Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009)

Link: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090323#feature
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42282053

#linux

My week in review: I manually rebuilt a #Wordpress server, installed a #Linux system snapshot tool, implemented a private search engine, and spent discretionary income for the first time this month.

https://myconscious.stream/blog/Week-in-review-Nov-30-2024/

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Screenshot of SearcXNG, a private metasearch engine deployed on a home server.

what was Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
In layman terms ?
#linux

When a #Linux application running on Hermitux makes a system call, the Hermitux kernel intercepts the call and translates it into a series of operations compatible with the Hermitux environment. This translation process involves mapping the parameters and semantics of the Linux system call to equivalent operations that can be performed within the constraints of the Hermitux kernel.
https://devjacks.medium.com/bridging-the-gap-achieving-linux-compatibility-in-hermitux-unikernels-26deed49ec88

🎉 RDE 0.6.0 released!

- New features (distrobox, podman, prolog, sourcehut, android ...)
- Updates for old ones (zsh, sway, mail, emacs, org-agenda ...)
- cloud-init implementation for Guix
- Transitive package management for Elixir
- and more.

RDE is a Lispy Emacs+Guix+Linux+Wayland distribution for development, research, and daily computing needs.

Try it out: http://files.trop.in/rde/
More info: https://trop.in/rde

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announce/%3C1366571992.12875.1732881988036@office.mailbox.org%3E

#guix #rde #linux #emacs #guile #lisp #scheme

Linux mainline just removed PowerPC CHRP support, and with that, support for Efika 5200B and Pegasos II/G4. https://lwn.net/Articles/998180/

The support might have been broken for a while, because I _think_ they removed some required device-tree patch-up earlier.

I ran a Pegasos II as my main home server for years, and also used it as a desktop. OSX ran on it too, with Mac-on-Linux. I still have the hardware, but no space to run it regularly.

It still makes me sad. 😞 RIP.

#linux #powerpc #nostalgia

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Screenshot of Debian Linux "Sarge" with GNOME 2 desktop, running on a bPlan Pegasos II. Also shows Mac-on-Linux running on it, with OSX Tiger, and the Hungarian Unix Portal opened in a Safari window.

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Debian Linux "Etch", with XFCE4 desktop, running on a bPlan Pegasos II, with X-Chat IRC client and a terminal open.

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Efika 5200B running the legacy Opera browser on Debian Linux with XFCE4 desktop.

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Efika 5200B running Debian Linux with XFCE4 desktop and Compiz 3D compositor.

How to create great terminal based presentations

https://youtu.be/KNNm_sZOVt0

#Linux #OpenSource #tech #software

In #Linux, these system calls interact with Virtual File System(VFS). VFS builds an abstraction over real filesystems, it defines some useful data structures to organize filesystem.

also , a reminder to dont let you clipboard shof what you copied, just paste it
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44990909/how-linux-system-calls-interact-with-filesystem

Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux

Link: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/bootkitty-analyzing-first-uefi-bootkit-linux/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264345

#linux

Jabber.el - a Jabber client for Emacs. It may seem strange to have a chat client in an editor, but consider that chatting is, after all, just a special case of text editing. https://archiveapp.org/jabberel/ #linux #osx #windows #bsd #emacs

dating culture clash

#9front #openbsd #gnu #linux #plan9 #dating #comic #unix

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plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person. Daemon: "So, how was the date?" Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine." Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?" Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

If you are thinking of moving from Windows to Linux and are not sure where to start, here's the software that I am using day to day:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/

(Work-focus, as that is where I spend most of my (computing) time, but I am Linux-only for personal computing too.)

And don't forget that many Free software programs have Windows versions too, so you can test before you leap.

Good luck!

#Linux #FOSS

Linux 6.13 Will Report the Number of Hung Tasks Since Boot

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Non-MM
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228672

#linux

@dharmik except for the "no ads, no tracking" rest of your post sounds exactly like what we used to say in 2004. After Ubuntu launched. 😊

#linux #opensource

I think it's weird to get rid of reiserfs just because Hans is a murderer. Like, we have vastly worse people in charge of much bigger things. It was the only good filesystem on Linux back when I used it routinely.
#linux

Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux

Link: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/unveiling-wolfsbane-gelsemiums-linux-counterpart-to-gelsevirine/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208580

#linux

@lritter

Reminds me of a recovery story.

Someone I had given tech support to, royally screwed up, got some nasty malware on his windows box (trying to recall, think 8.1). Pr0n was the vector.

I tried everything I knew to clean it up, but failed.

I said, we are going to have to do recovery and start over. Fortunately, I had educated him to write important stuff down on paper.

I saved his important files to a USB key with a live linux.

I started the recovery. A colossal PITA just to get into Safe mode. Dell sucks.

It started. Then the monitor went to black.

Ok, fine,, it is just a temporary diver problem. The monitor will come back in a bit.

Waited a couple of hours, still no screen.

I said I had to leave, will check with you later to see if the monitor came back to life.

I call back later, and he says screen still black.

I go back. I know it is doing something. I can hear the hard drive and the HDD LED is flashing.

I am leaving, will check with you later. I know it is doing something, I just can not see progress, but I am not going to interrupt the process.

The next day, 36 hours after starting, it was back.

Windows is garbage. I will not support anyone using it. They are on their own.

https://www.finnix.org/

@finnix

#Linux

Linux kernel 6.12 has been released

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169418

#linux

Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems

Link: https://github.com/oracle/bpftune
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163597

#linux

New Hearts of Iron IV DLC lets you rewrite German history, pushing player counts up to a new peak https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/new-hearts-of-iron-iv-dlc-lets-you-rewrite-german-history-pushing-player-counts-up-to-a-new-peak/

#HeartsofIronIV #LinuxGaming #Gaming #Linux

Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

Link: https://github.com/epasveer/seer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146338

#linux

Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

Link: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/02/dusting-off-dreamcast-linux.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42140863

#linux

WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly

Link: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/webvm-20
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42133980

#webassembly #linux

@wes @Angle Did they fix it? No. Your shell is overriding it with a builtin, but that won't be true in sh scripts.

Fuck's sake.
#linux

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/bin/true --version <SHIT> /bin/true --help <SHIT>

https://ilugc.in/arch-is-more-than-a-btw-thing/

@Angle @wes As Ferris said, "Macs are so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend it."

What if computing, but didn't suck all the time? (it sucks sometimes, because it's computers)

FreeBSD is relatively amazing, and much lighter and more open. The people aren't scumbags or abusers. Best of all, it's not full of GNU shit, /bin/true has no --help or --version flags, etc.

The docs are actually good.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

#linux #bsd #freebsd #maco #evangelism

It was fun back in the day, chunking floppy after floppy into the computer to get Slackware up. First to text consoles. Alt-F1 to F6 without even needing screen (not fucking GNU)! Luxury!

Hacking on XF86Config and being careful not to set your CRT on fire. Simple X11, grey stipple background, twm (vi .twmrc).

You better hope you had another computer with Internet so you could debug it.

Modern Linux is bloated shit, and no more useful than that toy.
#linux

Ubuntu 22 LTS is less openly broken, at least. But I dunno how long this shit's gonna take.

#gamedev #linux

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Make the most of the web installing Firefox

By contrast to shoestring budget can't-run-a-server Microsoft, Ubuntu has ISO downloads that seem to work. Takes a while, tho. I've got 120, 140 MB/s down? Ubuntu's giving me <11 MB/s.

I have an old Slackware VM but I'd like to compile on something shipped this decade, and I suspect nobody can use those binaries.

I don't like Linux any better than Windows, they're both garbage.

…
Ah, there's the Linux User Experience I expected.

#gamedev #linux

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ugly magenta screen unsupported hypervisor

asterisk refugees

#unix_surrealism #linux #comic #9front #cirno #glenda #foss #linux

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Child of 9, Rabbit techno-mage and Cirno are surrounded by helpless Penguins. A LOT of them. Nine: "Master?" Rabbit: "Seems that MATA finally managed to glue an asterisk to the `F' in FOSS."