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[kpedersen]

In what way is a VCS with a web front end modern? We even had that towards the end of the MS-DOS era.

Or do you mean it has pretty pictures...

[kpedersen]

I *think* we have qemu-static working translating ARM -> x86 or armv7 -> aarch64.

As in create an x86 chroot, copy across qemu-static-x86...

[kpedersen]

So now we know that Skynet was written in Rust.

Obviously it also had a bunch of watchdog daemons to restart any subsystems that did abort...

[kpedersen]

C can't go away because it is the entire computing platform.

Rust stands a good chance of replacing C++ in the future. These concerns about...

[kpedersen]

Basically like Arch Linux. And that seems to be popular.

Troll: Especially now after it followed behind FreeBSD and (re)got an installer...

[kpedersen]

Can we get a few more "open" ARM devices before x86 magically disappears please.

Especially Laptops and PCs so I can run more than...

[kpedersen]

They perhaps realized that XWayland was the single most important part of Wayland and needed to support it.

Imagine being a GPU manufacturer...

[kpedersen]

Not a bad suggestion. Since it drags in far too many dependencies to be "trustworthy" I have been running this kind of stuff in a Jail for years....

[kpedersen]

Rust basically requires a C++ compiler to prepare the *-sys packages and bindings. So you can never have C++ *or* Rust. If Rust is involved, it will always...

[kpedersen]

C++ done right is pretty close. They should start with that.

• Add a weak_ptr<T> like counterpart to unique_ptr<T>. None of this "zero

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[kpedersen]

POSIX is obviously very key here. Though SUS is in my opinion fairly underrated. Little things like having ed and nvi installed as part of an adhering...

[kpedersen]

This is my favorite thing about FreeBSD and it is like this by design. FreeBSD dug its heels in and kept being UNIX-like whereas Linux had started to...

[kpedersen]

This might keep some "user-friendly fanatics" happy for a bit. But it won't be long until they want a fancy X11/Wayland GUI installer.
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[kpedersen]

It is true. I wouldn't touch that DRM crapware with a barge pole. However companies are generally a little blinded when it comes to industry brands (they...

[kpedersen]

I went to a conference in China a few years back. Oddly enough Windows works much better over there. No telemetry can get through and the apps (spyware)...

[kpedersen]

Yeah absolutely. So I shudder at the idea of building *everything* from source yourself (not a good use of energy!). Instead packages are built by the...

[kpedersen]

Upon building them, I kind of prefer source rpms. I like that everything is bundled inside a single archive. Whereas .deb source packages generally consist...

[kpedersen]

Good point. They should migrate to an N64, just to be safe. That sees more maintenance these days than those new trendy "ARM" platforms....

[kpedersen]

Why not just stick with CentOS 7 (supported until 30 June 2024). That is a longer support than even Microsoft offers these days. Besides I am assuming...

[kpedersen]

If you want "calm", then certainly give FreeBSD a test. However, what "new" features do you really need?

Someone looking...