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Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint

From vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint
Date 2024-12-15 21:02 +0000
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:36:19 -0500, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
wrote in <vjnek3$l418$2@dont-email.me>:

> On 12/15/24 11:21 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>> ...
>>> This is why you don’t even need to do a reboot if it is sufficient to
>>> simply stop and start the affected services.
>> 
>> The aptiude front-end for apt might detect an issue with versions. You can then
>> examine the issue and see a list of one or more solutions; you can then pick
>> the solution you want.  And in a few days, that issue will likely be gone
>> anyway.
> 
> What some of this has prompted me to think about is how there's 
> relatively recent security folks who are suggesting to reboot one's 
> smartphone nightly, as a security measure against spyware/etc.
> 
>  From this perspective, it would seem that a hard reboot might not be a 
> bad thing for desktop PCs too.  Sure, I can see the desire for high 
> uptime on Cloud/Web/server stuff, but for a desktop?  Nah, just make it 
> part of the overnight maintenance cycle as a procedure to minimize risks 
> from malware.
> 
> 
> -hh

Reminds me of back in the early 90's at the college, when our student-access
Unix (Linux) host would reboot nightly at 3am.

The idea was to clear out any cruftiness in the kernel, as well as
restart long-running processes that might have leaked memory, or
gotten themselves into undesirable states, or what-have-you.

-- 
-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
   OS: Linux 6.12.4 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
   "If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer."

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MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-13 15:40 +0000
  Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-13 21:56 +0000
    Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2024-12-14 10:31 -0500
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-15 01:01 +0000
  Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-13 22:07 -0500
    Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-14 05:39 +0000
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-14 08:10 -0500
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 16:09 +0000
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-14 22:18 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-14 22:37 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:53 -0500
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-15 22:28 +0000
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 20:04 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-16 06:42 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-16 10:38 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-17 22:28 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 18:21 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-19 07:14 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 08:52 -0500
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-15 11:21 -0500
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2024-12-15 15:36 -0500
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-15 21:02 +0000
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-16 07:21 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-16 11:10 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2024-12-17 22:09 -0600
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-14 10:31 -0500
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-14 22:22 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:58 -0500
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 15:59 +0000
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-14 19:53 +0000
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:40 -0500
    Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-14 05:43 +0000
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-14 08:15 -0500
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 16:14 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-14 19:57 +0000
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 15:06 -0500
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-15 00:06 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 07:45 +0000
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:48 -0500
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 07:29 +0000
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-15 08:43 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 10:30 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:13 -0500
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 10:33 +0000
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-16 20:18 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 08:26 +0000
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-17 22:29 +0000
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 18:21 -0500
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 19:22 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-17 19:37 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 20:23 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 20:36 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2024-12-18 01:54 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 21:22 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 20:34 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-18 03:24 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-18 08:24 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2024-12-19 18:37 -0600
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 20:12 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2024-12-20 01:26 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-20 09:25 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-20 10:23 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-19 07:14 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 08:52 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 20:32 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-19 04:43 +0000
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-19 07:58 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 09:04 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-19 11:25 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 11:50 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 12:26 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-19 13:39 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 12:21 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2024-12-19 13:53 -0600
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 17:14 -0500
                Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 08:48 -0500
    Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-14 08:01 -0500
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 16:21 +0000
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 16:54 +0000
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:15 -0500
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-15 13:47 +0000
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 10:27 -0500
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-16 05:46 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 10:37 +0000
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-16 11:04 -0500
              Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 08:22 +0000
      Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-14 20:01 +0000
        Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:43 -0500
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-15 14:05 +0000
          Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-15 18:23 +0000
            Re: MacOS Sequoia vs. Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 14:56 -0500

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