Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!!

c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/18/26 19:02, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:30:03 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2026-08-18, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:25:46 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually, given the current environ, heading into the BSD
>>>>>> universe. If I want bullshit I'd buy Winders .....
>>>>>
>>>>> That will be a short trip. Every Linux distro you've touched
>>>>> pissed you off for one reason or the other. There aren't that many
>>>>> BSD flavors.
>> 
>> Not only that, but the BSD variants are incompatible with each other.
>> Not necessarily in glaringly obvious ways, but in subtle ones like
>> differences in filesystem implementation. To the point where if you
>> tried to mount a volume created with one variant on another, you could
>> be setting yourself up for filesystem corruption and data loss, and
>> basically much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
>> 
>> Long story short, “distro-hopping” is a thing in the Linux world,
>> don’t try it in the BSD world.
> 
>   I tend to agree. However, at least using somewhat
>   higher-level langs, the file-system issues kind
>   of fade a bit.

The filesystem issue mentioned has **nothing** to do with higher level 
languages.  The point made (which you obviously missed, as usual) is if 
you start by installing OpenBSD, and format your disk with the OpenBSD 
FFS.  And then decide, hmm, I'm going to give FreeBSD a try now, and 
just install FreeBSD, but *do not reformat* the disk using FreeBSD's 
variant of FFS, it will *appear* to work, but subtle issues will arise 
that end up making a big mess as they grow.

Unlike with Linux where Ubuntu uses ext4 and Redhat uses exactly the 
same ext4 and Mint uses exactly the same ext4, so you can jump from one 
to the other without having to reformat your ext4 filesystems as part 
of the jumps.