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  • open-build-service

    Build and distribute Linux packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way #obs

    • It is basically a solved problem for developers.

    https://build.opensuse.org/ will let you target 20+ distros with very little work. You can also run your own local instance if you want https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service

  • UnspamifyUbuntu

    Remove spam from Ubuntu

    • I now routinely install fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools.deb to remove Ubuntu "Advantage". It's an empty package that satisfies the dependencies.

    I also remove some of the crap that Ubuntu put in /etc/update-motd.d. From memory 10-help-text, 50-motd-news, 88-esm-announce, 91-contract-ua-esm-status are pointless and annoying.

    See https://github.com/Skyedra/UnspamifyUbuntu

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • snapd

    The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.

    • Oh don't get me started on that. I use Firefox on a work machine and I spent a number of hours troubleshooting why it couldn't access the Internet when I was connected on VPN.

    I suspected it had something to do with snapd, so I downloaded the .tar.gz release of Firefox and it worked. I kept investigating and figured it must have something to do with snap.firefox.firefox apparmor profile because the VPN client was symlinking the /etc/resolv.conf to /opt/.../resolv.conf

    However, updating the apparmor profile didn't help so I ultimately realized that snap has a hardcoded list of mounts that it mounts into the app container [1] and there's no way to change this.

    There are a number of reasons to hate on snapd, but this almost made me flip the table.

    [1]: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/3a88dc38ca122eba97192...

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