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It's not a scam in the sense that you're getting ripped off. Enrico Weigelt, the maintainer, is just a total asshole with a weird worldview. I like ghosts.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/07/12/the-price-of-software-freedom-is-eternal-politics/1061363

It is still very likely on point. There is almost zero chance that Slack will be around by 2051.

Some nice talk on radios View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlN8IlFOrrg :-)

It seems to be anti DEI Irrelevant people. 😆

Has anyone posted the obligatory xkcd strip yet. If so, apologies. https://m.xkcd.com/1782/ I suspect the strip was drawn before 2018, when slack made it impossible to use with irssi. As mentioned above, for awhile, there was an irssi...

In fairness, it was one person who posted a thread like let's all do this on distrowatch, and several people said, no that's a bad idea, not least because someone will mention it elsewhere and give <distro> a bad name.

I attached a C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM108 Audio Controller, but not sure if if needs any drivers or how to use it. Anyone know?

I only just heard of HarmonyOS today. Anyone come across it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS

I have the idea it's an old X11R6 rip-off. The xlibre package itself contains only documents. It's xlibre-server and the basic I/O drivers. Apart from manpages and docs, I estimate there are 20 actually related files. Also searched for it on...

I do vaguely remember some distribution or another, putting on their forums, something like, everyone go to to distrowatch and do something to increase that distribution's popularity. That was a long time ago, but I'm sure it still occurs. I can...

I do vaguely remember some distribution or another, putting on their forums, something like, everyone go to to distrowatch and do something to increase that distribution's popularity. That was a long time ago, but I'm sure it still occurs. I can...

Do I need to install any sound drivers to make this work?

I wish I understood a word of all that! Maybe I need a whole load more brain cells....

Perhaps debate has more to offer than direct vote count. There could be a true or informational statement, or valid opinion from a minority of OS users, and vote count in favor of a highly popular OS doesn't make that less true.

No, I blame the anonymous lamers who abuse proxies to fsck with the comments, ratings, views, etc. @ sidetone, [...]"Though, much of the clicks are genuine, bc actual people who are interested in OS's, including BSD go there." Views are easily...

A percentage of ratings are genuine. There are trolls who artificially lower ratings of comments, and who inflate value of their os. It could also be for a particular flavor of Linux, which maybe some are helping for it to survive. Also, those...

Neither. Its not a distribution but an entire OS. It holds all the cards and can't be pulled around by all the little projects that make it up. However, smaller distributions (like GhostBSD) can certainly be made from it.

I'm running , FreeBSD (rc) , Redcore-linux (openrc), Artix-linux (openrc). All are more or less the same "init" starts very simple "rc" scripts. Systemd is a compeletely very different beasts. It integrated with everything, requires libsystemd...

You mean like we spoke at home when I was a kid. We blended German and English in our sentences at home. Today when I call my 102 yo mom we still speak like that.

Ping! Anyone using Fuguita currently? I decided to ask here rather than start a new thread for it. It looks good for an OpenBSD LIveCD/USB. There is even a 'demo' on installing desktop environment(s) though I don' t know too much about it. I...

As Steve Gibson on Security Now put it, little do lawmakers realize that they're opening up a significant surveillance opportunity.

vm uses cu for this. Hit enter a couple of times, then ~^D or ~. ~^D or ~. Drop the connection and exit. Only the connection is dropped – the login session is not terminated. That's the correct key combination...

Did that on a system without packages. It has 189 dependencies. The only difference I see instantly is the package naming. The Xorg process is just running. It seems to run on a legacy graphics driver wthout kms kernel module. It's too fast at...

At least we know. Though, it was always based on activity from their site. They need a better metric though. While they don't do it on purpose, the metric used gives it some blame. I wouldn't do too much to artificially lift one OS, but perhaps...

DistroWatch has frequently said to not take their ratings too seriously and given the way they make them. So, I wouldn't blame DistroWatch.

The cookie banner with forced consent is a red flag. Who keeps on using rhat? They probably take money for a position roo.

I have observed that a current Nvidia card (RTX 5050) with the 595 series driver links to my AVR and projector with all the prerequisites for HDR (10 bit, RGB, 4:4:4). Kodi detects HDR files and should have the code to use it. I know that the...

x11/xlibre It seems to pull in some bits and pieces from Xorg. I guess it hasn't been completely forked yet (all the bells and whistles), only some core components.

Crap. I looked up Geforce 9. I should have looked at Geforce 900M series.

Nothing was actually compromised. They managed to grab my session token (cookie) and used it to insert widgets through the forum's admin page. Those widgets have all been removed.

Did anyone ever really separate it and make an independent display server? Is there a dependency list of programs? which Xorg components can be deleted after installing Xlibre?

Don't think that's possible with a single device. Although it could constantly switch frequencies, you're probably going to end up with gaps in the received NOAA picture. It can't listen on two (or more) different frequencies simultaneously...

That happened a long time ago, you are stuck with the 340 version, regardless if you're on Xorg or XLibre.

Pulling a stunt like that will likely result in getting arrested pretty much anywhere in the world. That said, it's quite frightening how atrocious the security of those systems is.

fernandel, I ran gitup after trying dns.company's fix and it gave a message, the one I didn't keep, I think it was something about something being moved, anyway, it then read please rerun gitup. Which I did (gitup ports), and everything was...

Could you have just accidentally hit a key combo, perhaps while trying to close a page or something? (though I don't know what combo would do that).

DistroWatch has frequently said to not take their ratings too seriously and given the way they make them. So, I wouldn't blame DistroWatch.

The cookie banner with forced consent is a red flag. Who keeps on using rhat? They probably take money for a position roo.

DW is so phony on some (Linux) distro pages it's sick.. I've seen clear vote rigging comment spamming and other such crap. Don't get me wrong, it's a very useful site, but there are too many jokers pulling strings with votes, hit counts, and user...

I hope the future sees a massive return to telnet/SSH BBSes. (and dare I say dial-up for those who want to use it, though people may be forced to depending on how invasive the ID system may become) Use a program like SyncTerm to connect and...

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You mean like we spoke at home when I was a kid. We blended German and English in our sentences at home. Today when I call my 102 yo mom we still speak like that.

I have in operation - Olivetti XT PC (M19) with 7.16 MHz CPU, 640kB RAM, EMS and network card, with full TCP/IP connectivity - A built PC based on Silverstone retro desktop case, with i440BX TriGem board, Pentium 2 running about 5 soundcards and...

There is a great TCP stack for DOS called mTCP. It is not resident, but a library for client code. And it brings a lot of client apps, not only small tools but full irc client and ftp daemon - the latter is absolutely awesome to move data in and...

I had it running on a 386 with a 8-bit 3com network card. It's very stable but if you have 10 visitors at the same time it stacks up hours of processing jobs. It probably works better with a IDE2USB disk interface instead of an original...

I have in operation - Olivetti XT PC (M19) with 7.16 MHz CPU, 640kB RAM, EMS and network card, with full TCP/IP connectivity - A built PC based on Silverstone retro desktop case, with i440BX TriGem board, Pentium 2 running about 5 soundcards and...

I had it running on a 386 with a 8-bit 3com network card. It's very stable but if you have 10 visitors at the same time it stacks up hours of processing jobs. It probably works better with a IDE2USB disk interface instead of an original...

I tried that but it doesn't work. I probably need to install something.

I did this last week. I built an isolated DOS and NetWare5 network using just 1Ghz 686 thin clients that had 1GB or RAM and 1GB SSD. Neither DOS or NetWare could make use of the full spec of these machines but I loaded up my old copies of Borland...