When I just see my TV taking Linux updates it makes me feel so cozy. For context sake I have a veroV running osmc.

    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      111·
      2 days ago

      Assuming this output is indeed NOT from a HDMI or other external display input. This seems to be a some kind of Whiptail UI on the command line, it’s showing an update of systemd package unpacking (after the package is downloaded) on ARM platform. TV seems to be of the brand Element, never heard about it TBH. Systemd is used today by many Linux distros as a replacement of the traditional init-scripts. No other information is present in either the screenshot or the description.

    • Lambda@lemmy.ca
      17·
      2 days ago

      I believe it stands for Free/Libre Open Source Software. I think the idea is to explicitly indicate both free as in beer and free as in speech. However, to me it just sounds like throwing in a romance term for the sake of it. But maybe I’m just ill versed on the whole free/libre divide?

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        English has one word for libre and gratis. Some people add the “libre” to make it explicit.

      • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        There’s lots of software out there that is available to use without payment, but is still license restricted in such a way that you are not permitted to redistribute, modify, use for commercial purposes, etc. To many, these rights are the far more important facet of “free” software, above what it costs.

        But since the English language has the same word for all of these concepts, we have all these yucks running around with zero-cost but right-restricted software wearing the “FOSS” badge thinking they’re part of the club. So some people add “Libre” to the acronym to explicitly disambiguate.

    • drascus@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      As someone else said its free libre open source software. Not my term I just use it because it tends to piss off the least amount of people.

      • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I’ve read it as Free-Licenced Open Source Software before.
        Which doesn’t clarify much IMO but it turns the abbreviation into a word!

        At that point, just abbreviate it LOSS; Libre Open Source Software.
        Free/Libre is a bit redundant, isn’t it.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
    1149·
    2 days ago

    That moment you realize you are fetishizing something that was a carbon copy of a Windows mechanism originally designed by people at Microsoft/Apple.

    I stand corrected. Thank you catloaf and lordnikon

    • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world
      114·
      2 days ago

      I have actually seen some people with this kind of opinion regarding systemd, but I still do not get the hate about it.

      Can you elaborate what is so terrible about systemd?

      EDIT: typos

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
        173·
        2 days ago

        Ah no, please don’t start another thread like this. We’ve had our experiences, that’s it.

        • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 days ago

          It may have been a thing discussed ad nauseum on certain threads. I just wanted to understand if there are facts that make systemd bad in general

          • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
            41·
            2 days ago

            Well, my experience was

            1. why a service misbehaved, can’t get smart from that log dump
            2. configuring DNS, got annoyed that it was yet again something Systemd does itself and in a poor mans way, despite there being tools and standards for tens of years.
            3. Then found out about their security track record and that it all runs as PID 1 (more power than even root)

            All in all, it works very contrary to my experience that layers upon layers leads to unmanageable complexity and inefficinecy and it’s all implemented in a poor way, functionally (some will likely disagree to this).

            • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 days ago

              Thanks for the response. Right now I do not have enough knowledge to judge for myself if systemd is effectively great or not. Once I have the time I will check closer kernel architecture (theoretical wise), then in how the Linux kernel is effectively organized and only after that understand the theory behind systemd. I’ve seen several threads where 2 very different camps exists, but I was not entirely sure of the information I was getting.

              Cannot say I will get around this, but for sure peeks my curiosity

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        169·
        2 days ago

        The unix philosophy is that a piece of software should do one thing, and do it well. Systemd does a dozen things, all of them poorly. It’s an especially poor choice for an embedded or appliance system.

            • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 day ago

              I don’t see the problem but I was just saying that it doesn’t break the unix philosophy as such. Not that unix philosophy is much of a thing anymore.

              • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                Linux is a kernel. The kernel modules, services, userland, etc. are all modular and can be used independently. Not so with systemd (at least how it’s implemented in most distros).