I run just lighttpd these days; used to run httpd before they decided the configuration must become even more complicated. I don't have any issues with lighttpd (admittedly only few people use it; most seem to now use nginx).
Update was also hit and miss on user's desktop machines, for a while ubuntu had a nasty habit of installing new kernel upgrades... without removing old ones, which eventually made boot run out of space and poor user usually had to give it to helpdesk to fix.
Tho tbh most of the problems in any distro with packages is "an user installed 3rd party repo that don't have well structured packages and it got messy".
Not Linux, not Debian, Ubuntu.
Debian (provided you don't just dump a bunch of 3rd party repos) just upgrades cleanly, we have hundreds of servers that just run unattended-upgrade and get upgraded to new Debian version every 2 years.
The few Ubuntus we had had more problems.
...maybe I wouldn't trust any software choices this person does.
And the point of "why waste time for captcha for static file" still stands, it's not like there is comment section for bots to abuse
You mistake dismiss with "do opposite"
Unfortunately I also kind of lost faith in the BSD variants. There are a few minor things such as PC-BSD suddenly vanishing, or years before NetBSD on their mailing list admitting that Linux outperformed their "runs on any toaster and other gimmick" strategy. But one of the key issues I had was this:
I installed it (FreeBSD) on my second computer. I went out of my apartment and returned hours later. Well, the FreeBSD machine was no longer running; my linux machine on the other hand is running non-stop for months, literally. This may be a fluke, perhaps the computer had a problem - I am not saying this is really what the BSDs are all about, as I also had them installed before. But then I also asked myself "why would I want to bother with the BSDs, if Linux simply runs better?". And I haven't found a good, convincing answer to that for me to rationalise why I'd still be using the BSDs. Note: I also use Linux in a non-standard way, e. g. versioned AppDirs, but essentially Linux is simply more flexible than the BSDs (that is my opinion) and there are more users too. There will be always some BSD users, but to me they are like a dying breed. They would need to market themselves as a "runs outside the nerd bubble as well"; even Linux is still stuck in its own nerd bubble. You have to break out of it if you want to really dominate (Linux semi-does it indirectly, e. g. we can count many smartphones as Linux-driven, but I am still using a desktop computer system here, so to me this is what really counts, even if the total number is less than the smartphone users numbers).
Had BSD not been busy with AT&T lawsuit, all major UNIXes would probably still be around, consuming whatever was produced out of BSD like the networking code and OS IPC improvements over AT&T UNIX.
Instead sponsoring Linux kernel became the plan B, as means to reduce their UNIX development costs.
> Commercial use began when Dell and IBM, followed by Hewlett-Packard, started offering Linux support to escape Microsoft's monopoly in the desktop operating system market
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
Ironically the major contributor to many GNU/Linux critical components, Red-Hat, is now an IBM subsiduary, recouping that investment beyond doing only Aix.
It is no accident that all FOSS OSes that came after Linux, none of them has adopted GPL, as big corporations would rather not be obliged by it.
After all, the GPL forces to contribute back only if you modify and distribute a modified version of the software (the AGPL modified this point, to account for cloud services). A corporation that isn't modifying GPL'd code or isn't redistributing the modified binaries, doesn't incur any additional burden for using a software distributed under the GPL.
I'd love it if Gentoo/BSD were a thing once again, I like the BSD concepts but there's nothing like Portage on BSD so far - afaik pkgsrc is nowhere close to it.
Now that I think of it, when I switched from DOS to Linux it was already because I found manpages amazing. Maybe I've just a soft spot for documentation.
Seccomp was never actually usable: https://blog.habets.se/2022/03/seccomp-unsafe-at-any-speed.h...
It's barely usable by itself but I don't think it's an inherent problem of seccomp-bpf, rather the lack of libc support. Surely the task of "determine which syscalls are used for X" belongs in the software that decides which syscalls to use for X.
In fact, Cosmopolitan libc implements pledge on Linux on top of seccomp-bpf: https://justine.lol/pledge/
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