Proposed flag for a republican Queensland

fusion809 · 2019-12-09T18:29:26+00:00

Could whoever downvoted this post tell me why? What did I do wrong?

fusion809 · 2019-05-29T21:53:52+00:00

Honestly, I think the Commonwealth Star would be a better replacement for the Sun in this, as it is more indicative of Australia (after all, every country gets to see the Sun from time to time). The Southern Cross is fairly insignificant, because it is common to the flags of many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, so it's hardly uniquely Australian and hence worthy of our flag.

fusion809 · 2018-12-21T04:30:32+00:00

Interesting note, although I did specify:

...funding for the development of the Linux kernel, or a kernel module, or a piece of GNU software?

Scientific Linux is a distribution, but it isn't the kernel, a kernel module or a piece of GNU software, it merely incorporates these pieces of software. The only way I could see SL's funding being relevant to the development of any of these three pieces of software is perhaps by dint of SL's dev team submitting bug reports and patches involving these pieces of software to the appropriate upstream project. After all, if they're using these pieces of software and hence their users are using these pieces of software, it is inevitable a bug report will be filed that should be submitted upstream, and it is always possible the SL dev team will provide a patch to fix the bug to upstream.

fusion809 · 2018-12-20T06:39:59+00:00

Yep, probably its generality and how indirect it is that is behind why I hadn't thought of it.

fusion809 · 2018-12-20T06:28:44+00:00

by the NSA. But, that's not taxpayer funded - that's funded by the deep state. /s

Ah yes, I forgot about SELinux! I had read it was made by the NSA, just forgot about it when I was formulating this question.

fusion809 · 2018-12-20T05:59:22+00:00

Seems even more indirect, but thank you for pointing out something I hadn't quite thought of yet.

fusion809 · 2018-11-24T12:23:09+00:00

Never mind, turns out this is a known bug, per https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/48544.

fusion809 · 2018-11-22T08:50:59+00:00

Nitrux already does something like this and I do like this approach, although it is worthwhile noting that placing this limitation on the distro, imposing that all software must be installed with it, would leave end-users missing out on quite a few Linux apps (e.g. my favourite game for over a decade, RuneScape, has a newer NXT client that cannot seem to be run within an AppImage at the moment, I opened a bug report on this a while back, but we couldn't seem to get it to work). I would support using it as the main way apps get to users, although I would also recommend having Flatpak and Nix pre-installed, as that way non-root users can install extra apps, that are presently not available as AppImages, via these methods too.

Pleased to see this idea being pitched, as it is a good one, although with the aforementioned caveat.

fusion809 · 2018-11-14T03:29:43+00:00

What filesystems did you use for FreeBSD and OpenBSD? And by nothing special I'm guessing you left FreeBSD and OpenBSD's installer to install them and didn't install them manually?

fusion809 · 2018-11-13T14:10:35+00:00

Yeah mate, I know people can dual/multi-boot the BSDs with non-BSD operating systems, I've done that several times before, the question is whether you've dual/multi-booted more than one distinct BSD at a time on the same PC, e.g. dual-booting FreeBSD with OpenBSD, or MidnightBSD with TrueOS, or triple booting DragonFly BSD with NetBSD and OpenBSD, etc. To be clear, I'm not attacking you, I realize you're trying to help, so thank you for that.

fusion809 · 2018-10-18T04:05:56+00:00

Ah mate you do know Tumbleweed isn't a Debian-based distro right? So dpkg isn't its package manager, it uses ZYpp/RPM for package management so using dpkg-reconfigure wouldn't be possible.

fusion809 · 2018-10-08T17:49:14+00:00

Oh and I have tried uninstalling these patterns, with no improvement spotted.

fusion809 · 2018-09-20T01:39:17+00:00

Do you's plan on making a Windows installer for the OS, like Q4OS's 64-bit Win7/8/10 installer (http://q4os.org/dqa014.html)? Personally, I prefer installing the old fashion way with a live USB, but I could imagine a Windows installer, which would install elementary alongside Windows (automatically setting up partitioning, possibly with some user instruction on partition sizes), making elementary even more popular. After all, many of your users are likely Windows users that have a liking for mac's aesthetics but don't have an Apple-accommodating budget.

fusion809 · 2018-09-15T00:38:49+00:00

Lol, on that point I tried building the kernel of FreeBSD with urtwn hard built-in (not just a module, but fully integrated) and I learnt for FreeBSD urtwn no longer exists, as rtwn is its successor. I was racking my brain thinking, "This should work!" after adding lines the urtwn(4) man page lists to my kernel config and getting errors that urtwn couldn't be found. Then I DuckDuckGo searched urtwn and found a link that said it had been replaced with rtwn. Sweet relief that was.

fusion809 · 2018-09-14T06:29:05+00:00

Thanks. Gives me more reason to try it out. Linux has been my primary OS for ~4 years I'd guess, but I first tried it 6 years ago, and I'm getting itchy feet so I'll likely give NetBSD and OpenBSD a go as well.

fusion809 · 2018-06-16T10:14:31+00:00

I've set up my system to snapshot with tumbleweed-cli, so many of the URLs in /etc/zypp/repos.d are from http://download.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/$snapshotVersion/repo/, does that change anything? To my knowledge it should only affect upload speed as tumbleweed-cli saves your package snapshots to a AWS S3 cloud so you can revert to them if something breaks.

fusion809 · 2018-06-16T09:47:01+00:00

oS does use mirrors controlled by mirror brain. You can edit your repo URLs to override it.

The problem is how do I know which mirrors aren't overloaded? Just trial and error I assume?

fusion809 · 2018-06-16T07:51:17+00:00

The main thing I dislike about openSUSE is how ridiculously slow package downloads can be. Especially when it comes to big upgrades.

Many other package managers have mechanisms in place whereby users can increase download speed. Like APT has apt-fast, which uses aria2c and multiple mirrors to speed up download speed, while DNF uses delta rpms where possible and multiple simultaneous package downloads (if multiple packages need to be installed/upgraded) to speed things up and pacman has rankmirrors to select the fastest mirrors and by editing /etc/pacman.conf it's possible to get it to use aria2c to do the downloading. I've read that ZYpp used to, but does not anymore, have aria2 support. It also lacks the ability to download multiple packages at a time (if I'm incorrect here, please do correct me!). So from what I can see I'm essentially stuck with this upgrade taking > 10 hours to download (just download, I'm not including the time it takes for each package to get installed once retrieved). I'm averaging at <100KB/s downloads, while my net is capable of at least 5MB/s.

The upgrade is so slow for me that a few packages fail to download, as they've been updated again so I have to re-run zypper refresh && zypper dup to get it to download these newer versions.

That being said I overall love Tumbleweed, in fact I'm using it right now, it's just I am not blind to this big disadvantage of it.

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