SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet, 1 year ago

Who made Red Hat the arbiter of when xorg should end?

I mean, sure they’re a major Linux vendor but their market is servers with hardly any foothold in the desktop market. It would be more interesting to see how long Debian, Ubuntu or Arch will keep xorg alive.

SpaceCadet, 1 year ago

So little is done by others that, if Red Hat stops, Xorg is effectively done.

Source?

As far as I know the X.org foundation is an independent non-profit organization, and while Red Hat is a sponsor and they have 1 member in the board of directors (out of 8), they don’t appear to be the main contributor.

SpaceCadet, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Just use rsync -va

NO STOP!

The default quick check algorithm of rsync is not safe for this. It only checks filesize and modification time to determine if files are equal. After a b0rked copy, these are not to be trusted.

You should add the -c flag so that files are properly checksummed, unfortunately if you have slow storage on either end, this often negates the speed advantage of rsync.

For example, consider this example:

<span style="color:#323232;">mkdir source
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mkdir destination
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo "hello" > source/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo "world" > destination/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">touch -r source/file.txt destination/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rsync -avh source/ destination/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat source/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat destination/file.txt
</span>

Contrary to what you might expect, the rsync command copies nothing and the output at the end will show:

<span style="color:#323232;">hello
</span><span style="color:#323232;">world
</span>

If you change the rsync command in the example above to rsync -c -avh source/ destination/, it will work as expected.

SpaceCadet, 1 year ago

What a toxic ass message

dickriders

Oh the irony…

SpaceCadet, 1 year ago

I think there may also be a cultural angle here. Anglo-Saxon culture really places a much higher emphasis on “not causing offense”, whereas other cultures place a higher emphasis on speaking truthfully, even if harshly.

So Linus, who grew up in Finland, may have thought of his message as harsh but fair, whereas to native English speakers it comes across as incredibly rude.