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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/windows-10-22h2-end-of-support-update

I would love to see some links on this.

Any application can add whatever process management ( init ) configuration they want to. That's why it seems rediculous to have an OS that only supports one. Lets say I'm only using SysVInit for example, and then I install a 3rd party application. ( one that isn't in my distro's repo's by...

The reason I use Linux, is because it's not like Windows, and it seems seem people want to make it more like Windows. :rolleyes:

Why? All my systems have two.

I was assuming he was already able to print to a printer. If you have GUI, you can setup a printer. If you only have a command line, you will have to install cups and run lpadmin.

If it works for any of your local computers, then your ISP isn't blocking it.

Print? To a printer? What kind of files? Text? PDF? Graphics? HTML? lp filename.txt lp filename.pdf crontab 0 * * * * /usr/bin/lp /path/to/my file That will print that file every hour. If there are multiple files with multiple names, then you will have to add some logic or looping. You...

It does seem that by clicking on the link you provided above, they are trying to sell us something. :)

Exactly! I would say 99% of my user processes are controlled by systemd. But I can still add an init.d file if I really want to. No need for two separate distro installs in order to do this.

Maybe, but the sword cuts both ways. If Linux did lock down these things, then no one could ever join a Wifi-network except root. There are ways in Linux to make it a true Kiosk client application and lock down everything else. But then typically you get one application, and one application...

The "simplest" way. Run a Windows VM with something like VirtualBox. Some Windows games just do not run under Linux at all. Most Steam and Proton games are compatible. Some of the older less resource intensive games will run under Wine ( a Windows emulator ). But if you really just want...

I was just thinking, a lot of you young guys will look back one day and say things like... a 2Terrabyte VNME hard drive? Really? A Intel 12th gen i9 processor? Really? 32GB of DDR5 RAM? Really. An nVidia 4090RTX GTi? How did you guys every get by with all that ancient stuff. It may sound...

I know this thread is specifically about sysVinit and systemd. But it does expand into a larger philosophy here. There are have been a lot of changes in Linux over last 7 or 8 years. I would say more has changed in Linux in the last seven years, than the entire 23 years before that. Systemd...

From chatGPT. advantages of systemd over sysV init Systemd and SysV init are both init systems for Unix-like operating systems, responsible for initializing and managing system processes. Systemd, introduced as a replacement for SysV init, has several advantages over its predecessor. Here...