On December 4, 2020 1:40:57 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >Howdy, > >I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner. >There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for >security reasons. I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed. I >guess that is the default for openrc. Someone mentioned >systemd-tmpfiles as a alternative that doesn't have the same security >problems. My question is, is this big enough a problem to switch or is >it safe enough for us to use the same we have been? It sounds like a >rather rare problem. Maybe even only during boot up. I'm not 100% >sure >what it does or anything really. I guess that's why I con't make sense >of switching or not since I'm not sure what the package does or how >serious the security problem is.
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. >Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet >service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is >over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only costs $4.00 a month >more than what I'm paying now. Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec. >Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed. Another good thing, >same >speed BOTH ways. I can upload videos just as fast as I can download >one. Yeppie!! Good for you! >My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires >me to plug in a ethernet cable. In other words, OS doesn't matter. I >suspect it does but we will see. 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. >Any thoughts on tmpfiles? What are other doing? Switching? Nothing? 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. Kusoneko.
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