Which default programs don't you use.

Alain De Vos

Alain De Vos

Maybe there are some default programs you don't use. It's nice to know.
I don' use syslogd , i use syslog-ng.
I don't use cron , i use fcron.
I don't use sendmail, i use opensmtpd.
Which are yours ?
 
cracauer@ said:
Emacs instead of vi :)

tftpd-hpa (because LILO PXE wants to seek).
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Same here, for fast file editing i use mg but anything more serious and i am in gnu's emacs. OpenBSD has mg in base install, so is it possible maybe for FreeBSD to include such a micro program in its base in the future?
 
Having something better ;) than nvi installed by default could be handy, but the implication is that the already large base system will expand in size even more.
 
Alain De Vos said:
On Linux i need initramfs for the modules
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I have everything I need for booting built into the kernel, just like FreeBSD does. Once booted I load modules from /lib/modules/.

I just don't trust those magic initrd making processes to do the right thing after inspecting the "current" system. I don't want to be cut off when I boot the installation on different hardware.
 
cracauer@ said:
I have everything I need for booting built into the kernel, just like FreeBSD does. Once booted I load modules from /lib/modules/.

I just don't trust those magic initrd making processes to do the right thing after inspecting the "current" system. I don't want to be cut off when I boot the installation on different hardware.
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Back in the day when I used Linux, I had a custom initrd that loaded a squashfs root image off a USB thumbdrive into memory so the drive could be removed. Once loaded, it was blazingly fast. I had userspace tools to reattach the thumbdrive and persist any changes I wanted so that the next boot would reflect those changes. Now, I rely on ZFS ARC to make the system fast (apples and oranges).

I still haven't bitten the bullet on NVMe or SSD (my first stab at an SSD ended many years ago when the drive died prematurely despite limited use).
 
Where is it possible:
bash instead of sh / csh...
gvim instead of vi / vim
exctags instead of ctags
gmake instead of make
CDE instead of Gnome ( I don't use others)
 
zsh instead os sh | csh | tcsh
nano & emacs instead of ed | vi
beadm instead of bectl
xfce instead of tty (I wish that plasma would run on my T430, but it doesn't)
terminator instead of xfce4-terminal

tOsYZYny said:
my first stab at an SSD ended many years ago when the drive died prematurely despite limited use
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Do you know why this happened?
 
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