Ancient Boomer desparately needs help
My apologies, but I am not good at searching documentation and Q&A history without a glossary and ontology, That is to say every (software) ecosystem has their own c… (čitajće wjace)
My apologies, but I am not good at searching documentation and Q&A history without a glossary and ontology,
That is to say every (software) ecosystem has their own culture (tacit knowledge) and language (jargon)
I want to install mail user agents and web browsers on diverse systems, from e.g. RaspBerry Pi / RiscV etc. to desktops, laptops, on-prem hardware, and multi cloud distributed virtual platforms.
It would be nice to have a subset of the same server configurations and User Interface / Ergonomics descriptions (CSS) everywhere.
Regardless of machine architecture, kernel distribution, package manager, ad nauseum.
I used to be able to do this with trusted hash verified source or binary (reel-to-reel tape) or SHA256, e.g.), and trusted certificates. (e.g. pgp)
What we used to call tarballs for source, and RC configurations per user and per (virtual) machine.
I am SICK of Jenkins / Ansible / Dpkg / apt / yum / yaml / Nix .... as well as Snap, Flatpak, etc. etc. All in incompatible versions. I used to be able to create self-extracting shell archives that Just Worked on everything from mainframes to personal computers.
I CAN compile and run and modify ancient FORTRAN, COBOL, APL, LISP, and SnoBol without these headaches. I got paid very well to do this for Y2K in 1988-1999
Please take your time answering this screed.