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by jcastro 10y ago
For development reasons it's nice to have the same exact version and environment on your Windows desktop as you would on a server.
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by jcastro 10y ago
Anyone know if there are plans to roll this out to other stackexchanges? Would love to have this on askubuntu.com.
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by jcastro 10y ago
I don't want to switch to ubuntu-devel or sid just to get a new version of VLC. I just did a `snap install vlc` and got a recent version of vlc without having to upgrade my entire operating system.
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by jcastro 10y ago
Unity was switched on as the default in 11.04.
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by jcastro 11y ago
The last progressive web thread on HN mentioned this app for HN: https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ and I love it. Does anyone know of something similar for Reddit?
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by jcastro 11y ago
Please. Canonical has written millions of lines of Free Software code.
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by jcastro 11y ago
> The reliability and simplicity of 'getting to a shell prompt' out-of-the box for ubuntu also seems to me to be on the decline over the last ten years. It has literally been the same for ten years. Ctrl-Alt-T or ctrl-alt-fkeys
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by jcastro 11y ago
btrfs has been included in Ubuntu for a long time, it's not "ZFS v. btrfs", it's adding ZFS to the other supported filesystems that ship with Ubuntu.
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by jcastro 11y ago
You can just `sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment`.
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Just Because Everyone Else Is Doing Them Wrong, Doesn't Mean You Have To(hastexo.com)
1 points by jcastro 11y ago|0 comments
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by jcastro 11y ago
Yes, all Ubuntu derivatives use the same repository so you should be set.
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Bouquet – The Open-Source Analytics Toolbox(medium.com)
7 points by jcastro 11y ago|0 comments
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by jcastro 11y ago
I don't think a +1 button would help. Google Code had stars in order to encourage people to +1 something without creating noise and then instead of +1 comments you got +1 comments AND people yelling at them for using it wrong.
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by jcastro 11y ago
It's just completely arbitrary. Other than "It uses a linux kernel" there's no list anywhere of what makes something "a real Linux". Everything around the kernel is a pile of reusable components that make up an
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by jcastro 11y ago
This "Android is not Linux" meme is pretty silly. "Android contains the only Linux component - the kernel" can also describe any distribution/OS using Linux.
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by jcastro 11y ago
> chain of anti-freedom decisions and went to Safari. You really showed them!
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by jcastro 11y ago
We're working on making Kubernetes easily deployable on Ubuntu, we just had a session on this today if you want to check out the state of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj76OeBjxpk Our goal is to make the depl
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by jcastro 11y ago
DS9 only really gets its legs starting in the third season with the introduction of The Dominion. The Dominion War has some of the best Trek episodes ever (In the Pale Moonlight), and some of the worst (The baseball episode), but overall th
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by jcastro 11y ago
The build instructions are pretty straightforward, I think the biggest issue is it needs Qt 5.6, which you're not going to find in major distributions at the moment.
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by jcastro 11y ago
This update effectively catches up the PC build to the same UI as the FireTV, Roku, etc. Before we were stuck with the old XBMC-style interface.
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MySQL performance tuning between disk types(blog.cloud-benchmarks.org)
4 points by jcastro 11y ago|1 comments
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by jcastro 11y ago
I've heard googlers mention that same thing, but now that I think about it I believe they were meaning to say that "for 1.0" they were targeting ~100 nodes, and once they got out there door they would start tackling the large
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An Open Letter to Google Nest(blog.dustinkirkland.com)
2 points by jcastro 11y ago|0 comments
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by jcastro 11y ago
The code mentioned in the documentary was thrown away at a later and they started over from scratch anyway didn't they?
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by jcastro 11y ago
It seems that with AC being more mainstream that prices north of $250 are becoming a thing. I was surprised it was only $199.
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by jcastro 11y ago
From one of the original developers: http://askubuntu.com/a/15295/235
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by jcastro 11y ago
Lollipop has effectively made my Nexus 5 worthless. Battery barely lasts a day now and the phone is still continuously plagued by disconnecting from the network at seemingly random times. I've owned every generation Nexus and the 5 wen
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by jcastro 11y ago
If you're using Ubuntu we've got a bundle of Juju charms for those who want to get up and running: - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/21/introducing-kubernetes... - https://jujucharms.c
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by jcastro 11y ago
> and some niche content like the 30 for 30 documentaries. You don't even need ESPN for these, they show up on Netflix pretty quickly after they've aired on ESPN.
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by jcastro 11y ago
The ShieldTV comes with Nvidia GRID, which is basically the same idea, a big instance on AWS with a GTX980 streamed to the device, it works surprisingly well.

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