its_magic

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by its_magic 8mo ago
I'm tired of grub too. That's one of the packages on my shitlist. Currently it is broken on my system, as it has been in the past from time to time. I'm tired of the unreliability and have decided to write my own bootloader i
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Just one bug? No, there's way more than that.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
We are winning as in "we have more freedom to do as we like without a bunch of lawyers breathing down our necks." Freedom and liberty are what I value. There is no harm occurring to software as a result of more freedom or more lib
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by its_magic 8mo ago
You lost me when you started talking about the average user. I don't care about that guy or his desires. At all. I miss the days when computing was about the above average guy--not the simpleton who needs his hand held, so everything
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Manage their own logs, daemonization, and security? The humanity! How will they ever manage all of that? Come on man. It's been done for decades. It doesn't take a giant bloated infrastructure to manage most people's needs, w
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by its_magic 8mo ago
I've long been in the habit of reading accounts like yours, understanding the truth and wisdom that's being expressed, then noping the fuck out of the tech/product/situation in question. It has saved me a lot of trouble
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by its_magic 8mo ago
The problem with the word "sysvinit" here is it's sort of a red herring. BSD init is better, in my opinion. I don't like managing all those symlinks. Plus, sysvinit is an old 90s application and its code does have some c
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by its_magic 8mo ago
> Systemd is a standardization that is appealing to developers. They want to adopt it because it makes their life easier. It is just nice to know that all the tools you need for a system are there and work together. Pluggability is hard
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Send me an email please if you haven't yet. You'll want to try this distro, and I'd like to get your feedback. site: killthe.net name: dave
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Here's an example: When I was building the initial version of my distro starting from a Linux Mint computer, one time I accidentally double-mounted the virtual filesystems (/tmp, /run, /proc, etc), on the target volume a
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Your points are well taken. Linux is far from perfect and people shouldn't worship it. sysvinit is inferior to BSD init in my view and there are other questionable design decisions. The biggest problem is that people are being railroad
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by its_magic 8mo ago
The problem is ultimately that by choosing one, the other gets left out. So whatever is left out just has one more nail in its coffin. With LFS being the "more or less official how-to guide of building a Linux system", therefore s
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by its_magic 8mo ago
I'm with you on this. SysVinit is better than systemd, but far from perfect. I don't enjoy tediously maintaining all of those symlinks, and prefer the BSD approach myself. One project on my distro is a new init that will be much,
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by its_magic 8mo ago
It would be much unlike Microsoft if they didn't bring Win32/Win64 compatibility along for the ride somehow, and very stupid also, because as you say that is the real core of Windows in a lot of ways. I have no idea what they&#x27
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by its_magic 8mo ago
The only good beer is warm beer. If the beer tastes like shit when it's warm, it's not good beer.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
MIT et al are winning over GPL for a reason. I'm not a big corporation. I prefer MIT, or better yet, public domain.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
I'm confused as to which OS is the one that passed the other with dominant market share. Last I checked, Linux is everywhere, and Windows just keeps getting worse with every iteration. I'm not sure I'd be smugly pronouncing a
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Send me an email and I'll be happy to explain further, to whoever asks. I don't want to clutter up this thread with a bunch of arguing that will surely result, as the focus here is just on "going our separate ways" rathe
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Good man. Like I said, it's obvious you're going places. D is a good language. You chose well. Walter Bright would be happy to see what you're doing here. If you're not using version control yet, now's a good time t
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by its_magic 8mo ago
I would just say, on a positive note, it looks exactly like something a 17 year old would create--a brilliant 17 year old who is going places in life, that is. I would strongly reiterate that the GIGANTIC RAT'S NEST of brackets needs t
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Sorry dude, it's about 7 years too late to tell me to stop. If you like Gentoo, more power to you! It's not for me. This isn't just another run of the mill distro. It's like nothing else that's out there. I forgot t
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by its_magic 8mo ago
By the way--I did not want to disable ATK to get rid of dbus, but only did so temporarily. Ultimately a better solution is to create a UNIX socket just for the ATK<>GTK bridge. Accessibility should be something that the system fully s
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by its_magic 8mo ago
The difference is that the people who designed X11 were honest in their intentions. The authors of systemd, wayland, etc are not. I'll just leave it at that. (I recommend staying far away from "X11libre" also, for the same re
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Everything was going reasonably OK until I got down to that gigantic rat's nest of if-else statements and embedded for loops. OMG
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Just to be clear, I did not write these patches, but have collected many like this via scouring the net. I think I did make the ATK one though. If you'd like to be an alpha/beta/release tester of this system, hit me up via em
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by its_magic 8mo ago
I think if we're talking about "what everyone wants", Windows 11 obviously isn't it, so that's not necessarily the driving force here.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Are you implying that Mark Zuckerberg is a liar, sir?
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by its_magic 8mo ago
They might use the NT kernel and their own version of the Linux userland. I'd be open to the idea, if the kernel were open sourced (MIT licensed?) so I could play with it too.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Some wise guy has a "Linux/SystemD" user agent. lol This fella would like to have a word with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Yeah, that one is a real gem. BeST wInD0Wz EvAr

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