Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint

On 12/13/24 4:56 PM, vallor wrote:

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:
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$ 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
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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.
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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.

Perhaps because you're DIYing it from the command line instead of using the GUI?
For the latter, system can auto-update, whereupon you just get a notification of "do it tonight, or install now?" whereupon the click will take you to a license agreement to click and off it goes.
Of course, one will need to remember to not have open/unsaved files which will automatically prevent data loss by pausing any reboots if/when merited.

(I suspect it may be that MacOS doesn't have a facility
with the simplicity of Linux's ldconfig(8) for updating
shared libraries.)

Of course, when stuff gets updated in the background overnight, why should it bother one if an update takes an extra 15 minutes?

Also:
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_[/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
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It's still 1/4 that of Linux.
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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.

Sounds odd; I can assign static IPs on my router to individual devices as I want.  Of course, that's different from what comes next:

Next, I tried to add a time machine backup destination, but there's
no way to add one by IP address from the gui. 

Sure, because the GUI is the mainstream solution, and it leverages a 20 year old zeroconf technology (eg. Bonjour).  That facilitates using DHCP instead of needing to plug in Static IP assignments.  Of course, you're free to do things the old fashioned & harder way if you so desire.

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.

Sounds like some subdomain/VPN isolations were doing what they were supposed to do, so adding the MDNS reflector was to circumvent?

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

IIRC, same.
-hh