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minus-squareKekzkrieger@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up100arrow-down2·8 days agoTake from the article: do these 20 steps to avoid My take; use linux.
minus-squareandrewd18@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down15·8 days agoAnd don’t look at /etc/machine-id.
minus-squareSolrac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoYou can use vAlpine or other distros that use OpenRC, or init.d Not to mention machine-I’d is use for enterprise deployments, and some encryption
minus-squarelogging_strict@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoor G’d forbid Void Linux with runit
minus-squareandrewd18@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14·8 days ago/etc/machine-id predates systemd, it’s from DBus.
Take from the article: do these 20 steps to avoid
My take; use linux.
And don’t look at /etc/machine-id.
What’s it used for?
You can use vAlpine or other distros that use OpenRC, or init.d Not to mention machine-I’d is use for enterprise deployments, and some encryption
or G’d forbid Void Linux with runit
/etc/machine-id predates systemd, it’s from DBus.