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  • The canonical method was with a kickstart, and if it looks like too complex, remember you should have one stashed in /root already that you just need to mod.

    Normally a kickstart is a bit much, otherwise, though. I use a suite of tools but the best one I used was a simple virtual package to bring in the ot8her, drop configs in and start daemons. We did this in like 2001 to great effect.



  • There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations

    No true Scot, then?

    I’m running gitlab implementations at a few sites. I’ve not seen or heard of any performance limiter with a self-managed community edition that removes a tool the others still provide.

    and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.

    Again, this sounds FUDdy. Which ‘external solutions’ are you using that a git-push fails on? Some spaghetti of saas tendrils seems to be already a risk, but I can’t think of any other external thing that it could mess up with.


  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlInit system comparisons?
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    Dood. Boot times are useless ‘flex’ metrics more influenced by processor and disk speed than init systems. My el5 and el6 archive systems boot faster than my el7 ELS system, which itself is faster than el9; but not by enough to matter when you’re booting every week to a month. It’s never BEEN an issue.

    Compare complexity: Has your init system metastasized over the entire host and re-implemented (poorly) other core systems, so long-dependable features just simply don’t work, and everything has its own rinky-dink silly-walk to configure instead of /etc/fstab or /etc/exports, instead of staying in its lane? No? You’re good. Diversity and specialization will give you excellent results and security. Yes? You have systemd.

    There’s your comparison.















  • Have we ever considered not using really bad installer paradigms until they’re fixed? It seems like alternatives are right there, but still people are choosing the worst idea and running with it.

    I say this as someone who worked Unix and Linux security for an OS vendor – better alternatives are there.



  • I don’t use laptops.

    I have some dell optiplex and poweredge in the home-lab.

    These machines are ported through a KVM, and I’m using a desktop on proxmox where the GPU, mouse, keyboard, sound and cam are ported into the fedora VM via proxmox from there the KVM connects.

    I play WoW and zero-k, but the voice chat isn’t working in WoW.