pointsofdata posted:

i would consider using fedora for my linux needs if it wasn't called fedora

pseudorandom name posted:

why would you put the encryption in the drive, that's idiotic

Malcolm XML posted:

osx

BobHoward posted:

no. they have an aes-xts fde layer in their os which works on any block device ever made (not just ssds), doesn't depend on firmware written by the storage industry to not have security flaws, and has a number of other advantages such as being architected to allow your regular user password to unlock the drive, allow multiple user accounts' passwords to unlock the drive, allow them to offer an optional service where an extra unlock key is generated and stored with apple for disaster recovery if you forget your password, and more. (the disaster recovery feature is for users who are interested in encrypting to protect their laptop from petty theft rather than obvs)

their fde uses the aes-ni acceleration block integrated into all modern intel cpus. it can keep up with the fastest ssds apple is shipping without chewing much cpu time

literally the only downside is that it doesn't push the encryption out to the disk to satisfy spergs

actually the real only downside is that sandforce controllers want to be able to compress data to hit their max performance and lol if u think the drive can compress aes encrypted data. but also lol if u think apple sources very many ssds with a sandforce controller

Soricidus posted:

if you want a linux that's the same as it was last time you installed a linux, try debian or slackware

Mr Dog posted:

buttery smooth

eschaton posted:

Palace of Hate posted:

loosethos/sparrow os/temple os sure has a strange version naming convention
also i think this man is ill

Broken Machine posted:

I don't mean to single you out here but it's considered bad form to phrase it like that; it'd be more appropriate to say he has schizophrenia. Otherwise it sounds like that's all he is as a person.

Suspicious Dish posted:

Be nice. He's come a long way since his first wallpaper.

LWN posted:

When asked about this problem, XFS maintainer Dave Chinner quickly wondered why the memory-management code was resorting to the OOM killer rather than just failing the problematic memory allocation. The XFS code, he said, is nicely prepared to deal with an allocation failure; to him, using that code seems better than killing random processes and locking up the system as a whole. That is when memory management maintainer Michal Hocko dropped a bomb by saying:

quote:

Well, it has been an unwritten rule that GFP_KERNEL allocations for low-order (<=PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) never fail. This is a long ago decision which would be tricky to fix now without silently breaking a lot of code. Sad...

The resulting explosion could be heard in Dave's incredulous reply:

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We have *always* been told memory allocations are not guaranteed to succeed, ever, unless __GFP_NOFAIL is set, but that's deprecated and nobody is allowed to use it any more.

Lots of code has dependencies on memory allocation making progress or failing for the system to work in low memory situations. The page cache is one of them, which means all filesystems have that dependency. We don't explicitly ask memory allocations to fail, we *expect* the memory allocation failures will occur in low memory conditions. We've been designing and writing code with this in mind for the past 15 years.

Smythe posted:

xubuntu is a freakin POS

ahmeni posted:

Athas posted:

I can report Debian on the ThinkPad X250 as a very needs suiting laptop for hacking. I only had to apply one kernel patch and compile and install one Xorg video driver from Git.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

if you want to be completely certain, lenovo has a "certified for linux" program. the x250 isn't on their matrix yet, but the x1 carbon is

i assume the x250 will get added once an rhel or ubuntu release includes the needed graphics drivers rather than getting them from git or something

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

cmon can i get a "rhel yeah!!" in here??

ahmeni posted:

loving use anaconda you fucker

quote:

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams mentions an extremely dull planet, inhabited by a bunch of depressed humans and a certain breed of animals with sharp teeth which communicate with the humans by biting them very hard in the thighs. This is strikingly similar to UNIX,

ratbert90 posted:

Holy lol initramfs.c is loving horrible in the kernel.

I'm going to just spend a day organizng it and then add xattr support to it.

Edit: no seriously how the gently caress did this poo poo heap make it into mainline?

Global vars thrown about the place, they have enums pointing to a list of pointers that dictate what function is next to run, various structs scattered about, poo poo variable names, bad code flow, etc etc.

Jesus Christ this is bad. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DEPEND ON THIS PISS POOR CODE! Time to fix this poo poo heap!

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Soricidus posted:

mac or windows with fedora under vmware

spankmeister posted:

Putting osx in case sensitive mode is really bad their implementation sucks