@Panki @StephenHarris @RuiFRibeiro @VojtechTrefny Please don't use the "request for learning materials" close reason unless the question is actually asking for external resources. That close reason should only be used for questions like "Where can I find a good tutorial for foo". If the question is not asking for a link to some other place, the close reason is not applicable.
Request for learning material, from what I gather, is a request for links or pointers to offsite learning materials, or books, courses, etc. In fact, How do we feel about requests for learning materials? is defines it quite clearly.
That doesn't cover a request to be taught something, but there ...
1) Can Anyone Explain what is the use of Metasploit tool in Linux?
2) How can I use Metasploit in Kali Linux?
Any help would highly appreciated.
Thank you.
The "learning materials" close reason is completely irrelevant and misleading to the OP. We can just close that as "Needs more focus" since it is just absurdly broad.
@terdon incidentally, I’ve often wondered what to do with questions that are closed but with an incorrect close reason — re-opening them to re-close them tends not to work out. Can mods single-handedly change the close reason, without re-opening and re-closing?
Or, if we catch it before the last vote we can close as whatever. In the example above, 4 users had voted to close with the "wrong" reason, but when I cast the final vote as "needs more focus", that is the close reason that stuck. The other votes are recorded, but the final reason is the one I chose because I'm a mod.
So yeah, feel free to raise a custom mod flag if you find things that have been closed with the wrong reason.
@terdon safe enough on Android ;-) (at least in Termux)
When I was a student a common trick for people who left their workstation unlocked was to create a ~ directory inside their home directory, and change their shell startup script to change to it — that way, on log in, their prompt would suggest they were in their home directory but they would see no files...
@JeffSchaller I'm trying to get some activity to Codidact... Hoping it will take off one day. Also I assume I'm not misusing this chat room by sharing a question from there, otherwise do let me know.
@FaheemMitha I don't know because I didn't use it before :P
@FaheemMitha I think it is slow, but the fault is not on Codidact's side, rather Stack Exchange has a massive inertia that will be though to displace IMO.
@FaheemMitha It is awesome, but I'm afraid it's getting short of maintainers. Packages being dropped or falling behind and such... Well, that's just my impression.
@Quasímodo the concept of "since we're building everything from source we can give the user configuration knobs for build time settings" is good, but the implementation was a disaster
Since it's a single massive flat namespace with no conventions for how things should be named or organized
so you have (e.g., this was years ago so I may have the specific names wrong) the "xorg" use flag for "install xorg/xinit/etc along with the rest of the os", "x" for "build stuff with X support where possible" and "x11" for "build these three specific packages you've never heard of with X support, because for some reason they don't respect the plain "x" flag"
Lunar and NixOS both take the approach of scoping build-time options to the individual packages, and providing a way for the user to override them at package build/install time (either as a one-off or as a persistent system setting).
(Lunar additionally had an option to prompt the user interactively for build-time settings; while I like NixOS its UI needs a lot of work in this respect)
@ToxicFrog True. I don't find it much of an issue given that one can run equery u package to check out what they do and hopefully get a good idea. But annoying it is.
@ToxicFrog Sounds very useful. Because of course recompiling a medium-to-large package is a pain.
Source based distributions have a lot of advantages, though some tradeoffs in the direction of stability. It's a little surprising they're not more popular
@FaheemMitha nixos is in this weird place where it's extremely obscure in the desktop/laptop space but seems to be catching on in the server/vm space and has a large and very active package maintainer community
(I suspect part of this is that packaging stuff for nixos is -- usually -- pretty easy, and writing your own package definitions that can be installed alongside the stuff from the official repo is also easy, so there's a lot of people writing one-off .nix files for packages they want and then going "might as well send in a patch adding this to nixpkgs")
(although getting those patches reviewed can sometimes take a very long time)
@FaheemMitha the only one I've used in the past five years is nixos, and as far as I know there isn't anything else with the same focus on reproduceable builds and configuration
I do, yes -- I've submitted packages for a few openTTD-related tools, some improvements to the borgbackup packages, and I've got a fairly large patch in flight adding the Crossfire and Deliantra MMORPG servers
The package database is also a massive git repo written in the nix configuration language, so packages are added/updated by submitting patches to it; the CI system determines which commits to actually push as package database updates, and the Hydra binary cache pre-builds the more popular ones.
(so for a lot of packages, if you aren't customizing the build, installing them is a cache hit rather than needing to build them from source)
(which is nice for things like All Of KDE, or Chromium, or the like)
Update channels (i.e. the things nixos installs in the wild consume to actually get software updates) are then branched off it at various points and with various testing requirements, with nixpkgs-unstable tracking master.
I suspect that at some point the nixpkgs repo is going to get too large to be convenient and will have to be split up along category lines using submodules or something.
Sorry, my system started showing weird errors, and I had to restore my home partition from backup. Where were we? Ah, yes, terdon's command that I wanted to try, but I couldn't see what it ends up doing because my system errored...
1) Can Anyone Explain what is the use of Metasploit tool in Linux?
2) How can I use Metasploit in Kali Linux?
Any help would highly appreciated.
Thank you.
