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by lproven 1y ago
> architecturally, it had nothing to do with the original BBC Micro. This is not true. It had lots to do with it. * The Archimedes used a CPU whose designers (Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber) have specifically said they built it to be con
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by lproven 1y ago
> it's no more the ancestor to my phone than an Apple II. It really is. Both Acorn (BBC Micro designers/manufacturers) and Apple Computer (Apple II ditto) bought in the MOS 6502 chip. When it came to successor models, both trie
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by lproven 1y ago
Xfce. Understands Windows-style keyboard navigation and shortcuts, which is way faster than reaching for a mouse and trying to aim at anything on screen. For speed, learn _all_ the keyboard shortcuts. I mostly use my mouse only in web brows
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by lproven 1y ago
What if someone doesn't want KDE or GNOME, or any tiling WM? What if we want some of the other desktops out there? Examples: I like Macs and macOS, with a global menu bar. I like Ubuntu's Unity desktop. It doesn't work on Way
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by lproven 1y ago
Interesting. It could be -- he maintains a Github gist: "Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!" https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d... This could be a web-ifie
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by lproven 1y ago
The author is me, and I dispute that. I expressed my uncertainty in the story.
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by lproven 1y ago
Article author here. We (El Reg) did include a comment from Mozilla itself about this in the story. Now a German site claims the story is all wrong: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox/richtigstellung-cpu... I hav
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by lproven 1y ago
Yep. It's been my default browser since Firefox Quantum came out, so circa 2017. I did switch back to Firefox (but only on my Macs) since Waterfox was forced to drop XUL support, but I am reconsidering that too now.
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by lproven 1y ago
I think you are wrong. It was too new. Linus' mail was in August; GNU only announced its new OS in May: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history/hurd-announce I think the GNU OS didn't even have a
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by lproven 1y ago
It's a distro of OpenSolaris. Oracle bought Sun and killed OpenSolaris. There is a continuing community fork called illumos. OpenIndiana is a distro of illumos.
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by lproven 1y ago
I am honestly really surprised at the number of comments from people who didn't know what it was. I did a sort of review 3Y ago. It may throw some light: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/07/new_version
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by lproven 1y ago
Hard same. None at all, ever, in anything. And I disable any I can in all the apps I use, and I try to find apps that do not embed any kind of LLM. Currently, I am giving serious consideration to junking Firefox, or reverting to the ESR ver
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by lproven 1y ago
Thanks for that! If it's a Win11 machine with Secure Boot then there is a high chance it has Bitlocker on by default. You should probably check and disable it if you don't want it. It'll be a little faster, and easier to reco
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by lproven 1y ago
You're not wrong, but there is a bit more subtlety here. Classic MacOS had no multitasking at all until Multifinder arrived, several years after the Mac was released. I was going to say it appeared in System 6 but I checked and it wa
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by lproven 1y ago
Harsh but not unfair. Just to clarify, though: I wasn't interviewing for a job, I was interviewing the man for El Reg. https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/mark_shuttleworth_ubu...
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by lproven 1y ago
> we need a cat with a phat wallet to fund development on the thing Yup. I tried to bounce the idea of Mark Shuttleworth when I last interviewed him, but he wasn't interested.
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by lproven 1y ago
I have no special insight, but I know of 2 possible factors: * the NetBSD "rump" unikernel is out there: https://rumpkernel.github.io/ https://thamizhelango.medium.com/netbsds-rump-kernel-framewo..
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by lproven 1y ago
:-) Still one of the single most impressive tech demos I've seen. There are other tiny multitasking GUI OSes, such as Oberon and RISC OS. There were even some on x86, such as the original Psion EPOC from the Series 3/3a/3c&#x
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by lproven 1y ago
Well, yes, we know that. I mean, that is the reason for doing it. But what is much more rarely discussed are the costs. There are multiple penalties. It hurts performance. It impedes dual-boot. It impedes setup in general; you lose most of
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by lproven 1y ago
So does ABAN and it's a lot quicker and easier and has zero effect on performance. https://aban.derobert.net/ ABAN is the modern free replacement for DBAN once that went payware.
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by lproven 1y ago
Not on low-end kit. I cut down Win95 to run from a 16MB SSD in 1996, paid for by PC Pro magazine. I knew that OS inside out. Around the turn of the century my travel laptop was an IBM Thinkpad 701C, the famous "Butterfly". 40MB RA
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by lproven 1y ago
> for those who were already using NT-based Windows at the time, Exactly! Well said. It was shockingly better than Win98/ME but not if you were already running NT. Then, it was a step backwards.
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by lproven 1y ago
> Absolutely loathed moving from 98 to XP. Good gods no. But then in the business in the UK late-1990s, Wikn98 was known as "GameOS". I ran NT 4 at home until W2K came out.
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by lproven 1y ago
This is all true, but the price was too high for me. > WDM made graphics driver crashes not take down the OS plus no more window tearing It made it more stable, I don't care about tearing and stuff, but it robbed me of full-screen D
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by lproven 1y ago
I decided the same, but for myself. I liked Windows 2000. XP was a bloated mess to me (in 2001) and I switched to Linux, and started upgrading a discarded PowerMac I'd been given until it was usefully able to run the shiny new Mac OS X
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by lproven 1y ago
Are you sure? https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/e282ac57-e280-93c3-af26-44...
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by lproven 1y ago
> Do you have this documented somewhere? For what it's worth, there is a Ventoy for that, too. https://www.iventoy.com/en/index.html
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by lproven 1y ago
> Great Slate fundraiser Thomas Ptacek Who is of course a frequent HN poster, one of the very top rated on the site. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek I remain strongly suspicious that this column of his is in
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by lproven 1y ago
Rob Landley, and the original Busybox author was Bruce Perens, who with Eric Raymond co-popularised Christine Peterson's new term "open source". https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/
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by lproven 1y ago
I didn't. It is a work machine. I smashed my right arm to bits in early 2023. I was unable to use that hand for months. I asked for a machine which could take dictation. This is what I got. And I have to admit, it's now my go-to m

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