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In a plain vanilla tarball from kernel.org , the default .config has neither Unix sockets nor TCP/IP set to enabled. I guess no one noticed because really, who configures a kernel by hand these days? Also most people who have already compiled a kernel saved their old .config file and it's mostly

danceswithcrows

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correct. Yes, in the early hours of today, I was booted from a rescue system trying to figure out why nothing was working. Both X and Wayland require working sockets; most other stuff requires working TCP/IP. But this new x86 is a lot faster than my old one (64G, 16 CPUs.) Whee.

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