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wren.wtf 2d ago

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode

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tuomov.medium.com 1mo ago

Linux is a dumpster fire – somebody call the fire department

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blog.kalvad.com 1y ago

Our Journey Through Linux/Unix Landscapes

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codecs.multimedia.cx 1y ago

My Rust experience after eight years

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poets.org 2y ago

Poets' Odd Jobs

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michael.orlitzky.com 2y ago

Greybeard's tomb: the lost treasure of language design (2019)

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usesthis.com 2y ago

Fabien Sanglard's Setup (Uses This)

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codecs.multimedia.cx 4y ago

A New Software Category?

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unixsheikh.com 4y ago

Use the Right Tool for the Job

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www.trinitydesktop.org 5y ago

Trinity desktop release R14.0.10 (KDE 3.5 fork)

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leanpub.com 5y ago

A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land: The Hy Programming Language

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forums.funtoo.org 5y ago

Funtoo Linux and Sabayon joining forces

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usesthis.com 6y ago

Zach Beane – Uses This

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weatherfactory.biz 6y ago

How I Got into Games, Part 1: Echo Bazaar

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usesthis.com 6y ago

Uses This Interview – Bram Moolenaar

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usesthis.com 7y ago

Uses This Interview – Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress)

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Unusual programming language choices?

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thiscontext.com 9y ago

Caffeine Smalltalk – Livecode the Web

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usesthis.com 9y ago

The Setup – John Romero

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medium.com 9y ago

Reddit.st – In 10 cool Pharo classes

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github.com 9y ago

Hy 0.12.0 released

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carloscarrasco.com 9y ago

A love letter to s7 Scheme

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forum.dlang.org 10y ago

Learning D by Mike Parker

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github.com 10y ago

PowerNex – kernel written in D

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www.funwithangularjs.com 10y ago

Implementing the classic Hammurabi game with AngularJS

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leanpub.com 11y ago

Game programming in Haskell

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www.marcocantu.com 11y ago

Object Pascal Handbook

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Why Gentoo? 2 months ago

As a long-time Gentoo user and supporter, my main issue is the time investment. Not the investment in installing and initial setup, not compilation in the background (binary packages make things much easier today), but staying up-to-date with software upgrades and changes. I did not mind it before the "life happened", but now when it takes even one available night in a month or two, it seems a lot.

Other issue is when you need something promptly, if nothing else to test it out or one-use only and you either have to wait or use something like official binary/flatpak...

Whenever I think that the time I invested in some of the mini-projects is lost/wasted time and that it was probably better choice to do just about anything else instead - I come across something like this. The only thing I can conclude is that there is no such thing as wasted time, as long you enjoy the road.

Kudos.

People easily install these without being concerned about security or privacy. I am actually more curios if these are audited at all or the risk is solely on users?

I use GNOME only in throwaway VM, but even there - only the extensions available in official repository are used.

If you cannot audit it and supervise it, do not offer a point-and-click way to install it. Do not rely on end-users experience and sanity nor the good intentions of random people online.

Installation of Gnome extensions or KDE themes (unless official package from distribution's repository is used) always seemed as unnecessary risk to me.

Gnome 45 3 years ago

Although I do prefer look and feel of the GNOME and most of the software I use is GTK, I use Plasma as well. The main issue I personally have with GNOME is it's dependency on 3rd-party extensions. For start, it's missing clipboard manager and notification tray that you get with Plasma out of the box (as well with other DEs and OSes). You want the dock? Again, you need the extension. Then you upgrade and at least one of the extensions is lagging behind.

I knew about Trinity right from the beginning of project (back then it was available in one of the Gentoo's overlays), but I am genuinely surprised it is still running and they actually introduce new features to the DE and applications. It is remarkable effort.

I went this rabbit hole roughly 2 years ago and I just quit at the very end, because my focus went from using the OS for something productive to maintaining it, securing it and becoming home sys admin.

Since then, I’m simply “ignorant” and sane - use it, update it regularly, use official software sources (so official distros repos and Flatpaks), FDE, SecureBoot, do not run random net stuff (like scripts, “Git” etc.), try to stay as default as possible and use a VM to experiment if I really need to.

I am curious - how many of you regular desktop Linux users actually had security issues (or at least suspected something shady)?

20 Years of Gentoo 3 years ago

I am running “full-blown” desktop with relatively minimal Plasma (I installed only the KDE software I actually need). The initial setup was quite straight-forward, without any tweaking or particular issues. I do use binary packages (available in Portage) for the stuff I do not care - like LibreOffice or Rust compiler.

Upgrades where you are expected to do something rarely happen and even then it is fairly simple.

The major downside is when you want to try out something - it takes time usually, so it is not instant as with binary distros and other OSes. For now, when I am not willing to wait, I just use Fedora VM to test stuff first.

20 Years of Gentoo 3 years ago

Gentoo ended my distro-hopping phase back in high-school/college student days (17-18 years ago). Top class documentation (the title moved to Arch in the meantime) and helpful, supportive and knowledgeable users of their community taught me so much about Linux. Additionally, although I'm not educated nor working in CS field, Gentoo got me curious about programming languages, build systems and compilers (as a hobbyist). I used it happily and exclusively for 6-7 years (then moved to Windows at work and Mac at home).

From summer of 2020 I restarted with Gentoo on my new home desktop.

Thank you Gentoo for everything.

Mentioning the debt without any figures is at least... superficial.

Article does not mention how much sleep daily is considered sufficient (I'm aware it is individual matter). Also, if naps help or not.

Slackware 15.0 4 years ago

Pat always gives it a personal touch:

Wed Feb 2 22:22:22 UTC 2022 Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!

Was really looking forward to this one... SerenityOS got me curious in OS development and Andreas is such a great guy.

Chicken in particular exists for roughly 20 years and like many projects started as hobby... Some time ago I read an interview with the author (Felix Winkelmann) and he gave the name because of the toy on his desk (if I remember correctly).

Your point is clear, but he probably did not have second thoughts considering he was doing it for fun.

Same here... when I started with Linux (around 17-18 years ago), I had to customize everything - from the aesthetics, ergonomics to the system level stuff.

Now I just change wallpaper and mouse cursor theme, check enabled services and remove the packages I consider unnecessary. Including the fresh installation time, it is less than 1 hour effort.

Guix 1.3 5 years ago

Questions for the GuixSD and NixOS users:

1) Are these kind of systems overkill for the desktop user?

2) How easy is it to customize/tweak these systems in the manner that Gentoo does? So, building from source by tweaking the software options on build time?

Guix 1.3 5 years ago

AFAIK there is no KDE/Plasma for Guix and correct link for nonguix/guix-nonfree is https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

Also, I think you can use the non-libre linux kernel build from substitutes instead building one yourself.