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by krylon 3y ago
Thank you! I recently wrote my first systemd unit file, and the experience was mostly pain free. I might recreate it as an rc script for good measure.
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by krylon 3y ago
I wouldn't know. I just watched a talk a couple of years back about reverse engineering tamagochis, and they turned out to run on some 6502 compatible chip made by a company that - IIRC - sells to toy makers mostly.
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by krylon 3y ago
The BSD systems have their own init system, called rc. I've never written an rc script, but as a user/admin, I find it very nice. There was an effort to create something akin to macOS's launchd for FreeBSD, but I don't k
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by krylon 3y ago
Tamagochis are running on 6502 compatible chips. Which makes me think it is used in other toys, too.
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by krylon 3y ago
ZFS, which is natively supported on FreeBSD. Jails, maybe; they are nice to have, certainly. Beyond that - for regular server use cases, at least - it's mostly a matter of taste, I think. There are situations where you need an enterpri
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by krylon 3y ago
That, in a nutshell, is what I - and no doubt many others - appreciate deeply about FreeBSD. Getting it to do what you want may not be trivial, but once you got it working, it stays that way. (The same can be said about OpenBSD and NetBSD,
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by krylon 3y ago
I looked into it a long time ago (~10-12 years?), and was disappointed JRuby could not use extensions written in C. It's not surprising in retrospect, for obvious reasons, but has there been some progress in this area?
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by krylon 3y ago
Python is technically multithreaded, but the GIL means only one thread can execute interpreter code at a time. If you use libraries written in C/C++, the library code can run in multiple threads simultaneously if they release the GIL
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by krylon 3y ago
Yeah, on macOS it works well, because the Ctrl-based shortcuts don't get in the way of the regular keybindings.
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by krylon 3y ago
Those keybindings are one of the very few features of macOS I missed after going back to GNU/Linux. It's such a nice thought, especially with macOS using the command key for most, uh, commands - it doesn't impose any burden o
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by krylon 3y ago
It was the first thing they added to IE after years of letting it rot to put something out against the rising popularity of Firefox.
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by krylon 3y ago
Hence the blocking of said URLs afterwards.
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by krylon 3y ago
I never listened to that (probably should), but I do like Symbolic very much. Maybe in part because the vocals are much easier to understand, and I like the lyrics.
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by krylon 3y ago
It's strange how a lot of us, if we were told to do this at work, would curse the day we were born, while some people do this for fun. I mean, you could say this about almost anything. But some things are just a little more ... unusual
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by krylon 3y ago
I wonder what their reason was to keep this language private. Or for creating the language in the first place, when they already had a PL/1 compiler. (Maybe the full PL/1 compiler was to large to run gracefully on their lower end
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by krylon 3y ago
I don't think anyone is questioning his intelligence. But it seems his manners have not always been able to keep up with his intellect.
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by krylon 3y ago
I recently installed adguard on my home server, and it did indeed break a few sites.
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by krylon 3y ago
That does sound like a problem Apple could solve if they wanted to. I vaguely recall that some PC motherboards came with a duplicate BIOS, so if an update broke it, it could fall back to a clean copy. AFAIK, some smartphones do this as well
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by krylon 3y ago
Both for learning about networks and in my work as a system and network admin, I found Wireshark (and Ethereal before that) one of the most useful tools around. I once diagnosed a networking problem a friend had by getting him to install it
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by krylon 3y ago
This is so much fun. One of the things both kids and adults find enjoyable. :)
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by krylon 3y ago
That sounds similar to my "origin story", I managed to get an older PC from a gamer friend who had replaced it and had been too lazy to get rid of it. I installed NetBSD on it after I failed to get my ISDN card to work on FreeBSD
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by krylon 3y ago
I'm not sure I would describe gvim as obscure. But this is certainly an interesting list.
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by krylon 3y ago
He he, I tried using alien a looong time ago, without success. In retrospect, I was young and naive, only had a rather vague idea of what I was doing. So I can't say for sure if it was alien's fault or if I was doing something stu
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by krylon 3y ago
I have seen independent projects provide rpms that are supposed to work on both RedHat/Fedora and SLES/openSUSE, with some caveats as to what versions of each are supported/tested for.
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by krylon 3y ago
Whether you pay the for SLES or their fork of RHEL probably does not make much a difference to them. And for customers who run both SLES and RHEL (not sure if that is a common scenario, though), having a single vendor to a deal with is prob
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by krylon 3y ago
I heard that it is used in some medical devices. It's hearsay, though, and I cannot name any specific devices.
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by krylon 3y ago
I just installed µOS in a VM and will play with it for a bit. It seems very intriguing. If I like it, I might switch my openSUSE machines.
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by krylon 3y ago
I was under the impression that CentOS mostly competed with Debian or Ubuntu, with the added benefit that switching from CentOS to RHEL was very easy. RHEL probably competes more with proprietary Unix systems (although they all seem to be f
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by krylon 3y ago
I haven't tries MicroOS, so I cannot comment on that. I use both Leap and Tumbleweed and am quite happy with both. Tumbleweed occasionally breaks something, but but it uses snapper to create a snapshot before each update, so if there&#
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by krylon 3y ago
A cynical person might read this as: "Even if you don't use SUSE, you can still give us your money" But SuSE Linux was my first Linux distro, an for the past couple of years[0], I've been a happy openSUSE user, so I&#x27

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