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[kpedersen]

I can actually live with systemd (Linux init systems have always been a bit shite compared to other *nix after all) but please keep the embarrassment...

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Where I think that the Pi wins out is that it has a fairly stable supply.
Many other SoCs seem to have quite short supplies and you need to wait...

[kpedersen]

Or just re-release the x61 for sub £80. They could kickstart the netbook era again and possibly make it stick this time....

[kpedersen]

A Raspberry Pi with ~1Gig RAM and 4 core 1.2+ processor is not embedded. Low powered yes, but certainly not embedded.

A desktop environment...

[kpedersen]

Doubt it. Only absolute clowns would do that... XD...

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I have absolutely no issue with Red Hat. Quite to the contrary, I am saying that they are perhaps one of our only options to get GPUs working well enough...

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Honestly, I am counting down the days until Gnome 3 requires compute capability on the GPU in order to effectively layout gui elements whilst making sure...

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Its kinda funny but the fact that Red Hat is now stuck with the absolute piece of crap that is Gnome3 for their main desktop is possibly the *only* reason...

[kpedersen]

Think about it? No. I lived it!

Check out these MS technologies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
https://en.wikiped...

[kpedersen]

I bet it still has very poor performance. Especially on the cheaper laptops they are providing....

[kpedersen]

No, I have only just woken up and finished my coffee...

Ugh! this Spectre/Meltdown nonsense could all have been avoided if people stopped...

[kpedersen]

For 200 quid and components like a gen or two out of date Macbook or 2015 Thinkpad would be very feasible and perfect for most users. Yes, not for modern...

[kpedersen]

Why don't they just release a laptop for ~£200 officially using boring hardware that is known to work well with Linux? It will be cheap, cheerful and...

[kpedersen]

This is fairly obvious surely. Companies do not release new drivers once their hardware reaches end of life. There is no real concept of EOL for open-source...

[kpedersen]

This is cool. One thing that is lacking from rio from plan9port is that applications take over the executing terminal. This is finally a gimmick of Wayland...

[kpedersen]

That's lucky because you will now need it running in the background in order to use Vulkan. ...

[kpedersen]

And now Microsoft owns Xamarin (and thus Mono leaving no vendor agnostic implementation)... Don't rush it. Give it time for them to work their charm,...

[kpedersen]

The enterprise doesn't and developers don't but consumers with their silly little Steam games and their fancy bloated Gnome 3 Wayland desktops are very...

[kpedersen]

Microsoft are guaranteed to fsck us all over at some point but luckily the nature of Git means that it will be easy to move everything to other servers...

[kpedersen]

I think you are using the term "scripting" in a Unity-like way, which is really more akin to "automation".

The difference...