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jollyrogue ,

For real. Numbers are strings? Yeah, okay.

YAML is better. UCL porn though. 🥵 Things are getting niche when UCL shows up.

jollyrogue ,

That’s what I decided.

It will be more informative, and I have lots of options for hosting.

jollyrogue ,

That’s not a bad strategy. Just gotta add some leftist politics to the mix.

jollyrogue ,

You use Linux because cuz Linux is good.

I use Linux because the BSDs are less popular. I want to get paid and have corporate applications on my desktop.

We are not the same. 😂

jollyrogue ,

It can be. It depends on the extension dev.

jollyrogue ,

65 to match Social Security.

jollyrogue ,

Armed revolt it is. Pizza first though?🍕

jollyrogue ,

Forgejo is working on federation. That is the big item.

jollyrogue ,

It’s something to think about.

Gentoo will probably be better if you’re using AUR, and Gentoo recently started shipping binary packages which can be mixed and matched with compiled software. 😄

jollyrogue ,

Debian isn’t that vanilla. Debian packages are well known to carry Debian specific patches.

jollyrogue ,

There are better options then Canonical.

OpenSUSE is backed by SUSE, and Fedora is backed by Red Hat. SUSE and Red Hat are both for-profit companies, and both are better FOSS citizens.

jollyrogue ,

Flathub is enabled by default now. I want to say F37 enabled it by default.

jollyrogue ,

The Nvidia drivers from rpm fusion are one of the third party repos Software with prompt people to enable on the first time it’s opened.

jollyrogue ,

RH doesn’t allow sharing of the spec files which generate the RHEL rpm packages. The program’s code is still under whatever license it is licensed under.

Besides all the RHEL code is public and upstream in CentOS, which makes more sense anyway.

jollyrogue ,

There was (is?) the yacy project which used a distributed index, and the individual nodes would contribute to the index.

A hybrid of original Yahoo! and Google is probably the best option. Sites submit themselves, they get reviewed, and an algorithm catalogs the contents. So curation and automatic indexing together.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

jollyrogue ,

Yeah, but I’m good at my job and they aren’t.

jollyrogue ,

That ruins the brevity and wit of the joke.

That was the one good thing I did all week! I needed that. Those little points were holding up my house of cards. Only my toaster loves me!😭❤️⚡️💧

Naw, I’d be rich sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a Mai Tai if I was something above mediocre, or maybe I wouldn’t be because regardless of my skill level we live in an unfair capitalist society which rewards those who are the most willfully exploited and with the fewest morals. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Anyway, maybe we should leave the joke alone and not think that hard about it. K?

jollyrogue ,

git rebase is only for terrorists. 🥸

Also for me when I’ve been drinking and committed some really stupid shit into the repo. No one needs to know what I really think of my team members.

jollyrogue ,

He’ll have more time to spend on the Phoronix forums now. 🙂

jollyrogue ,

Not really. He posts under his own name, so I recognized it from the forums.

jollyrogue ,

He did some porn work in the ‘80s. So brave? 🤷🏽‍♂️

jollyrogue ,

Me too buddy. Me too.

jollyrogue ,

I can’t seem to find where to buy the OpenWRT One or when it’s going to ship.

jollyrogue ,

This is interesting. A few questions though.

How hackable is it? Are other distros or OSes devs going to be able to get their system ported to it? Seeing Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD, or OpenBSD on this would be pretty cool.

Armbian lists several BPi boards as supported. Has anyone run Armbian on the BPi stuff?

jollyrogue ,

Already found that. Still can’t buy it, still not shipping. 😂

jollyrogue ,

Plus, being able to sandbox user space applications, which previously had free reign, is nice.

Sandboxing isn’t 100% there yet, but it’s come along way.

jollyrogue ,

I have to agree. I tried some of the JetBrains IDEs from Flathub, and I switched back to the regular JetBrains Toolbox versions.

anders , to linux

Enterprise Linux on desktop?

Anyone using enterprise Linux on their desktop such as RHEL, Alma, Rocky, CentOS etc.?

I'm curious if it's easy to use for this purpose or if the older packages are a pain.

@linux

jollyrogue ,

Except CentOS/RHEL. RH doesn’t build the kernels with btrfs support.

jollyrogue , (edited )

It can be done, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Containers and VMs running a stable distro on top of something like Fedora, Tumbleweed, or whatever else is my preferred setup.

Something like Fedora also has a more mature in-place upgrade ability than the EL distros have.

jollyrogue ,

Just why? RHEL gets a new version every 5 years.

You answered your own question. Maintaining software will eat up lots of time. It’s fine when there is a team to maintain software for installs, but not really something a single person running a desktop/laptop probably wants to deal with.

The 5yr release cycle is a pain starting about year 3 even for people who get paid to deal with it. 😆

VMs and containers on top of something more up to date is the best of both. Up to date distro with features, and all the distros one could want!

In-place upgrades are very relevant. Who wants to destroy their setup and reinstall everything when a new OS is released?

There is leapp for EL in-place upgrades, but it’s new and rather rough, from my testing.

Flatpak has made software support better, but I’d still recommend something else without a concrete reason, like proprietary CFD software or something which only supports EL.

jollyrogue ,

They don’t have any devs to support it. The one dev who an idea about btrfs left for Oracle, from what I’ve read.

Btrfs is rather nice in the correct scenarios, and lack of btrfs is one reason I’m moving away from CentOS servers.

jollyrogue ,

The cutting edge distro will have better consumer hardware support, which matters in a laptop/desktop.

jollyrogue ,

I did on arch.

Arch. There’s the problem. 😆

Fedora and Tumbleweed keep up with Arch while being easier to maintain. Fedora is a semi-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is rolling release. Both are much more stable than Arch is.

Arch is great for people who want to tinker with their desktop/laptop install. I do not, so I run Fedora.

It depends on the user.

Run Fedora or Tumbleweed. They will be continuously updated, and an install will last years.

It will always boot…

Your basis for comparison is Arch which is known to be highly unstable and a handful to maintain. 😆

For my work, I need different OSes and distros for testing. If someone needs a stable distro for something, a VM or container will work. There are ways around the needing a stable.

Also, containers aren’t a penalty.

It’s good for clean up, and I got used to it on Windows.

You can break the cycle. Just because some you suffered doesn’t mean others have to. 🙂

Everyone says they’re going to clean up their profiles, but no one does. 😆

Keep your dot files in a repo…

I have that because I run through so many test servers and temp installs.

Then there are Ansible playbooks to setup my systems.

jollyrogue ,

I once had a C# dev tell me they couldn’t run JavaScript because they didn’t have Java installed.

jollyrogue ,

Bibi needs a mustache.

Going to start a change.org petition, and maybe this is one thing the WH will press him on.

jollyrogue ,

What’s the name of their rap group?

Older Computer Programmers & Engineers

Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish...

jollyrogue ,

The prevalence of FOSS software is amazing.

Linux distros, BSDs, GCC, LLVM, GNU tools… The equivalent stack in the 90s was expensive, proprietary, and rare. I was getting software from magazine CDs, and none of the expensive tool chains were showing up on them.

Free DVCS in Git is also great. No manual versioning schemes anymore. git init for a new repo. There was SVN, but it required a server.

jollyrogue ,

Proprietary software is one of the last anchors holding people to Windows or macOS.

Ideally, people would switch to FOSS alternatives on a FOSS OS, but proprietary software on top of a FOSS OS is better than FOSS software on a proprietary OS.

Also, people are going to charge for software in some form or fashion. The economic model would need to change in order to allow people to develop software without any economic motives.

jollyrogue ,

Bigger platforms attract more devs.

The BSDs don’t have the dev resources of Linux simply because Linux has a much larger install base.

jollyrogue ,

Yeah, why isn’t ChromeOS rolled into Linux?

jollyrogue ,

ChromeOS uses a custom display server for the moment, but Chrome + <random Linux distro> is pretty similar. 🤷🏽‍♂️

ChromeOS is moving to Wayland as their display server, to make it even more of a standard Linux install.

jollyrogue ,

I’m not sure about that. Android isn’t Linux for those reasons, but ChromeOS is much, much closer to a regular GNU/Linux distro. They’re even switching to Wayland from what I’ve heard. 😄

jollyrogue ,

Yeah, really. OpenBSD punches above its weight. There are many things they would like todo, but don’t have the resources.

jollyrogue ,

I was thinking the Prince estate, but yeah GnR too.

jollyrogue ,

Those Vietnamese Internet sharks are getting to be a real problem. 😆

jollyrogue ,

Money mostly.

There is usually something like needing $250K in the bank to be considered for permanent residency. Then the paperwork costs money, so most Americans will have to wait until they get refugee status.

jollyrogue ,

No. Most don’t leave the US, so they isn’t a need. Plus, until recently, Canada and Mexico only needed an ID card like a drivers license.

jollyrogue ,

Do they use the binary blobs? I figured MS, Vivaldi, the random Chromium in the distro repos stripped those out or replaced them with their own secret bins before compilation.

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