Portage allows that to some extent - you can make it install thr latest of everything. Depending on the ebuild, a lot of that will be straight from git. Master branch, not some random working one, mind you, but still.

Yes. In general - it’s called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.

I’m a living proof you’re the opposite of right 😁

Is this at a webserver level?

I’ve only ever been told that perl is a write-only language :D

Gracias!

What’s the pun I’m missing here?

It’s a fairly common thing when it comes to abbreviations. B2B, B2C immediately come to mind.

And, to top it off - don’t beat yourself too hard. You’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand!

Yes!

I run Gentoo.

It’s made my fundamentals stronger.

It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.

Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.

I actually think you do not, in fact, know enough. VPN does not care about layer 7. Having some proxy forcefully rewrite random domain names will immediately lead to redirect loops and will be disabled that same day because everyone will be screaming “internet no worky”.

I don’t think it works the way you think it does.

Someone has to do the maths on the best possible nutrient, water and solar energy ratios required by pumpkins. Maybe pumpkins win!

For those curious - it’s engine-x.

I think you’re missing the point of what I’m saying. Unfortunately, words are difficult enough to produce for me, I don’t have a better way to express it.

Only answering your last paragraph. You will not, ever, find a 1:1 equivalent for a few reasons, but mostly because:

• Windows quircks do not have to be accomodated in Linux distros
• Microsoft has very much encouraged massive software where everything is done in a single application, whereas in UNIX world the philosophy is to do one thing and do it well.
• Not sure how DFS works, but with the myriad of networked filesystems available I’m sure there’s an exact requirement match.

Users can be centrally managed in a myriad of ways, but the most used software seems to be following the same X.500 standard - OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, etc.

Machines can be centrally managed via Puppet, Chef, etc.

Company software is managed by having your own repo.

SELinux can be used for incredibly granular access controls, but I can’t see most companies actually needing that.

To sum it up - you’ll always have trouble if you’re solving a windows problem in linux and vice versa. Just for a moment, try imagining a situation where you want to switch a 100% linux company to windows.

Please consider raising an issue describing your widget! Developers can’t implement something they don’t know is missing.

What I look like*.

Used systemd for years; realistically my first init.

Switched to Gentoo.

Switched to OpenRC.

Lost logs at work on a server.

Some small inconveniences show up on systemd.

Yea, systemd is not that great.

There are people saying they don’t want to care about an init system, but it’s the same attitude as of those who don’t care about what car they drive. Yes, it gets the job done, but that’s not good enough for me.

I want the job done properly.

Gentoo/Arch guy checking in. It’s more about having fewer codepaths to go wrong after some update. At least in my case.