a tool that allows you to build packages for multiple systems in multiple formats (deb, rpm, nix, flatpak, snap, etc.).

Given flatpaks and snaps are toxic, the other ones - deb, rpm, pkg - can be packaged relatively easily. It’s all a separate effort with files and meta-info that doesn’t often intersect, but it’s manageable. It lends itself incredibly well to the trivial ‘automation’ that gitlab, forgejo and other major git suites provide.

Source: did this for the entirety I built and maintained a software suite for linux and unix, for like 15 years. I built some code, I packaged it. Because anything less isn’t really ISO27002.

TL;DR - the ‘tool’ is a simple script and your brain. the biggest hurdle is the unknown itself and, once you get to it, the work can be pretty straightforward.

makefile which packages as tarball, deb, rpm and appimage.

Packaging an RPM in a makefile? That’s inside-out.

Cats are part of the ritual here. Honestly I can’t imagine how the muggles enjoy any of their chores.

1. find something Lennart built. Eg. systemd
2. remove that
3. go to 1

till

\sigh

The airport near Stockholm. Private little rooms. Everyone has a loo and a sink and room to change. It’s so humane.

news tech

Not a lot of sites advertising broadcaster vans and steadycams.

Did you mean “tech news”, or maybe something with punctuation?

Ironically, from a truck driver I learned bears seem to shit an awful lot in the roadway.

Now correct the kid-pidgin to English as well. ‘ppl’ is what my nephew mumbled around his pablum.

Hospital. It’s 100m away. I’m in a long queue for surgery deemed non-essential in the post-covid no-doctors-left triage. All good.

So some guy sends you a particular emoji and gets to live rent-free in your head for an hour?

Feta, capicola, sliced black olives. Perfection.

I thought it was naive as well, but because they based it on a mayfly distro that has really great validation and reliability but it’s gone in a fortnight.

Wither Almalinix or Cloudlinux or PCLinuxOS or Mandriva? Three of them have really solid support structures and at least one of them has amazing compatibility options with libraries for services.

There are options. A few of them could be better than fedora while fedora is still owned by redhat as redhat dies from suffocation – hell, its all just fucking ancillary bull (Ansible) they sell now, as its metastatic cancer (Systemd) eats it alive.

Having seen SuSE destroy collaborators like OL, CNC and probably Turbo, I’m okay never even working with them as a customer. I intend to avoid them until death.

Wow, what a wall of text. I’m sorry but I’m sure I skimmed some parts.

Look. The bulk of the replies you’re going to get will be like “this is my favourite distro and here’s how it works for you” not “this is the best distro for your criteria.” It’s important to understand the deep level of bias you’re going to get.

But your cause is a noble one. I use a particular style of distro because it can be trusted to install well, back out well, do both safely, and allow validation at every stage. I think it’s a good candidate, and it’s already been mentioned as a really great ‘set it and forget it’ distro.

Good luck.

The only thing they offer is bare source?

I like they’ve just given up on trying to understand things like filesystem layouts and fucking systemd - which is cool - but now they own dependency hell and inconsistent installs in trade.

Nah. I’ll get a package where I can confirm the contents, check the sigs, reproduce the build and then deploy it with its dependencies in a reliable, verifiably-consistent process.

https://rhel.pkgs.org/9/epel-x86_64/tor-0.4.8.14-1.el9.x86_64.rpm.html

Sources, sigs, signed BoM. Wheeee!

• everyday - standard, conventional
• every day - daily

You in the right lane?

Here, too, the tenant gets the deposit back and any interest accrued.

It’s different in my region.

Landlords have been challenged to show when and why they withold deposits. It’s not guaranteed but when brought to the board the tenant often wins unless the landlord can present a good case.

Then again, we only rent from companies for a reason.

That one puts the ‘disco’ in ‘discount’.