lproven

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by lproven 10mo ago
https://github.com/gershwin-desktop
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by lproven 10mo ago
> There were a few other similar projects a few years back Notably the Hello System, by Simon Peter, AKA probonopd. I looked at that, too. https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/31/hellosystem_08/ Probon
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by lproven 10mo ago
This was back in August, and at the time, I tried it and wrote about it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/ghostbsd_2502/
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by lproven 10mo ago
I was scrolling down the comments waiting for the first comment from someone experiencing this revelation. I only learned maybe 5-6 years ago -- but then, I only bought my first car at age 55, because I have a kid and moved to a tiny countr
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by lproven 10mo ago
Petrol or diesel?
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by lproven 10mo ago
Macro-scale quantum hardware: USB-A is a spin-1.5 connector.
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by lproven 10mo ago
I use 5 laptops from this era regularly to frequently: i5 and i7 X220, i5 and i7 T420, and quad-core i7 W520. All are 100% stable and run for days on end without a problem with Ubuntu, Pop OS, FreeBSD, and most other things. I think you may
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by lproven 10mo ago
Seems to be solely about AMD GPUs. I'm not a gamer but I do have two much-loved Thinkpads with built-in Nvidia GPUs I can't upgrade: a W520 with a Quadro 1000, and a T420 with an NVS 4200M. Both need the driver version 390 at the
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by lproven 10mo ago
> what exactly happens when you cancel your subscription? I have the previous model, the MC02. I reviewed it here: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/05/mc02_swiss_private_ph... The sub is for the email a
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Yes, this chipset can do EDO 3-1-1-1. All right, I will take your word for it. When did it come out, though? I think EDO RAM didn't start to appear until the early/mid 1990s -- 1993/1994 or so at the earliest. This was
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by lproven 10mo ago
> with such bad timings there was no gain or even loss Yes, that is what I discovered, experimentally verified, and published -- in 1995 or so, some 24 years before that post. > Legit 486 EDO chipset is UMC 8881E/F I am not sure
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by lproven 10mo ago
Mozilla has been publishing official Firefox .DEB packages for over 2 years now. https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/official_mozilla_debi... No need for any Canonical packages at all -- works fine on Debi
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by lproven 10mo ago
> What am I missing here? The whole point, really. Sorry, but you are. In the Pentium / PII era, CPU speed was the product of 2 factors: front side bus speed and clock multiplier. The original P5 and the 2nd gen P54 ran at FSB speed
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by lproven 10mo ago
> ram scavanged from an old 486 (edo ram) EDO was from the 2nd generation of Pentium. It was not a 486 thing and I never even heard of any 486 that could use EDO. The 1st gen Pentium chips were 5V parts running at 60 MHz or 66 MHz. The 2
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by lproven 10mo ago
Just for what it's worth, I tried to explain the context and the historical importance when I wrote about the original discovery of the tape, and about the recovery: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07&#x2F
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by lproven 10mo ago
I've heard worse ideas. Not much, but some. An AI-driven Linux, for instance.
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by lproven 10mo ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410650 And as I said there: It's tragic this gets so little interest while the dismal Wayland is feted. Wayland is like DOS Edlin compared to Arcan: half-implemented, profou
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by lproven 10mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400744 It's tragic this gets so little interest while the dismal Wayland is feted. Wayland is like DOS Edlin compared to Arcan: half-implemented, profoundly unambitiou
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by lproven 10mo ago
Superb. Excellent sleuthing and development, and well written-up too. I supported a few Apricot machines in production in the late 1980s, and Sirius too, although I had forgotten the strange keyboard layout. It always was a better design th
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Alright PopOS team... time to get cosmic out the door. The alpha was in early September: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/12/pop_os_2404_cosmic_de... The beta was the end of September: https:/&#
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by lproven 10mo ago
Since openSUSE Leap 16 a third of a year ago. I gave it a mini-review: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/opensuse_leap_16_reac... Xfce uses labwc. It works very well although standard window-management k
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Blackbberry 10 was an amazing mobile OS. 100% this. I had a Passport and it was one of the single lovelist phones I've ever had. Compared to my Nokia 7710, the last device with the original Psion UI... that was an elegant touchsc
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by lproven 10mo ago
Sorry, but this line is wildly inaccurate: > that doesn't require long time abandoned C code https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 2.3 Latest on Jun 16, 2023 https:/&#x2
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by lproven 10mo ago
> If you have this mythical laptop that lasts 10 years, let me know. I have 5. Thinkpads. X220 i5, X220 i7, T420 i5, T420 i7, W520 quad core i7. All maxed out or nearly, all in regular use. All nearly 15Y old. The ?20 range was the last
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by lproven 10mo ago
X11 can do it. It's Xinerama that can't. These days Xinerama is the only mainstream tool for dual head, but there used to be others. Nvidia Twinview was one. I bought my first dual head box in 1996 with two Matrox Millennium cards
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by lproven 10mo ago
Sea level rise is about to get a lot more immediate. When the Thwaites goes, the West Antarctic Ice Shelf follows. Once it's afloat, forget melted just floating, we'll see around 5 metres average sea level rise worldwide. Estimate
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by lproven 10mo ago
In case the embedded video does not play, here is a direct link to the circa 5 minute reading of the original tape: https://exquisite.tube/w/qoHtHzpNXncHwrfqpx31tF
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Unix V4 tape recovered: first ever Unix written in C runs again(theregister.com)
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by lproven 10mo ago
Emulators are fun, but not something I would really want to use for production use. I don't even use WINE much. I only keep it around for WinWord, and I only keep WinWord around for Outline Mode which no FOSS (or MacOS) word processor
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by lproven 11mo ago
I read them all. I am especially amazed by the comment that you used to ride motorcycles and assumed you were not seen -- which is a good practice. The point of indicating is that it's even more important to the people you didn&#x27

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