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ptx • today at 8:48 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

You can usually get info about the upstream from the package metadata, e.g. on Debian:

  $ apt info whohas
  ...
  Homepage: http://www.philippwesche.org/200811/whohas/intro.html
  ...
The distribution model on Linux (generally speaking) is different from Windows, though, so I don't think it makes sense to view processes as fully "owned" by the upstream in the same way as on Windows. Instead of letting each individual organization directly have administrator access to rummage around on our machines and install packages, this is mostly delegated to the Linux distribution, which may customize the packages. (And of course the user has the right to customize the program as well, assuming it's FOSS, so ultimately the user is the owner of their own processes.)

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hparadiz • today at 8:52 AM

Packages are not binaries. When I write software for Linux I'm not gonna sit there and wait for apt whatever to run in the background. That was the whole point of the sqlite db. Don't worry I poll the entire debian database.... and ubuntu ..... and fedora.... and gentoo.... . and arch..... etc.

The tldr is binaries on linux really should have org unit as a meta data field because when I write a task manager in C it needs to be fast.