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Joseph Holsten

@RL_Dane @justine This exactly. I’m giving a RHEL clone a couple weeks to see if I actually want functional steam games, otherwise I’m going back to my FreeBSD desktop.

I do wish that projects would stop ripping out BSD support though. It’s making me feel like the boundary POSIX chose for compatibility is too narrow. Sure exclude packaging, but we need service control, firewall, kernel capability APIs.

22 Aug 2024 at 21:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social
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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@josephholsten @justine

A standard firewall config file format that can be parsed/executed by various competing backends would be a fascinating compromise.

22 Aug 2024 at 22:54 | Open on fosstodon.org
Joseph Holsten

@RL_Dane @justine We had a deeply flawed firewall dsl in chef that supported multiple backends, but it was exhausting and continually unmaintained. I don’t know if the nftables backend ever got implemented. I was trying to break it apart last year.
But @mwl introduced me to NetBSD’s blocklistd a bit ago and it’s a lovely single purpose tool supporting many backends.

22 Aug 2024 at 23:05 | Open on mstdn.social
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