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For a long time, I had no system that would even run Wayland successfully. I always had the wrong video hardware, whether the one...

One advantage I feel Arch has is shallow patches. That is, many packages seemed very close to their upstream. Debian maintainers, by...

The first time it happened, I was using pbuilder on Debian, a lot. Pbuilder is used to build packages, by first unpacking and...

One real possibility for truly experiencing that "good old time" Unix on PDP-11 experience as K&R intended you to would be using simh...

NetBSD comes to my mind... Certainly my first "Unix" experience was visiting the then new Sun lab at Berkeley in the 80's, and I think...

You might also want to look at AlpineLinux ;)...

Loss of control of the intel platform began long ago with Intel power management running beneath the regular cores. Special high...

ARM is a risc architecture, too, so risc never went away. A lot of current risc development is now on packing, decoding, and executing...

Indeed, this was why I was an early adopter even of those initial SSD sata drives, painful as that also was at times with sudden brick...

My packages were popular only among small and highly specialized communities. My most widely used package was GNU Bayonne...

I do not use snaps, I do not particularly care to deliver things with snaps, and I have no need to work with them. Flatpaks I have...

Well, i have family in New Jersey... The best distro to me depends on what I wish to accomplish. One distro I really love because I do...

Indeed, perhaps there is a sense of the "hakintosh" community in that, which tried getting MacOS to run on non-mac PC hardware. I do...

I do like what they did with gnome, but I would expect most of their shell extensions to be usable on other gnome 42 distros. I could...

The two are I think related. It's why I find hope in things like Gemini... https://gemini.circumlunar.space/