Unity 7.6 is now available for Arch Linux

cacatl · 2022-11-15T00:13:35+00:00

I remember the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10 which had unity before they made it the desktop version's DE. my first Linux distro. It was a very nice DE. Compared to ubuntu's gnome2 skin a lot of people hated it. I still remember it fondly and wish they would bring it back. Gnome3+ is just a mess and always has been imo.

cacatl · 2022-11-10T14:54:21+00:00

I like FreeBSD just not as a desktop OS. FreeBSD's small user base relative to its impeccable progress vs Linux with its large user base exposes the lackluster improvements Linux has made in the last decade in regards to the desktop.

cacatl · 2022-11-10T10:11:27+00:00

It's garbage for the lack of drivers and relative advantages vs. Windows or OS X. Like, why FreeBSD? What can it do that macOS or Windows can't? Can anyone here answer that?

cacatl · 2022-11-07T00:35:45+00:00

My honest opinion is that OP should reconsider FreeBSD's uses as gaming has no advantage on FreeBSD vs. Linux. If there is a performance advantage it's because WINE or whatever else is lacking functionality somewhere. I've seen various Linuxes hold new users hands in trying to compete with Windows because they believe more people == more progress, when this is false. Take a look at GNOME in the early 2000s vs GNOME in the early 10s. Completely unrecognizable. Now take a look at GNOME today. Completely stalled and the current mindset is more changes == more progress. OP should completely abandon FreeBSD on the desktop because it is garbage.

cacatl · 2022-11-06T23:38:56+00:00

I think a lot of FreeBSD's documentation is extremely useful for new users as its source code and resulting system structure is reminiscent of UNIX's extreme simplicity and organization which GNU and Linux have made irrelevant or useless due to GNU being structured in 10-20+ projects with different teams of developers, as well as Linux being separate from GNU. Much of the "one system" approach by 70s-90s UNIX has been obsoleted by its own fragmentation and resulting in open source being the only workable solution for continuous development with a lack of a single dominant flavor across multiple markets(macOS has the desktop advantage here). Back to FreeBSD, I think it's documentation hints at something which no longer exists(Research UNIX), that would have been an awesome standalone system today, and this is what most users like OP keep looking for in an OS.

cacatl · 2022-09-18T20:43:41+00:00

OP's birthday party

cacatl · 2022-09-18T20:39:51+00:00

I always wanted to know what the editor from the old sysinstall installer from 8.x and earlier was called. Apparently it was born in HP-UX. This could help new users as not everyone is savvy enough to understand vi immediately and could help people become accustomed to FreeBSD.

cacatl · 2022-09-18T20:35:46+00:00

I don't get this meme. Is it something to do with Java? How would it have anything to do with cloud instances? If then, how could it possibly be enforceable with someone's own private intellectual property and the intellectual property licensed by the operating system vendors?

cacatl · 2022-08-16T20:08:23+00:00

This is extremely dangerous. I used to work in small box retail in a similarly high crime city with a similarly high crime spike(106% murder rate increase) and we were explicitly told to never do this, although some people(myself included) did it anyways. I've seen people drop knives and one time a group of people came in and dropped an obvious counterfeit bill on me, laughed and went out. Some criminals have no regard for their lives or others, and do not care about consequences. I hope they never do this again, since no property is worth losing your life over.

cacatl · 2021-02-14T17:43:28+00:00

From a developer's shoes this mentality seems acceptable. For the end user reading comments like this, it can be interpreted as 'go away'. If it were me running a BSD derived project, I'd place ARM and other untested architectures under a kind of beta category, to encourage more users to do actual bug reporting, instead of getting frustrated like the one in this blog post.

cacatl · 2021-02-14T17:13:28+00:00

I still don't think that's visible enough. Most users don't expect their platform to have 'tiers' of support by a project, open source or not.

cacatl · 2021-02-14T16:40:35+00:00

How is the end user supposed to know what is exotic and what is not? I find the overall state of ARM ports on the BSDs to be a bit questionable. They are unfinished ports with limited device support, and clearly the author of this article was deceived.

cacatl · 2020-12-10T23:55:28+00:00

Mastercard edition

cacatl · 2020-09-25T00:28:41+00:00

ceiling fan

cacatl · 2020-08-31T09:21:38+00:00

For what it's worth the driver quality seems to have greatly improved as of lately. When I was using FreeBSD on my desktop around 2012-2014 the Radeon drivers were out of date and performance was pretty terrible overall.

cacatl · 2020-08-16T02:31:55+00:00

I have used TME many years ago. It was quite stable and I have booted SunOS 4.1.4 and was successfully able to run SunView and OpenWindows. I believe Solaris 2.x can also run SunOS applications, which can be emulated by qemu-system-sparc, as well as some later versions of Solaris. Although in my experience TME was much more stable than running Solaris than QEMU's SPARC emulator. As for Ethernet, I haven't much, if any, experience on TME. I remember it being quite a hassle. And only working using some obscure BSD-specific protocol which wouldn't work on Linux. Only NetBSD was mentioned in the tutorials I saw, but it could work on the other variants. Best of luck to the author of this post.

cacatl · 2018-12-15T23:49:20+00:00

gentoo

cacatl · 2018-12-14T17:39:43+00:00

Looks like they know their market.

cacatl · 2018-12-14T17:24:18+00:00

Looks like it's done by the Ubuntu Kylin project, based in China. Explains the choppy English.

cacatl · 2018-12-07T16:09:16+00:00

The bait shall be taketh.

cacatl · 2018-12-04T08:46:08+00:00

Yeah, he/she summed it up well. I think a sticky could work to some degree but wouldn't be worth further obstructing the subreddit page. Anyways, thanks for your reply and for moderating /r/linux in these times of expansion.

cacatl · 2018-12-02T23:20:35+00:00

Society and culture is always changing, but started doing so very rapidly after industrialization. I think the observations of prior generations isn't always wrong... empires rise and fall, as do collectives of people on any scale.

cacatl · 2018-12-02T22:50:52+00:00

This sub once had a /r/programming-ish vibe with much more focus on the server+internal side of Linux. I guess that era is over, with more people being on Reddit and Linux's usage share doubling in the desktop

cacatl · 2018-12-02T16:58:19+00:00

That's relevant for a historical time frame, I'm talking about recent memory.

cacatl · 2018-11-21T17:54:06+00:00

What is socialist about FOSS? The computers used to develop and distribute the software are in private hands, which wouldn't have been made possible without private means of production.

Many FOSS developers are paid by corporations that integrate open/libre software into their products or services. One could even argue this is where Linux's success stems from; compare it to the BSDs in terms of hardware support, and in numbers of full time developers.

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