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[jacob]

This catechism desperately needs to die. Let's ignore for now the fact that I can't think of a single Unix tool that does anything at all "well"....

[jacob]

But it's precisely the "anti-UNIX way" philosophy that allows it to make things robust, simple and just work....

[jacob]

But no one is saying it should support 1000s of different ARM SoCs. Just one. Haiku is a hobbyist OS and as such it would be a great fit for a RPi. That's...

[jacob]

The lone BcacheFS developer really seems to have an arcimony towards Btrfs and an idée fixe about it "eating your data". That hasn't been true...

[jacob]

AFAIK that problem concerns basically the boot loader and the 1st stage boot phase of the kernel. Everything else is standardised (except for device drivers...

[jacob]

It could be a fun and interesting os for RPis (particularly the weaker ones) if only it had 1st class ARM support....

[jacob]

Fedora is a workstation/laptop distro. In a default out of the box install such machines don't and shouldn't even have a SSH server....

[jacob]

The "one to rule them all" approach is a necessary precondition to building a deliverable, documentable and supportable product. That of course...

[jacob]

Frankly am I the only one who doesn't understand the enduring love for vi? That software is utter garbage in every way possible. Its user interface was...

[jacob]

Maybe MS could also help porting Wine to Windows 😋

[jacob]

Just thinking, since we are talking about LAME, one obvious factor is whether SSE/AVX is being used. The same compiler may use different defaults and...

[jacob]

Different compilers, different processes schedulers, different IO subsystems....

[jacob]

Can it be ported though? On Linux:

$ modinfo exfat

alias: fs-exfat
description: exFAT Filesystem Driver

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[jacob]

I'm glad to see that. Let's hope it's the beginning of a broad movement that will see SJWs and hyperwoke activists chased back inside the departments...

[jacob]

I'd put it differently. Whether someone uses Firefox or Chromium is a matter of personal preference, but in the case one prefers Chromium, why not using...

[jacob]

Technicaly multithreading has always been used. AFAIK as of 3.36 Gnome Shell doesn't do any IO in the main UI thread, which is one of the main reasons...

[jacob]

For backward compatibility, probably.
But maybe it should be moved out of the kernel entirely, like /dev/ is now managed in userland by udev based...