lproven

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by lproven 5d ago
I disagree on every single point. > There are lots of very good reasons why running small root partitions on Linux desktops is a very bad idea. Go on then: name them. I give root about 2x the space I expect it to take when fully populate
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by lproven 5d ago
I think you're wrong on every single point you make. > Of what distro? Of any distro. I have done such configs with Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, SLE, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Alpine, Arch, you name it. > If you mean that the example co
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by lproven 5d ago
Couple of things this didn't consider. * If you have a small root partition, the default config puts the swap file on there, wasting precious space. * With a partition, it's easier to put swap on a separate physical device, which
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by lproven 5d ago
BTW, I wrote about this for The Register: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/11/digital-rese... I love that it fulfils some of Digital Research's original ambitions. The company planned a
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by lproven 6d ago
As I believe the kids say: Thanks, I hate it. ;-)
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by lproven 6d ago
Very true and an excellent point. There is a fork that doesn't need Google accounts. It's called Fyde OS. I tried it: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2025/08/21/fydeos-offers...
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by lproven 6d ago
He's right. The only modern Linux distro that feels to me like Linux used to feel in the 20th century -- minimal, fast, simple, clean -- is Alpine Linux. I miss the PC version of Raspbian. It was my go-to OS for reviving very old PCs.
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by lproven 7d ago
Q: What do you get when you cross an octopus with a cow? A: An immediate cessation of funding and a stern letter from the Ethics Committee.
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by lproven 7d ago
It's still a Linux distro. Ext4 partitions, glibc, upstart as the init. The GUI is weird but it's just another desktop. I don't use it myself but my wife's laptop does. So, example: it has no video player. Solution: Ctrl
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by lproven 8d ago
> There was no "MIC" input on ZX-Spectrum, not that I know of. Don't be daft. Of course there was. It could save programs onto cassette as well as load them from cassette. The ports are labelled MIC and EAR because that&#x
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by lproven 8d ago
> if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox Someone tried to instigate that on Mastodon recently. It didn't work. https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270 Spread t
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by lproven 8d ago
I haven't thought of that name in decades, but you're right, it really was. :-) GetRight, then DownThemAll, and now, Multithreaded Download Manager: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/mul
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by lproven 8d ago
More recent, a few more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538
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by lproven 8d ago
> I'm still believing that there will be a year of desktop Linux coming. Maybe even sooner than we expect. It started 9 years ago. That's the year ChromeBooks first outsold Macs in the USA. And note, that is by value, not units
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Atari GEM for Linux: a classic graphical desktop with windows, plus 68k emulator(github.com)
2 points by lproven 9d ago|1 comments
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by lproven 13d ago
Earlier, and more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538096
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by lproven 14d ago
You should. It's more complete and has loads of apps now. It fixes the main problems BeOS had.
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by lproven 14d ago
Not soon. https://github.com/rcarmo/haiku-arm64-build
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by lproven 14d ago
You said only: "how people pronounce words ending in that" You did not restrict which people you were talking about, and that's a critical omission. Nobody in my daily life, in real life where I live or on TV or radio, woul
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by lproven 15d ago
FWIW, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438678 (No comments.)
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by lproven 15d ago
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494856
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by lproven 16d ago
> Forever, I'm finding it very entertaining Why thank you! :-) There's reams of it on my late-1990s homepage, which I resurrected and uploaded a few years ago. I did an extremely cursory update but expect plenty
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by lproven 16d ago
Thanks for that! > Also, Irish dialects call it 'haitch'; in Northern Ireland it's apparently a shibboleth distinguishing between Irish-identifying Catholics ('haitch') and British-identifying Protestants ('
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by lproven 16d ago
Aha. I was very vaguely notionally Church of England until age 11, although still had to go to Chapel daily from 12-17. I have never been to Mass and I don't really know what goes on in a Mass. I'm not even sure if Anglicans have
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by lproven 16d ago
Oh my! Well, from faint 30-years-on recollection, it was the end of '96 so I guess I needed to save up for it. Thanks for the correction! Ordinary relatively cheap consumer Matrox cards could be paired up. I couldn't afford a fanc
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by lproven 16d ago
You can always reduce the font size a little so it isn't indented so far?
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by lproven 16d ago
I guess I have mainly met older kiwis! I slightly know Terry Stewart of https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/ from mailing lists, and while I don't follow any Youtube channels as a rule, I used to enjoy his v
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by lproven 16d ago
Before I was a Linux type I was a Windows expert, and when I went freelance in 1996, I built myself a fairly serious NT 4 rig: Pentium II 450, 192MB of RAM (I think), and dual Matrox Millennium cards so I could drive dual 14-15 i
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by lproven 16d ago
> Choosing words that carefully takes some serious dedication. No it doesn't. If you're careful about how you speak and how you write then it takes next to no additional effort at all. I used to do this with all of
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by lproven 16d ago
> They do not enjoy the process Dude, it's a text prediction engine. It can no more "enjoy" a process than a stapler enjoys poking wire through paper. Don't kid yourself. It's the first step down a slip

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