has allowed me to skip reboots quite often, just restart a service and voila! But it wonāt show you when kernel updates are applied, you need to check for a new boot entry and uname to see if you need a reboot if you donāt check what things get updated when doing system updates.
What I also like about void, compared to arch is that old kernels donāt automatically get poofed out of the system. You have vkpurge to check for older kernels and do a cleanup whenever you feel your system is stable.
I also like how Void splits the kernel packages.
xbps-query -Rs linux
[*] linux-6.3_1 Linux kernel meta package
[*] linux-base-2023.05.29_1 Linux kernel base dependencies
[*] linux-headers-6.3_1 Linux kernel headers meta package
[-] linux-lts-5.15_1 Linux LTS (Long Term Support) kernel meta package
[-] linux-lts-headers-5.15_1 Linux longterm support kernel headers meta package
[-] linux-mainline-6.5_1 Linux latest mainline kernel meta package (for experts only)
[-] linux-mainline-headers-6.5_1 Linux latest mainline kernel headers meta package
[-] linux-tools-5.10.4_11 Linux kernel tools meta-pkg
[-] linux-vt-setcolors-1.0.0_1 Utility tool to set the linux VT default color palette
[-] linux-wifi-hotspot-4.5.0_1 Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator
[-] linux4.14-4.14.295_2 Linux kernel and modules (4.14 series)
[-] linux4.14-headers-4.14.295_2 Linux kernel and modules (4.14 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux4.19-4.19.294_1 Linux kernel and modules (4.19 series)
[-] linux4.19-headers-4.19.294_1 Linux kernel and modules (4.19 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux4.4-4.4.261_1 Linux kernel and modules (4.4 series)
[-] linux4.4-headers-4.4.261_1 Linux kernel and modules (4.4 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux4.9-4.9.330_1 Linux kernel and modules (4.9 series)
[-] linux4.9-headers-4.9.330_1 Linux kernel and modules (4.9 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.10-5.10.194_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.10 series)
[-] linux5.10-headers-5.10.194_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.10 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.11-5.11.22_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.11 series)
[-] linux5.11-headers-5.11.22_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.11 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.12-5.12.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.12 series)
[-] linux5.12-headers-5.12.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.12 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.13-5.13.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.13 series)
[-] linux5.13-headers-5.13.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.13 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.14-5.14.21_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.14 series)
[-] linux5.14-headers-5.14.21_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.14 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.15-5.15.131_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.15 series)
[-] linux5.15-headers-5.15.131_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.15 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.16-5.16.20_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.16 series)
[-] linux5.16-headers-5.16.20_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.16 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.18-5.18.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.18 series)
[-] linux5.18-headers-5.18.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.18 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.19-5.19.17_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.19 series)
[-] linux5.19-headers-5.19.17_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.19 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.4-5.4.256_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.4 series)
[-] linux5.4-headers-5.4.256_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.4 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.5-5.5.18_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.5 series)
[-] linux5.5-headers-5.5.18_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.5 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.6-5.6.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.6 series)
[-] linux5.6-headers-5.6.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.6 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.7-5.7.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.7 series)
[-] linux5.7-headers-5.7.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.7 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.8-5.8.18_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.8 series)
[-] linux5.8-headers-5.8.18_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.8 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux5.9-5.9.16_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.9 series)
[-] linux5.9-headers-5.9.16_1 Linux kernel and modules (5.9 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux6.0-6.0.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.0 series)
[-] linux6.0-headers-6.0.19_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.0 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux6.1-6.1.51_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.1 series)
[-] linux6.1-headers-6.1.51_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.1 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux6.2-6.2.15_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.2 series)
[-] linux6.2-headers-6.2.15_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.2 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[*] linux6.3-6.3.13_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.3 series)
[*] linux6.3-headers-6.3.13_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.3 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux6.4-6.4.16_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.4 series)
[-] linux6.4-headers-6.4.16_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.4 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
[-] linux6.5-6.5.3_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.5 series)
[-] linux6.5-headers-6.5.3_1 Linux kernel and modules (6.5 series) - source headers for 3rd party modules
You can install linux-lts, linux-mainline, or just linux (and linux-lts-headers / linux-mainline-headers / linux-headers if you need dkms, like zfs module) and your system will always be up to date with whatever comes next (although not the latest and greatest of all, the packages I would say are debian rock-solid stable level). Or if you know your hardware has issues with linux 6+, just install linux5.15 manually and remove other linux metapackage and the higher kernel versions. You have a lot of control over your system.
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Wow, so if you sign up for an account at fs.com, they log what items you look at, then scrape your website and send you a tailored marketing email.
If they offered a 10Gbase-T SONiC switch, Iād actually be interested, but sadly, they do not.
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I had to use one of those privacy policy generators and send it to their contact inbox to stop fs.com from sending those.
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Funny, I was looking for a fs.com S3200-8MG4S. They also used to send us marketing emails, although a lot of time passed since the it account was created, so it was more like āhey, we got this pretty cheap, wanna try it out?ā
The mikrotik CRS310-8G+2S+IN seems similar (2 less sfp+ ports), but half the price.
Anyway, thatās almost creepy levels of stalking. I remember when I was looking at TV online and then immediately get ads for TVs, I hated every second of that and installed an ad-blocker and clicker (ad nauseam).
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Iām running gigabit and sfp+ Mikrotik kit now and itās fine but looking ahead to upgrading that to 10Gbase-t and SFP28, I want to get some datacenter tier hardware, and of course open source, so that means SONiC. Sometime next year Iāll begin actively looking for Dell S5248F-ON and S4148T-ON switches. Per @wendellās advice, I think my switch needs are modest enough that I shouldnāt run into weirdness (VLAN, ACL, MLAG and RSTP should be pretty much it). As a person who generally hates switches, my approach is the have them do as little as possible.
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