jbovlaste

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   by jbovlaste 3y ago

   I ran Slackware for ~6 years, my first serious distro. It's kind of the perfect learning distro for Linux - a super stable base, but if you want more you need to learn how to do it yourself. You didn't need to compile your own ker
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   by jbovlaste 5y ago

   Got into Linux in 2008 with no knowledge and no help, Slackware was the first distro I successfully installed (after trying Debian). I tried Slackware after hearing the phrase "If you use RedHat, you learn RedHat. If you use Debian, yo
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   by jbovlaste 5y ago

   Breaking over new warnings seems crazy, but that can be one of the prices of stability. C, Perl, JavaScript and others have similar problems and come to their own solutions. (For instance, C has warnings under the -W flags and you could ena
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   by jbovlaste 5y ago

   Ubuntu made the switch to dash back in 2006 to decrease boot times, as dash is much faster than bash. This was upstreamed to Debian. POSIX compatibility made the transition easier (as most scripts were made to run on many Unix systems, not
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   by jbovlaste 5y ago

   I'm probably late to the discussion, but if anybody finds this looking up macros later, I found the HOPL IV paper Hygienic Macro Technology[1] to be a thorough look at the subject that hardly gets mentioned. It turns out solving these