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by lproven 1y ago
> i remember a time when MS Word was run within DOS The penultimate DOS version of MS Word is freeware. MS released Word 5.5 as freeware as a Y2K fix for all previous versions. It's quite usable. I've written articles using it.
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by lproven 1y ago
> Maybe we need a simple posix os that would run on a simple open dedicated hardware that can be comprehended by a small group of human beings. That was part of the plan for Minix 3. Clean separation in a microkernel, simple enough for t
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A New Compact: a magical new license for open sourcerors(opensourcerer.eu)
4 points by lproven 1y ago|0 comments
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by lproven 1y ago
> Must be something in the tides? Or the tax régime, I suspect, TBH...
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by lproven 1y ago
> a clock called the Chronophage Until recently there was one in the wall of a bar in Douglas here on the Isle of Man. Apparently, the inventor of the thing lives here. Another is in his home. However that bar, the rather rough 1886, is
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by lproven 1y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43554442 Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216754
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by lproven 1y ago
For completeness, I should point out that GSDE does inherit a little from an older project in a similar vein -- NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace It's Ukrainian so not much development in a while
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by lproven 1y ago
I installed it on Debian 12.11 last week, and it's working. Note that there's a bug in 1 of the make scripts, described in the GitHub issues. It needs 2 requirements swapped around. But maybe it's been fixed now. I plan to tr
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GNUStep Desktop: modern NeXT/OpenStep-like Linux desktop environment(onflapp.github.io)
26 points by lproven 1y ago|4 comments
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by lproven 1y ago
I forgot to mention... GNUstep's recommended window manager is Window Maker, which is still alive and in active maintenance with new versions coming out. There are lots of little Window Maker applets out there to choose from, so you ca
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by lproven 1y ago
It's a lovely little machine, and since November there is also a "core" you can load into the FPGA which turns it into a (heavily upgraded) Sinclair QL. This makes it one of the more affordable ways to get new QL-compatible h
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by lproven 1y ago
Hmmm. Interesting question. Obviously enough there are not a great many native GNUstep apps. It's Linux, though, so there are a million alternatives, but they won't share GNUstep's look, feel, keystrokes, etc. It comes with a
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by lproven 1y ago
Relevant -- there are 2 other desktop environments built on GNUstep that are in more active maintainance. NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace <- Ukrainian so not much development in a while; mainly t
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by lproven 1y ago
CDE is included as one of the options in Sparky Linux: https://sparkylinux.org/cde-common-desktop-environment/ For me, it's a bit broken, though; I can't get the terminal to launch, and without that, you can&
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by lproven 1y ago
https://newspeaklanguage.org/ ...?
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by lproven 1y ago
I wasn't the only one who liked it. There is now a sequel to this, by Lars Marowsky-Brée with an extra stanza by Alan Cox. https://opensourcerer.eu/a-new-compact/index.html
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by lproven 1y ago
> I didn’t even imply anything of that nature. Yes you did. >> maybe you got mixed up and you’re referring to your kid from a long time ago Accusing me of senility is not merely ad hominem it's also extremely rude. Learn to
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by lproven 1y ago
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like? Sorry for the jab but I couldn't decode the question here.
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by lproven 1y ago
> Yet it is here to stay, won't go away and even if it won't get any better at the useful things it does, it is useful. "Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." — Ursula K. Le Guin
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by lproven 1y ago
> I have a copy from the kickstarter Me too. But it cost half as much as my ZX Spectrum Next...
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by lproven 1y ago
Great! Thank you. That's much more helpful.
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by lproven 1y ago
Well of course I know. But I never owned a games console in the 1990s, I've never played a game on a 1990s console, so I have no clue what aspect of the experience is being captured or not.
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by lproven 1y ago
My point is general. That's what I was talking about. Don't assume -- especially when writing. Always explain because people outside your target audience will read what you write and they may go on to buy a million of your produ
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by lproven 1y ago
She is 5. I bought it less than 2Y ago. If you don't understand something then it is not OK to blame the mental faculties of the author.
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by lproven 1y ago
This sounds potentially interesting, but the website is so vague it's criminal. I have absolutely no idea what the "console gaming experience of the 1990s" was. What console? What experience? I've only owned 3 games cons
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by lproven 1y ago
This simply seems to me like a parody, and as such, I find it annoying. Was that the intention?
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by lproven 1y ago
Heh. We both said the same, here and on Lobsters. :-) I have been speculating for over a year about a FOSS license that stipulates and specifies free use. What I wanted to do was write one that was less absolute: take this, use it, do as th
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by lproven 1y ago
I like this. I like the style, the language, and the concept. I wonder if it qualifies as a Free Software or open source licence?
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by lproven 1y ago
Version 9 came out last year. I wrote about it. https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/tcltk_version_9/ 27 years after v8.0 which may be some kind of record.
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by lproven 1y ago
> If you create a folder in an open dialog, and the Windows Defender kicks in or it's a network mount, the inner window of that dialog freezes Oh, nice. Just what you want. There was context at the time of Win98, good and bad. Jobs

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