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[jacob]

OK thanks for the clarification.
BTW in what way is chromeos not "normal"?...

[jacob]

If EXT4 was maintained by Lennart, there would be whiners that journaling, xattrs and extents are against *nix philosophy. They would be fighting to death...

[jacob]

It seems it's actually a protection against the kernel WRITING files. It does write some files occasionally, for example core files....

[jacob]

We already had a hedgehog and a heron. I personally vote for Hysterical Hammerhead....

[jacob]

I guess you would use it if you had hardware that neither OoenBSD nor FreeBSD support....

[jacob]

This is the month of BSD releases it seems!

[jacob]

Actually Android isn't proprietary; the Java APIs are (with some exceptions) fully open source. Android as such does respect all four freedoms, but in...

[jacob]

I don't see any of that happening (it wouldn't make much sense as others pointed out, if MS wanted official NTFS support in Linux they could simply port...

[jacob]

It would be easy but illegal....

[jacob]

You know that both can be true, don't you. It's obviously all about what you do. If you mainly play games, their compatibility with NVIDIA is most often...

[jacob]

I have no crown to wear, just commenting on NVIDIA by saying that I have no intention to buy any of their GPUs in the near, medium or distant future....

[jacob]

I don't expect to have NVIDIA hardware for another decade or two (or five).

[jacob]

Is this a backward compatible change or does it require reformatting?

[jacob]

For one thing, the POSIX model only allows read, write and execute. It can't distinguish between allowing a user to overwrite a file or simply appending...

[jacob]

But the POSIX rwxrwxrwx model is brain dead anyway, U would much prefer Linux to ditch it for pervasive ACLs like Windows (the semi-POSIX ACLs supported...

[jacob]

I remember that time well. The PowerPC was largely a victim of its marketing. Initially, they (especially Apple) ran hard with the notion that the "PCs"...

[jacob]

C++'s advantages are indeed more developers, easier integration with C build systems and with C in general, and it supports many more target platforms...