Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint

On 13 Dec 2024 15:40:28 GMT, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote in
<ls32rcFprp3U1@mid.individual.net>:

So upgraded the Mac Studio to Sequoia:
 
$ uname -a
Darwin Mac 24.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0:
Fri Dec  6 18:56:34 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.5~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64
 
After the initial upgrade from Sonoma, it still had updates
to apply.  This took a while, and included the need for
another reboot -- all to update some xcode crap.
 
It's a lot easier to update Linux than Windows or MacOS.  Why
it would be such a pain for MacOS to do a simple update, I can
only guess at.
 
(I suspect it may be that MacOS doesn't have a facility
with the simplicity of Linux's ldconfig(8) for updating
shared libraries.)
 
Also:
 
_[/Users/scott/path_max]_(scott@Mac)🍏_
$ make use_pathconf
cc -g -O2 -std=c90 -Wall -Werror -pedantic    use_pathconf.c   -o use_pathconf
_[/Users/scott/path_max]_(scott@Mac)🍏_
$ ./use_pathconf
1024
 
It's still 1/4 that of Linux.
 
Although, I did run a find(1) on my fileserver for long pathnames, and
found that the longest was 359 characters...so MacOS would be fine with
that.  Windows?  Not so sure.

Went to add a static route to another segment of my network, and
couldn't find a way to do it while keeping the dhcp setup.  In order
to add a persistent route, I had to drop to the command line and
run networksetup(8) with the proper incantation.  Now I can ping
my file server.

Next, I tried to add a time machine backup destination, but there's
no way to add one by IP address from the gui.  Was going to try
to set one up with tmutil(8), but realized I should instead set
up an MDNS reflector on the router.  After that, the Mac Studio saw
the file server in the time machine tool, and everything followed from
that.

The file server runs Linux:

Linux DT 3.10.108 #42962 SMP Mon Aug 19 15:14:28 CST 2024
armv7l GNU/Linux synology_alpine_ds2015xs

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