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[kpedersen]

It should be noted this tool is an unofficial 3rd party port and probably not a good idea to run on production servers....

[kpedersen]

The great thing about both Theo and Linus is they don't care what people call them. It is almost inspiring to get off these forums and do something productive...

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Yes, very likely. though I always find it interesting how, even with all of these security related compromises, it still manages to run at a useful speed...

[kpedersen]

And which BIOS is this that you speak of for the arm64 and POWER9 platforms which OpenBSD supports?

These platforms don't provide one so...

[kpedersen]

A hassle free release as usual.
I actively look forward to these each ~6 months

I also recently installed 6.7 on a headless Raspberry...

[kpedersen]

Not only is my Type 6 USB and does work on modern platforms (including the BIOS / EFI unlike the Apple junk) but it was hardly created in the 70s so wouldn't...

[kpedersen]

Exactly! Non-standard (or in the Type 6 case, pre-standard). So many years later, why do the clowns today keep making the same mistakes?

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[kpedersen]

I have only tried the Apple Aluminium keyboard from ~2006 so can't comment on the exact keyboard in the article (a bluetooth keyboard creates a completely...

[kpedersen]

Not cross vendor but if I bought an IBM keyboard for that matching IBM terminal, it would have a good chance of working. This obviously is something Apple...

[kpedersen]

Usually commercial companies opt to just take the software (and source) to the grave with them. There must still be something a little more to it....

[kpedersen]

It always amazes me that something like a keyboard can not be supported. This stuff was solved back in the 70s. What is that defective keyboard doing?...

[kpedersen]

If an install of Linux doesn't have SDL1.2 in its packages, it isn't exactly modern. It is broken.

And if it is in packages; it probably...

[kpedersen]

I believe AOO should not be killed but it should be put on ice as a viable backup in-case LibreOffice does something stupid such as focusing entirely...

[kpedersen]

I actually quite like these things. I have about 6 in storage waiting for kernel support like this .

They work pretty well as thin clients...

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Yep, you will see in a previous post I suggested keeping entirely with C mostly for the interop reason (not just externally).

It isn't C++...

[kpedersen]

Possibly a very bad source of data but it seems the mirror on GitHub suggests that just over 22% of mesa is C++ code. Interacting that with Rust is not...

[kpedersen]

I'm not really talking about having good compatibility with C code. That is "easy" because C is so flexible and simple to work with. The difficulty...

[kpedersen]

Adding a high(er) level language like C++ or Rust causes issues when interfacing with it from any other languages. You provided a very good example why...

[kpedersen]

Very true. For casual consumers, Windows is great for them.
But also using Windows-like non-case sensitive filesystems like NTFS and Fat32 on Linux...

[kpedersen]

I do care about that kind of stuff. If I see any of my colleagues commit source files into Git with a blatant disregard for case, I will notify them that...