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by lproven 1y ago
I am absolutely not pressuring anyone to do anything that doesn't feel right. But FreeBSD can run Linux binaries without needing a VM or anything, using the built-in "linuxulator", and in recent releases this means it can dir
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by lproven 1y ago
> Having never used anything beyond Linux, Windows and Mac, what would be a good starting point? GhostBSD. https://ghostbsd.org/
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by lproven 1y ago
Have you looked at zVault at all? https://zvault.io/
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by lproven 1y ago
This reads to me like LLM output.
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by lproven 1y ago
This may help you. « An introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD October 31, 2025 » https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd...
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by lproven 1y ago
This is amazing stuff. I didn't know. Thanks!
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by lproven 1y ago
Neither. Because they are not aiming for: > a free bug-for-bug compatible version FreeDOS is significantly different from "real" MS-DOS. Back in the 20th century I used DR-DOS, written by Digital Research, the company behind th
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by lproven 1y ago
> never made the connection between swiss cheese and Switzerland That is... staggering to me. OTOH, I have seen people genuinely ask "why is the Mexican language called 'Spanish'?"
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by lproven 1y ago
TIL that what Americans call "swiss cheese" is what Europeans call Emmental or Emmentaler -- or at least Emmentaler style.
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by lproven 1y ago
> It's amazing how much technical discourse revolves around impressions. One of the single most incisive comments in the whole discussion. My take: people don't take the time to even try to understand some things of only mode
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by lproven 1y ago
Jolla has been selling on real hardware since the Nokia N900 of which it's a direct descendant. That platform has been shipping for 20 years. It's been around longer than iOS or Android. What on Earth do you mean "vapourwar
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by lproven 1y ago
As Larry Niven wrote in The Smoke Ring and The Integral Trees ... "West takes you In, In takes you East, East takes you Out, Out takes you West, North and South bring you back again." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.co
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by lproven 1y ago
> The code browser in Eclipse > https://i.sstatic.net/4OFEM.png « Error 1011 Ray ID: 9973d6cc1badc66a • 2025-10-31 14:28:28 UTC Access denied What happened? The owner of this website (i.sstatic.net) does not allow hot
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by lproven 1y ago
Aside from the previous 2 comments refuting this for Linux, I'd point out the multiple Chinese Linux distros that have been around for years now. Deepin/Uniontech UOS -- based on Debian. It has its own desktop environment, DDE, av
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by lproven 1y ago
> This article feels super AI written. That struck me, too. > It explains what a virtual bus is like like 6 times in different ways Without ever actually really nailing down what the term means for software.
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by lproven 1y ago
Well, yes, but that is only half the story, so on its own, it does not add up. The whole idea of ARM2 (that specific version, not ARM1, not ARM3) was that clever use of the RAM bus meant it could run at full DRAM speed. But the other side
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by lproven 1y ago
I tried to answer at greater length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45745754 But I think in reality, less money for Commodore because of sales lost to the now-even-cheaper Atari ST.
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by lproven 1y ago
I think I see where you are coming from now. You are not saying "there was no uncontended RAM in the Amiga", which is what I understood you to mean. You are saying "the Amiga did have uncontended RAM but it did not ship with
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by lproven 1y ago
Is that not the distinction between Chip RAM and Fast RAM in real machines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Chip_RAM
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by lproven 1y ago
I do not follow. There was never any ARM-based Amiga from Commodore or any Commodore partner. Any CPU performance is 100% theoretical because there was no such hardware. The 68000 performance numbers I cited are from contemporary benchmarks
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by lproven 1y ago
> I wonder how much faster the ARM2 would have been compared to the 68k in a first-generation Amiga. Considerably faster. I looked at both (and the ST) and bought an Archimedes. ARM chips benchmarked from the ARM2 up to the RasPi 3B+: h
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by lproven 1y ago
> Imagine if you had an Amiga Chipset and you had combined it with a RISC like chip This was the plan for the successor machine, codenamed HOMBRE and never released. An Amiga-like chipset closely coupled with an HP PA-RISC CPU. https:&#
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by lproven 1y ago
> the Openbsd installer is the gold standard to which all other installers compare poorly. Very hard disagree. It took me half a dozen installs in VMs before I dared try on hardware. I never managed to get the Arm64 version installed at
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by lproven 1y ago
In other word, Bluetooth on Raspi is supported 100% as well as Bluetooth on all other platforms. ;-)
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by lproven 1y ago
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD
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by lproven 1y ago
> Arch Linux is the closest I've seen to BSD in the Linux-verse. It really isn't. The BSDs are smaller and cleaner, especially OpenBSD, which is positively minimal. Arch is huge . The closest Linux to OpenBSD is probably Alpin
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by lproven 1y ago
Ruins the pun, though. ;-) Saw a splendid thread last week on how thousands of Americans didn't realise "Shaun the Sheep" is a pun. Shorn / Shaun, but apparently, only in UK English. Bhyve == bee hive == lots of individu
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by lproven 1y ago
That was my immediate thought: it's a Forth that runs inside an ILO controller? Weird, but OK, I can see that could have some intriguing potential applications...
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by lproven 1y ago
1. Because MS's support for Linux is just marketing, nothing more. 2. Because a VM can't mount a volume on the host which is already mounted. Having volumes only accessible to VMs is little use when the VM has its own native forma
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by lproven 1y ago
> The first was the classic, abandoned NTFS kernel driver. Of which this is v2, an enhancement with R/W. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/ntfsplus_new_rw_drive... IOW: not abandoned after all. R

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