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A question for Solaris OS experts: why isn't Oracle's Solaris popular on the desktop today?
If I only need a browser and LibreOffice, is Solaris suitable? Will I be able to update it online and through repositories?
Or are updates only available to subscribers?
And another thing that's unclear to me: why do we often avoid some corporate developments while praising other corporate developments?
For example, ZFS was also made by Sun Corporation.
Is there a lot of software in the Solaris repositories (if there are any)?
Why do I need to register to download the Solaris image?
 
eternal_noob said:
This one?

github.com

GitHub - blizzless/blizzless-diiis: Fully-functional open-source server implementation for Diablo 3

Fully-functional open-source server implementation for Diablo 3 - blizzless/blizzless-diiis
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USerID said:
A question for Solaris OS experts: why isn't Oracle's Solaris popular on the desktop today?
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A few months ago I almost went to download it, but iirc didn't like something with Wine (maybe not up-to-date? Reddit)
 
While working on this:
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Post in thread 'Post Your Art and Writings Made on FreeBSD'

Read the First 1250 Crumbs on Your Terminal Randomly One at a Time

This was JohnK's idea.

Installation:
Unzip the attached file. It will create a directory called fcrumbs with two files in it: fcrumbs and fcrumbs.dat.

Usage:
Bash: 
fortune <path_to_the_directory>/fcrumbs

Example:
If you unzipped it in $HOME:
Bash: 
fortune ~/fcrumbs
Or also:
Bash: 
fortune $HOME/fcrumbs

Note: "fcrumbs" stands for "fortune crumbs."

Edit: Sometimes one crumb refers to another. If you want to see one crumb in particular, do:
Bash: 
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I've found out that the fortune command returns 1 when it finds the pattern given by the -m switch and 0 when it does not. This is backward to the standard way (0=no error) and to what the man page states.

Once I reported an error in vi in bugzilla, but the answer was that I had to report it somewhere else, so I never did, and I wouldn't do it this time either. So I won't report it. It's not so important.

This is the bug I once reported:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281638
 
I don't like thinking very hard. It's exhausting. I just like getting things done. And only when I'm in the correct mood. Life is very boring.
 
I suspect that all those new data centers are at least in part needed to store the images and videos generated by the users. It's interesting to note that users have no limit on the generated images they can keep on the servers (at least in one of the leading companies). I don't know about the videos, but I guess the policy may be similar. It seems quite wasteful. I download the images of my crumbs and delete them from the server.

Anyhow, companies like YouTube have succeeded by accruing an insane amount of data, 90% of which has little or no interest for the public at large.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Anyhow, companies like YouTube have succeeded by accruing an insane amount of data, 90% of which has little or no interest for the public at large.
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Apparently storage is relatively cheap on a datacenter scale.

And even though much content is not interesting to general human audiences you can always let an AI play with it.
 
cracauer@ said:
Apparently storage is relatively cheap on a datacenter scale.

And even though much content is not interesting to general human audiences you can always let an AI play with it.
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But the AI-generated contend seems to be bad to retrain AIs, because it perpetuates errors. Maybe the "data storage" part is the least important. Maybe they should call them "processing centers" or "server farms."
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Maybe the "data storage" part is the least important. Maybe they should call them "processing centers"
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yes! Storage is (and was never the issue), processing is the problem. -i.e. Storing a video for how long (when does the relevance fall)? How long does the "hamster dance" need to be stored and processed (and should it ever have been marked for storage in the first place)?
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
But the AI-generated contend seems to be bad to retrain AIs, because it perpetuates errors. Maybe the "data storage" part is the least important. Maybe they should call them "processing centers" or "server farms."
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Right. I is actually a huge advantage for Google that they have a pre-AI-slop copy of the Internet. Including youtube.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I don't like thinking very hard. It's exhausting.
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Thank you for your honesty, at least on this point. How does it come that you feel not exhausted when posting here on the FreeBSD forums in a rarely seen high frequency?
It's even more exhausting to read all that crap that obviously has been produced by little if not none at all thinking. Enduring your endless prose here is like a punishment.
 
I do know about that feature, so I'm missing part of the conversation. Anyhow the rules of the forum say that: "4. Personal attacks and profanity (in the context of an argument) are not allowed, and that includes users and developers like. Gross breaches of netiquette, like excerpting or reposting private mail when permission to do so was not and would not be forthcoming, are frowned upon but not specifically enforced. However, there are also very few cases where such content would fit within the charter of a forum and it would therefore probably rate a warning (or ban) on that basis alone."

DutchDaemon

Thread 'FreeBSD Forums Rules'

This section contains general FreeBSD Forums rules which should be followed by all members in order to keep the quality of these forums on a high level.

Though many of the FreeBSD development members read this forum, we cannot always guarantee that we will get to your questions in a timely fashion (or at all) if you post them only to one of the forums available here. FreeBSD mailing lists and comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.* groups are currently the mainstream place to ask your questions with a lot of subscribed users. Please note, that by addressing your questions to the appropriate forum you...
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I've realized I prefer the colorful circles with big capital letters to the avatars. The avatars predispose you; the circled letters let the personality of the user be the main protagonist. So no more avatars for me in this forum.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I've realized I prefer the colorful circles with big capital letters to the avatars. The avatars predispose you; the circled letters let the personality of the user be the main protagonist. So no more avatars for me in this forum.
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On a Linux forum I saw a hilarious combo of users with that letter avatar; some coordination could make that amusing 😆
 
So, the Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl LX with excellent performances by the defense and the kicker, but the MVP was a running back, who also played a great game.

I'm moderately glad that the Seahawks won. I like them because during an epoch of my life I took to listening to John Curley's radio show on KIRO radio, and they talked a little about the Seahawks.

Despite living in Barcelona, Spain, I like to listen to American local radio because the problems they talk about don't affect me, so I don't get dragged down by the negativity, which is pervasive in modern media of any kind everywhere these days.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
the problems they talk about don't affect me, so I don't get dragged down by the negativity, which is pervasive in modern media of any kind everywhere these days.
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This place and Hacker News are the only two social media-ish places I visit. And I only scan the headlines on HN. Same with national and local news and any radio and TV. If it doesn't affect me, I don't read it. And my mind has been so much clearer and I feel so much more relaxed.

Social media outlets are strictly bitch fests. They do not represent people in general. TV news is just to get ratings. Ignore all that.
 
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