On 01/11/2015 08:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 01/11/2015 09:38 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Sun, January 11, 2015 8:29 pm, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 01/11/2015 09:24 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Sun, January 11, 2015 7:29 pm, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2015-01-12, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
PS I guess I just mention it. I'm quite happy about CentOS (or RedHat if I look back). One day I realized how happy I am that I chose RedHat way back, - that was when all Debian (and its clones like Ubuntu,...) admins were fighting with the consequences of this: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 . If I had Debian machine I would not only regenerate all key pairs, certs, etc. I would question sanity of that box then, and will not be certain what confidential stuff could have been stolen from it... I realized then that that level big flop never happened to RedHat. I couldn't even point to something that would constitute big flop RedHat of then. One only criticizes something while one cares about it ;-)
Heartbleed was pretty scary, no? I'd consider that at least as bad as the predictable number generator issue.
Well, heratbleed and shellshock were pretty much global: all systems (not only Linuxes, not to say particular Linux distributions - my FreeBSD boxes were affected too) using openssl or bash were affected... Same bad, yet these were not flops of particular distribution, so whichever system you decided to stick with , you had these. Not certain about you, but this kind of makes difference for me. When I say I'm happy about [me choosing way back] RedHat heartbleed, no heartbleed, no difference.
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I guess everyone will have an opinion of systemd whether it be good or bad. The only resolution is to either use a distro that has systemd on it, use a distro that DOESN'T have systemd on it...or build your OWN distro and don't include systemd! I guess when it all boils down to it, there's STILL choice.....even when it doesn't seem like there is!
I wouldn't quite agree with you about someone building one's own Linux distro without systemd. You see, systemd _IS_ in the mainstrem Linux kernel which you imminently have to use. Having distro with kernel to that level not mainstream, so systemd related stuff is stripped off it is quite a task. Less that writing one's own kernel and building system based on it, still...
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I am sorry...you're right. I was basing that statement on the devs who forked Debian to make Devuan. I assumed that they are building a version of the linux kernel with no systemd in it. (Maybe I'm wrong?....will have to check out a few articles and find out what's really going on!) My apologies...once again....
No, you are correct. They would just have to figure out how to do it on their own in a way that works.
The bottom line is that every bit of the code that is used for CentOS is released to everyone. One needs to either use what is compiled or be smart enough to take the source code and make it do what they want.
That can be done .. but it is much easier to bitch about what someone else is doing that actually do something themselves .. so what you will see is a bunch whinning all over the Internet and people using whatever is released .. because the whinners are too lazy to actually work on an open source project.