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Subject: Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:31:16 -0500
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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:
>>
>> $ 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.

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:
>>
>> _[/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.

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