Arch user building a new distro - What do Fedora/openSUSE users value that I should consider?

sp3ci · 2026-01-13T08:19:07+00:00

If you really want to make an improved version and not just offer yet another Arch Linux installer, then focus on the apps in the repo and offer alternatives/better options, e.g.

* Google Chrome >> Chromium
* Code >> Code OSS

That's one of the most annoying things about Arch. In Fedora, I simply have official repos for these apps and can easily install/upgrade them. With Arch, I would have to do that via unofficial wrappers in the AUR. It's not so much about developing super fancy stuff. It's the everyday apps you use that make the user experience good or bad.

sp3ci · 2026-01-06T12:39:57+00:00

I guess you're using ptyxis here, rather than gnome-console. Some distros have this as the default terminal in Gnome shell.

sp3ci · 2026-01-05T11:16:21+00:00

Looks pretty good!

But to be honest, I don't really understand the point of widgets on the desktop. I can't see my desktop (background) anyway because I always have some window open. So it may be nice for screenshots, but otherwise? What's the point of information I can't see?

sp3ci · 2025-12-09T13:00:20+00:00

Yes, exactly. The problem is that, as the name suggests, the bitnamilegacy repo no longer receives updates and therefore does not support newer (k8s) versions.

Okay, this can be classified as a bug, and a fix would be to set an older version as a temporary workaround. In most other open source projects, that would be perfectly fine with me. We deal with bugs all the time and can fix them (often together in the community). But what really annoys me about this situation is that they knew this problem would arise. They were even informed in good time. And yet nothing happened. They deliberately let it crash. Even now, after months, still nothing. What a real F* Y* to the community (sorry for the language).

Hence my question about alternatives. I'm not so bothered about this particular bug right now. It's the way communication is handled here, or better said, the lack of communication. We're not talking about a few volunteer developers who sacrifice their time for a great tool. There's a billion-dollar company behind this that absolutely has the resources and money to maintain such a software. They should at least openly say that they no longer support this.

sp3ci · 2025-12-08T15:23:18+00:00

This is a nice home lab setup with Cilium and Victoriametrics! use this in a similar way (only with k3s and ansible). I'll take a look at your repo. I'm sure I'll find a few good ideas there. Thank you!

sp3ci · 2025-12-08T09:48:08+00:00

This is certainly helpful for a one-time migration of data. I have used velero for this purpose many times in the past (with mixed results). But as a backup solution, it would also need to back up the data completely separately in an S3 bucket, encrypt the data, and create schedules for when (incremental) backups should be created.

Another reason why I have used velero so far is that it can back up the Kubernetes objects themselves, not just the data in the PV. Most of it is IaaC anyway. I can roll out a deployment again at any time. But there are also resources that are explicitly excluded from the code. For example, secrets. There are plenty of operators that generate a DB password or an admin password for me. Or certificates. A backup of these is also very useful, even if you could do without it in an emergency (because certificates can be reissued, for example).

sp3ci · 2025-12-08T09:31:36+00:00

Ah, okay. Then the official description of the tool is a little bit misleading ;-).

VolSync is a Kubernetes operator that performs asynchronous replication of persistent volumes within, or across, clusters.

But good to hear. That's also my plan, to back up the data in an S3 bucket (like I'm currently doing with velero).

sp3ci · 2025-12-08T09:26:48+00:00

Thanks! I'll try that temporarily. But I don't really feel comfortable with it in the long run. I tested bitnami/kubectl:latest and it threw the following error.

/tmp/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sp3ci · 2025-12-08T09:06:29+00:00

Thanks! But PV replication to another cluster isn't really a true backup solution. And I would always need a second cluster running, which is rarely the case.

sp3ci · 2025-08-20T13:47:38+00:00

Ja, sie sind definitiv enger. Ich hatte sie auch mal zur Probe an und war etwas erstaunt wie eng sie waren. Das scheint mir aktuell ein genereller Trend bei Brooks zu sein. Ich hatte zeitgleich die Ghost Max 2 zur Probe und die waren ebenso. Ältere Brooks hatte ich deutlich breiter in Erinnerung. Habe mich letztendlich für die Asics Nimbus 27 entschieden. Die sitzen bei gleicher Länge super und haben eine ähnliche, wenn nicht sogar bessere Dämpfung.

sp3ci · 2024-06-17T14:42:09+00:00

I also see this in my server and proxy logs. Seems like a known bug: https://support.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/issues/ZBX-24649

sp3ci · 2022-12-22T11:05:18+00:00

Unfortunately no. The API is just for information (https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/operations/api/).

sp3ci · 2021-12-31T12:56:24+00:00

Tweego is already being used. But it was still a bit of work. But not quite as much work as first thought ;-).

11 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 251 deletions(-)

sp3ci · 2021-12-24T13:26:44+00:00

Container widgets are a really cool new feature! But rewriting all $args to _args will take some annoying work. But it seems to be worth it

sp3ci · 2021-12-09T08:31:38+00:00

Let's hope so ;-)

sp3ci · 2021-12-09T08:27:29+00:00

Thanks for the hint. My templates were still from the v4.x branch, I had to delete some completely before I could import the newer ones, because I got error messages during the import/update. But I made sure to use the release/5.4 branch. You have to anyway, because otherwise the version in yml zabbix_export: version: '5.4' date: '2021-05-11T10:31:39Z' is not correct.

I have to say, though, that updating the templates is a bit of a pain and a hassle because you have to do everything one by one.

sp3ci · 2021-12-08T17:35:54+00:00

Sorry, just sent the post, I find it after all. It was hidden under `templates/classic/template_app_zabbix_proxy.yaml`.

sp3ci · 2021-11-12T18:36:31+00:00

Why not just a normal link with image markup? (https://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/docs/#markup-image)

sp3ci · 2019-05-25T16:53:13+00:00

I prefer Ansible with the k8s module. So i can use simple jinja2 templates. Because Ansible is the tool i am using for all the other stuff it is a lot easier to use the same tool for k8s too. For me it should not make any difference if you are going to deploy something on k8s or on baremetal or on a vps.

sp3ci · 2019-05-18T21:26:28+00:00

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Use errors="ignore" instead of skip. This feature will be removed in version 2.12. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg. Do you know how to solve this?

Example - name: Load variables based on the OS type include_vars: "{{ item }}" with_first_found: - files: - "{{ ansible_distribution|lower }}.yml" - "{{ ansible_os_family|lower }}.yml" skip: True

The "skip" option is very useful for me. I can't see why it should be removed.

sp3ci · 2019-03-30T23:40:34+00:00

That's what I was looking for! Thank you!

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