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by biorach 4y ago
Yes, but there is no rush to migrate to the new edition - once stabilised the new features will continue to exist in nightly, in the same form as in stable. And yes, presumably at some stage there will be a migration of the kernel from nigh
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by biorach 4y ago
The kernel already does something similar every few years by upgrading to a new edition of C or version of gcc. https://lwn.net/Articles/885941/ https://lwn.net/Articles/855095/ This hap
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by biorach 4y ago
There's plenty of discussion out there - just not much in the way of nicely formatted documentation. There is a consensus on the way forward, but it remains to be seem how many tricky details can be resolved.
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by biorach 4y ago
> Rust now is very different from Rust in the early days Rust pre 1.0 kinda doesn't count. The whole point of 1.0 is that there is a guarantee that there will be no more dramatic changes to the language. > exponentially more unin
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by biorach 4y ago
Ah... Well FreeBSD on the Apple M1 is highly unlikely, so this is going to be a non-issue in the near term. And none of the existing DRM drivers are likely to be rewritten in Rust. In the medium term, maybe some in-kernel dependencies might
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by biorach 4y ago
> It is simply a young correct > unstable incorrect > There are lots of features you need the nightly compiler for inaccurate There are lots of features that are currently nightly-only. you may or may not need these depending on wh
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by biorach 4y ago
It's not possible to use the DRM drivers in other operating systems. Or are you talking about NVidia's closed source drivers?
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by biorach 4y ago
This is more a question of policy than mechanism - I'd imagine at least a provisional policy is in place, but the only to be found somewhere in the relevant kernel mailing lists.
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Rust in the 6.2 kernel(lwn.net)
253 points by biorach 4y ago|275 comments
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by biorach 4y ago
> The merge window for the 6.1 release brought in basic support for writing kernel code in Rust — with an emphasis on "basic". It is possible to create a "hello world" module for 6.1, but not much can be done beyond t
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by biorach 4y ago
welcome to 2010
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by biorach 4y ago
How is Bitwig with alternate tunings? I've been a bit frustrated with the inability to work easily in Ableton 9 with non-Western or microntonal tunings.
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by biorach 4y ago
> Just use FP and nothing can go wrong. That’s at least the impression I get when I read about FP. To be fair that was the kind of nonsense that was being talked about OOP in the late 90's and early 2000's. There are no silver
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by biorach 4y ago
>> Keith Packard > Now, that is a name. A name and a whole lot of history > Can this library be used as a replacement for glibc ? glibc doesn't generally do well on "smaller embedded systems with limited ROM and RAM&qu
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by biorach 4y ago
mX macs are the future - you are guaranteed that there will be future generations of laptops sold in the millions(?) using at least some of this hardware. So the huge amount of work is probably going to be worth it. Legacy phone hardware...
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by biorach 4y ago
Not replying further due to your condescending tone.
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by biorach 4y ago
The OP didn't advance the Lost Tribes conjecture. There is no need for such a sneering response.
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by biorach 4y ago
American healthcare is not underfunded due to defence spending. American healthcare is very well funded. It's just horribly inefficient and perverse.
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by biorach 4y ago
were you able to install this without using sudo?
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by biorach 4y ago
That's an inaccurate and quite uncharitable representation of what musl is about.
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by biorach 4y ago
The tone of your comment was unnecessarily sarcastic and confrontational.
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by biorach 4y ago
nope... not a clue
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by biorach 4y ago
dang has suffered enough
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by biorach 4y ago
> a product that gets pushed by their employer on everyone whether they want it or not. Highly inaccurate
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by biorach 4y ago
He wasn't advocating rigid plain speak
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by biorach 4y ago
I think the story is that an X developer was driving from Weston to Wayland when he had a lightbulb moment concerning how to radically simplify the graphics stack.
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by biorach 4y ago
Don't feel so bad. I've seen, from a distance, more than one friend tear their life apart trying to help an addict, to no avail. I think that your chances of making any difference at all were slim.
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by biorach 4y ago
I vote bikeshedding
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by biorach 4y ago
Not a change of topic. Rudeness from a maintainer is equally corrosive.
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by biorach 4y ago
RMS has the right to behave as he wants. He is not obliged to behave in a particular way. My point is that the way he chooses to behave is in the long run damaging to the community that he founded and leads.

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