Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 07:14:14 +0042, yeti wrote:
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doas/opendoas
 
  I'm still in the progress to migrate from sudo to doas.

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systemd-run0 might be the New Hawtness.

No way!  I'll rip out all systemd using distributions here as soon as I
have decided what to use instead.  I had a mega fight the other day to
get NFS automounts working with it.  It would have been just some
minutes without systemd swallowing every function and doing it in a
totally different unreadable and overcomplicated way.

But the decision not to want systemd is much older.  I already partially
switched to Devuan, but then Devuan's ARM-SBC images drove me back to
Debian at least for the ARMish ones.

Now that Debian decided to drop X86, switching away from it is even more
urgent and Devuan (still a good choice on AMD64 and X86) won't be able
to compensate for that.

mawk
 
  I like "-We" and dislike GAWKisms.

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perl >> awk (any awk)

I have AWK in OpenWrt and NetBSD default installs.  Perl not.  So I
benefit more from keeping my AWK muscles intact.

netcat & ncat
 
  life savers for poking around in text based protocols.

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Why not socat?

I never looked closer at socat and meanwhile I do stuff that's too
complex for n(et)cat in C, micropython or scheme, so I have enough
alternatives without learning new socat tricks.

rsync
 
  openrsync doesn't really replace it yet.

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Never heard of openrsync ... ah, another project that exists solely for
licence-political reasons. Not to mention, BSD fragmentation strikes
again!

openrsync lacks a lot of features and was crash-happy when I tried to
use it because I assumed it'd be lighter than the original.

wget
 
  ...still is more in my muscle memory than curl.

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Not to mention having a much smaller potential attack surface.

\o/

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