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[ssokolow]

Note that I said "can provide", not "should provide". I'm abstaining from making that judgment call here.


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For Wine? No, it makes all the sense in the world.

Windows applications expect services that don't match the Linux kernel, so Wine provides...

[ssokolow]

Would that be Daniel Stone's talk, where he summed up the one X feature not overridden in a modern direct-rendered, composited desktop as "Terrible,...

[ssokolow]

In more recent Intel hardware, the bring-up and kernel partitions for the ME are signed together, so the "fail" option is no longer available....

[ssokolow]

x32 is not abi_x86_32. Take a look at the "Other “ABI_X86” USE_EXPAND flag values" section on this page.

For convenience, here's...

[ssokolow]

You won't notice any change.

There's 32-bit x86 (what Steam and 32-bit Wine use), 64-bit x86 (what your OS runs most natively), and x32 (a...

[ssokolow]

Daniel Stone actually phrased that as "Every Frame is Perfect" in his 2013 linux.conf.au talk, which prompted a Monty Python reference from...

[ssokolow]

I'm generally conservative in my upgrades. For example:

1. Even once FreeSync is in a state where it can act as a means for a compositor to VSync across

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[ssokolow]

If you were talking about referring to the "amd64" architecture as "x64", as the Windows ecosystem seems to, your argument would have...

[ssokolow]

Thanks.

As for my card, it's not ideal, given that it's now the bottleneck for certain games I might consider playing, but I'll probably...

[ssokolow]

Interesting coincidence that Rust's platform support list quietly gained a powerpc-unknown-linux-gnuspe target for one of the meanings of SPE relatively...

[ssokolow]

On that note, my brother just built a new system and decided to hold off on the video card until the post-Boxing Day stock clear-outs around January and...

[ssokolow]

As the quoted text explains, ROE is about protecting guest kernels from "gain root, then manipulate kernel memory" attacks by allowing the guest...

[ssokolow]

The problem has nothing to do with who controls Chromium. It's important to the continued health of the web that standards not accidentally enshrine a...

[ssokolow]

It could still be a step toward that if someone chooses to maintain a downstream fork, so saying "it is not" is a little premature....

[ssokolow]

Unless I'm mistaken, Windows ME was the last one based on the foundations of DOS 2.11, and the Win32 subsystem of the NT kernel is constrained by API...

[ssokolow]

*nod*

My issue is more to do with the simplistic and misleading nature of the argument, and its intent to tar all opponents with the same...

[ssokolow]

Ping!

Michael, moderation please? I got my reply flagged as spam by editing it to add a link to a TED talk.

[ssokolow]

Interesting. I had not seen that.

However, the relevant paper actually is available for free. (I found it via the Unpaywall browser extension,...

[ssokolow]

It is perfectly multi-user... in the same way that your keyboard driver is multi-user. You don't seem to understand how low-level a uinput-based solution...