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lproven
8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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recent activity (4,928 total)
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This is _precisely_ the sort of thought the company wishes to cultivate: * That they don't care about Free Software (they do, it is a hated enemy). * That they are ignoring the FOSS world (they&#…
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This. It's been MICROS~1's primary tactic against competitors for at least 1/3 of a century now and nothing has changed: now the company just _says_ it likes FOSS. Does Windows set up d…
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Interesting. I have most of this and various toolchains installed as standard on my work boxes, so for me, for instance, to get a preview pain in Atom, I just added 2 packages and the Atom module and …
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Yup. AsciiDoc was implemented in Python. AIUI, the project got neglected or abandoned, so someone re-implemented it in Ruby to create AsciiDoctor -- same markup, different rendering engine. Some like …
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In case you did not know, Microsoft used to offer Internet Explorer on Sun Solaris & HP-UX, back in the days before Linux was so big.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Ex…
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This is interesting -- I've seen many references and discussions of this, but this is the original that they were talking about. Thanks for the link. So, stupid question: Given that
[1] one of th…
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Jeez, that's quite a list. There are other, simpler ways of doing a lot of that stuff. If you want accented characters, enable the Compose key. E.g.
https://www.setphaserstostun.org&#x…
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When I read this piece, apart from the generally terrible writing, the poor spelling and grammar, I initially wondered if it was a spoof from GPT-3 or some other bot. When I decided it wasn't, I …
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I think perhaps you mean install Ubuntu Server or use the netinstall ISO?
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So I have been informed, in some detail, over on Lobste.rs. I am glad to hear it. I like this little OS and I want to see it survive!
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It's an implementation detail of one type of OS. I am interested in the bigger picture. See my FOSDEM talk for more: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/69099.html …
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Unix is Unix is Unix. Compared to the diversity that is out there even now, and far more so, to that which _was_ out there 25y ago, all Unixes are the same OS, yes. They are all one because the differ…
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[Author here] "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and w…
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[Author here] I have RISC OS running on a Pi, and it's not the first one I've had, either. https://twitter.com/lproven/status/1310304554395860996 http:/&#x…
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[Author here] OK, I will give you that one. :-) But they are at least related concepts, no?
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Did you read the blog post? (I wrote it, BTW.) That is more or less what I was arguing for, you see.
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Both xNix-like. Harvey is Plan 9, which is Unix 2.0. Redox is xNix redone in Rust, I think because they've never seen anything that isn't xNix.
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• linux <- an xNix (DEC PDP-7/PDP-11 OS)
• windows <- modernised VMS (DEC VAX OS, the 32-bit PDP-11)
• macos <- xNix
• freebsd <- xNix
• redox <- experimental, unfinished, no apps,…
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Ahh yes. You know where you are with Office 364.
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Er, no? WINE _replaces_ Windows completely. Despite the name, it is a sort of emulator, really. DOSemu runs real actual DOS in a kinda-sorta dedicated VM.
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So this is basically the equivalent of a non-dedicated Netware 2.x server, then? Netware 2 was an 80286 OS. (DOS was an 8086 OS.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare#NetWare_28…
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This was the subject of a fascinating talk at FOSDEM in 2018:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_fr... The slides are here:
https://ar…
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ISTM it could have benefited from a mention of Joyent's SmartOS, and also perhaps that Plan 9 addresses a number of these issues.
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There are other such things: • http://morpheus.2f30.org Perhaps, arguably: • https://k1ss.org There were more: • http://web.archive.org/web/20141218065305&…