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On December 4, 2020 1:40:57 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Howdy, |
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>I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner. |
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>There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for |
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>security reasons. I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed. I |
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>guess that is the default for openrc. Someone mentioned |
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>systemd-tmpfiles as a alternative that doesn't have the same security |
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>problems. My question is, is this big enough a problem to switch or is |
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>it safe enough for us to use the same we have been? It sounds like a |
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>rather rare problem. Maybe even only during boot up. I'm not 100% |
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>sure |
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>what it does or anything really. I guess that's why I con't make sense |
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>of switching or not since I'm not sure what the package does or how |
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>serious the security problem is. |
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This is the first I've heard of this but I'm definitely not switching to systemd-anything, even if that's the only alternative. |
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>Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet |
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>service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is |
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>over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only costs $4.00 a month |
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>more than what I'm paying now. Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec. |
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>Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed. Another good thing, |
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>same |
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>speed BOTH ways. I can upload videos just as fast as I can download |
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>one. Yeppie!! |
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Good for you! |
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>My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires |
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>me to plug in a ethernet cable. In other words, OS doesn't matter. I |
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>suspect it does but we will see. |
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Highly doubt OS matters at all for ISPs. Internet service is standardized you could say, at least at the end points where a device connects to a home network or to the ISP, so there's no reason why a Linux-based OS wouldn't be able to connect. |
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>Any thoughts on tmpfiles? What are other doing? Switching? Nothing? |
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Waiting for more info + whether a fix will come and if not what the alternatives are, and if the only alternative is systemd then I'll wait still for something that isn't systemd. |
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Kusoneko. |