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minus-squareandrewd18@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoAnd don’t look at /etc/machine-id.
minus-squareSolrac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours 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-squareandrewd18@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 hours ago/etc/machine-id predates systemd, it’s from DBus.
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
/etc/machine-id predates systemd, it’s from DBus.