• 15 Posts
  • 1.14K Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 18th, 2023

help-circle










  • Thanks to AUR, I haven’t manually run a autoconf build in years, but I remember them being very fiddly. Lots of “google for header file, install and retry”.

    I think maintainer burn-out somewhat contributes to the hostile approach some projects have, anything that is accepted into a project needs to be maintained and comes with a risk of being broken in the future. If the original committer isnt around, then the maintainers either have to take on that burden, or remove it.

    Its a tough cycle to break, I don’t know what the answer is.









  • Kernel shouldn’t crash, and anything running in memory will be okayish, but it definitely will get less and less stable. It won’t be possible to start new processes.

    I have a Linux install on a USB SSD with a flakey connection, if I bumped the cord the root would unmount. It was fairly resilient, but graphics would slowly start disappearing. I’m fairly sure I could cleanly reboot as long as I had a terminal open, but its been a while, so maybe I’m misremembering.

    Still, the overall system becomes pretty useless, so i guess its fair to call it a crash