there is just something about FLOSS updates
When I just see my TV taking Linux updates it makes me feel so cozy. For context sake I have a veroV running osmc.
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When I just see my TV taking Linux updates it makes me feel so cozy. For context sake I have a veroV running osmc.
Needs more scrolling wall of text for my liking. ;)
Yeah, bar progress is sus
Pathetic
I prefer to see changes in RAM and CPU registers in hexadecimal or binary output. 🤓
What am I seeing here exactly?
Its osmc updating on the veroV
Assuming this output is indeed NOT from a HDMI or other external display input. This seems to be a some kind of Whiptail UI on the command line, it's showing an update of systemd package unpacking (after the package is downloaded) on ARM platform. TV seems to be of the brand Element, never heard about it TBH. Systemd is used today by many Linux distros as a replacement of the traditional init-scripts. No other information is present in either the screenshot or the description.
The "wait for the bar filling up" should be a documented addiction in WHO standards. 😅
FLOSS? FLee and Open Source?
I believe it stands for Free/Libre Open Source Software. I think the idea is to explicitly indicate both free as in beer and free as in speech. However, to me it just sounds like throwing in a romance term for the sake of it. But maybe I'm just ill versed on the whole free/libre divide?
English has one word for libre and gratis. Some people add the "libre" to make it explicit.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll always call it FLOSS from now on.
There's lots of software out there that is available to use without payment, but is still license restricted in such a way that you are not permitted to redistribute, modify, use for commercial purposes, etc. To many, these rights are the far more important facet of "free" software, above what it costs.
But since the English language has the same word for all of these concepts, we have all these yucks running around with zero-cost but right-restricted software wearing the "FOSS" badge thinking they're part of the club. So some people add "Libre" to the acronym to explicitly disambiguate.
As someone else said its free libre open source software. Not my term I just use it because it tends to piss off the least amount of people.
I've read it as Free-Licenced Open Source Software before.
Which doesn't clarify much IMO but it turns the abbreviation into a word!
At that point, just abbreviate it LOSS; Libre Open Source Software.
Free/Libre is a bit redundant, isn't it.
Ew I don't want my TV running systemd
I have actually seen some people with this kind of opinion regarding systemd, but I still do not get the hate about it.
Can you elaborate what is so terrible about systemd?
EDIT: typos
Ah no, please don't start another thread like this. We've had our experiences, that's it.
It may have been a thing discussed ad nauseum on certain threads. I just wanted to understand if there are facts that make systemd bad in general
Well, my experience was
All in all, it works very contrary to my experience that layers upon layers leads to unmanageable complexity and inefficinecy and it's all implemented in a poor way, functionally (some will likely disagree to this).
Thanks for the response. Right now I do not have enough knowledge to judge for myself if systemd is effectively great or not. Once I have the time I will check closer kernel architecture (theoretical wise), then in how the Linux kernel is effectively organized and only after that understand the theory behind systemd. I've seen several threads where 2 very different camps exists, but I was not entirely sure of the information I was getting.
Cannot say I will get around this, but for sure peeks my curiosity
The unix philosophy is that a piece of software should do one thing, and do it well. Systemd does a dozen things, all of them poorly. It's an especially poor choice for an embedded or appliance system.
Systemd is not a singular thing, it's a collection of a lot of things.
Yes, that's the problem.
I don't see the problem but I was just saying that it doesn't break the unix philosophy as such. Not that unix philosophy is much of a thing anymore.
Linux is not a singular thing, it's a collection of a lot of things.
Linux is a kernel. The kernel modules, services, userland, etc. are all modular and can be used independently. Not so with systemd (at least how it's implemented in most distros).
I'm sure there's several modules in the Linux kernel that are necessary to function, and you're also aware that when people broadly refer to Linux, they don't mean the kernel specifically lol
Xbian uses upstart
Libreelec is systemd-free ☺️
What do they use instead?
I was wrong :(
That moment you realize you are fetishizing something that was a carbon copy of a Windows mechanism originally designed by people at Microsoft/Apple.I stand corrected. Thank you catloaf and lordnikon
I don't normally engage with comments like these but you do realize Unix predates windows by 10 years. So much so that windows used the bsd net code is some of its network stack up till windows 8
Some NT net utilities even had BSD info in their binaries.
Your point being?
Updating is a windows mechanism now?
Which part? Package installation (not windows), TUI graphics (IBM PC, predating Windows), or dialog/whiptail dialogs (1994, based on the IBM PC line drawing)?
The difference is user consent