pmk

pmk , vor 10 Tagen

Their "dominance" is the choice of the distributions. Gnome is opinionated, and I respect that they follow their vision. To me this is free software working as intended, people are free to fork Gnome if they want something that the devs don't want. And apparently, many distributions think Gnome should be the default. Maybe it shouldn't, but that's up to the distros to decide.

pmk , vor 20 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 20 Tagen)

People seem to think that those who choose permissive licences don't know what they're doing. Software can be a gift to the world with no strings attached. A company "taking" your code is never taking it away from you, you still have all the code you wrote. Some people want this. MIT is not an incomplete GPL, it has its own reasons.

For example, OpenBSD has as a project goal: "We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions. We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage companies to use whichever pieces they want to."

pmk , vor 19 Tagen

It's fair, but different people have different ideas about what they want, and in the end it's the authors right to decide what is fair for their code. An unconditional gift is also fair.

pmk , vor einem Monat

Back in the day, find required that you added "-print" to actually print out the results in the terminal. That was bad UX, and now -print is the default. But.. following some syntax like supplying path as first argument for find is necessary to not create ambiguity in some cases, and enforcing it makes it more readable imho.

pmk , vor einem Monat

Is the breaking change going to happen in stable mid release cycle? Or at a major version upgrade?

pmk , vor einem Monat

I think you actually convinced me to start using OpenBSD again.

pmk , vor einem Monat

OpenBSD works surprisingly well as a desktop, probably because the devs use it themselves. As long as you have supported hardware that is.

pmk , vor einem Monat

Free cost and free as in freedom to understand and modify the code. I also think it's a beautiful way of doing things. We also have Wikipedia and Openstreetmap. The internet has a tremendous potential for collaboration, people doing things because they want to, for the benefit of everyone.

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

Consider this: when you speak the listeners know what you mean based on the rest of the sentence. When you write you give the reader the intended word through spelling. People who read will see your words and assume you really meant "then" instead of "than", and the sentence will make little sense.
The words "I" and "eye" sound similar, but if you write "eye" I will read a sentence first thinking you are trying to say something about an eye, then when it breaks down, go back and find the issue.
End that my friend is less then eye-deal for comprehension.

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

And before that, black text printed on white continuous form paper.

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

Check out the neat themes of UNIX legends:
https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

If you look at the Lascaux cave paintings, there's great potential for a soft earthy color theme imho. Black and red on off-white, similar colors as medieval vellum with black ink and vermillion red/orange.

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

To be fair, iirc, macOS is certified UNIX despite having the XNU kernel which stands for X is Not UNIX.

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD once said: "Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix."

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

På riktigt? Vad kommer efter dnf då? Jag tänkte att dnf5 var det nya.

pmk , vor 2 Monaten

And Plan9 will take the place of BSD, and TempleOS will take the place of Plan9?

pmk , vor 3 Monaten

These days Debian ship with non-free firmware in the default installer, so laptops without ethernet isn't a problem.