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  • My linux experience:

    1993 - Hey, there’s a new Unix-like thing for the PC. You can check it out down at the university computer club.

    1994 - Wow, I finally managed to get X running

    1996 - It was somewhat normal for more nerdy software developers to run linux full-time on their desktop at work.

    1998 - Linux was taking over servers to the point where you rarely saw Solaris, HP-UX, AIX around any more.

    2002 - Everyone agreed that linux was pretty much ready to take over the desktop as well.





  • I don’t know what fd does, but at a guess maybe what you’re missing is that tar includes all the files in directories you give it? So if you exclude ‘foo/bar’ but include ‘foo’ then foo/bar will be in your tar file.

    What I do is basically tar cf `ls ~ | grep -v $files_to_exclude` but if you want to exclude something that isn’t a top-level directory you’d need to get slightly more fancy.








  • kbal@fedia.iotoLinux@lemmy.mlSSH as a sudo replacement
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    10 days ago

    It has some advantages. It can be configured with simple text files and normal filesystem permissions. The sshd code is mature and has a proven record of good security. It doesn’t add yet another thing to systemd that has no business being part of systemd.