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by lproven 8mo ago
As I understand it, Loongson is very close to MIPS. I think I remember reading that just 4 patented instructions were removed from the MIPS ISA, and I am not even sure that they were replaced. If so, that means that new MIPS-family hardwa
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by lproven 8mo ago
My articles are published by an outlet which puts them in front of the eyes of millions. I get so many internet randos telling me I am wrong every day that if I even attempted to track them all I'd go insane. No, I do not remember. I
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by lproven 8mo ago
Question. You may be too young, but did you ever try BeOS?
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by lproven 8mo ago
I am not a gamer and never really was, but a default config of Win95 made a lot of RAM available for DOS apps, as I recall. (And I was a serious expert in this area, 30-35 years ago.) I used to do very basic memory optimisation on my Win95
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by lproven 8mo ago
It didn't make it to release, and I believe MS switched internal development more or less as soon as it had an alternative. I do not recall reading any specific detailed look into why, so you may well be right! Intel let the i860 and i
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by lproven 8mo ago
Fair enough. I tried it, twice. 2024... https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/cachyos_arch_linux/ 2025... https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/cachyos_distrowatch/
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by lproven 8mo ago
Interesting. I almost never use Windows, and I don't want things like WSL or Docker anyway. I mainly keep it around for things like upgrading firmware, occasionally flashing new ROMs onto phones, stuff like that. I tried the MyWhoosh v
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by lproven 8mo ago
Good point, at least for certain values of "good".
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by lproven 8mo ago
Which is why Windows NT was multiplatform in 1993. Developed on Intel i860, then MIPS, and only then on x86, alongside Alpha.
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by lproven 8mo ago
> the sane defaults of Gnome. I have to admit that when I read this, my eyebrows went up so far that my hat moved.
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by lproven 8mo ago
Sounds good. Is there a precompiled version anywhere? I do not have a Rust development system installed anywhere.
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by lproven 8mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231992
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by lproven 8mo ago
Sounds like hard work. Didn't 11111-1111111 work?
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by lproven 8mo ago
> kind of just throws away the things you would pick windows for in the first place I'd be interested to see a legacy-free Windows, stripped out like LTSC, with no 32-bit binary support. Especially an Arm64 version with no x86 binar
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Every version since has been a regression. So very true. I set up a machine with Windows 2003 Server Datacentre Edition last year. That's the version of the XP codebase that has PAE support and can access >4 GB of RAM... and wi
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Nadella has been the best thing to happen to MS since Gates. Wow. My impression, as an MS watcher since 1988, is the exact reverse: that he is guiding the death-spiral.
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by lproven 8mo ago
> He was running Dr -dos Yep, that made it a bit easier. Still around, you know! It's the kernel of SvarDOS. http://svardos.org/
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by lproven 8mo ago
> I preferred hand-optimizing. Same here. But then, it was my job, it wasn't for gaming or anything. I don't play games much and I had an Acorn Archimedes at home. I could usually get 620 kB free by hand with no problem, even w
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by lproven 8mo ago
This was news to me, too. But I rarely use Windows. I used to like it but for me XP was so ugly and bloated I switched to Linux and OS X full-time. I've never looked back. I just play occasionally to keep my skills vaguely current. Som
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by lproven 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing my article, @rbanffy. To me this certainly looks like TDF opening hostilities against Collabora... while TDF feels that the local-first desktop Collabora Office was Collabora's opening shot. Rich desktop apps are -
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Maybe because I'm using it on a 'gaming-distro' Bazzite or something? So, no Snapper. So, no background OS component writing to the root volume. So, you are not affected by the problem I describe and have documented at l
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by lproven 8mo ago
OK. In context -- discussing an article talking specifically about AMD 386 chips -- that was not at all clear. I was at a talk celebrating NetBSD's 30th anniversary. I wrote about it: https://www.theregister.com/2024&#x
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Yawn. You again. Yep, me again. You know that line from the James Bond books? “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” I saw Btrfs die so many times, I know what to suspect. The official internal guida
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by lproven 8mo ago
The Linux kernel dropped 386 support fourteen years ago. https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/12/linux_no_longer_runs_...
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Don't get me wrong zfs is great - but it doesn't come with magical transactions. I never said it did! But if you have a snapshotting FS underneath, transactional software maintenance becomes an order or two of magnitude easie
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by lproven 8mo ago
> In particular, the remote composability and local deployment is extremely useful for "cattle" edge system deployment. A legitimate point, but I feel that there must be better, cleaner, simpler, more elegant ways of doing this
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by lproven 8mo ago
I am not here to tell you what to like or not, but doing my English Literature 'O' and 'A' levels were among my favourite parts of all my schooling, and even the books and plays and poems that I forced myself to wade thr
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by lproven 8mo ago
Aha! Gotcha. I feel like such a smeghead now...
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by lproven 8mo ago
> bootc and OSTree are both very neat May I rephrase that? bootc and OStree are both Cthulhoid nightmare horrors that only exist because of corporate politics, but the leading edge...
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by lproven 8mo ago
It is very odd to me to watch OStree-based distros starting to take off and win recruits. The only reason Red Hat needed to invent this very complex mechanism was because RH does not officially have a COW-snapshot capable filesystem in its

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