For real. Numbers are strings? Yeah, okay.

YAML is better. UCL porn though. 🥵 Things are getting niche when UCL shows up.

You use Linux because cuz Linux is good.

I use Linux because the BSDs are less popular. I want to get paid and have corporate applications on my desktop.

We are not the same. 😂

That’s not a bad strategy. Just gotta add some leftist politics to the mix.

It can be. It depends on the extension dev.

Armed revolt it is. Pizza first though?🍕

65 to match Social Security.

To run Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or some other FOSS OS?

I’m running Fedora on a refurbished Thinkpad P1 Gen 4, and I’ve had good luck running Linux and the BSDs on higher end refurbished Dell Optiplex, Latitude, and Precision equipment.

Apple hardware is nice, and MacPorts gives me access to the vast majority of my *nix tools.

Shopping for new hardware I’d look at the list below to get Linux preinstalled.

• Thinkpad X1 Carbon
• Slimbook
• System76
• Tuxedo Computers
• Juno Computers
• Starlabs Systems

Or buy refurbed equipment from Dell or Lenovo.

I happen to like the term FOSS and would like to keep it around. It’s catchy.

Definitely time to kick out the corporatists though.

RH doesn’t allow sharing of the spec files which generate the RHEL rpm packages. The program’s code is still under whatever license it is licensed under.

Besides all the RHEL code is public and upstream in CentOS, which makes more sense anyway.

The Nvidia drivers from rpm fusion are one of the third party repos Software with prompt people to enable on the first time it’s opened.

Flathub is enabled by default now. I want to say F37 enabled it by default.

There are better options then Canonical.

OpenSUSE is backed by SUSE, and Fedora is backed by Red Hat. SUSE and Red Hat are both for-profit companies, and both are better FOSS citizens.

Debian isn’t that vanilla. Debian packages are well known to carry Debian specific patches.

It’s something to think about.

Gentoo will probably be better if you’re using AUR, and Gentoo recently started shipping binary packages which can be mixed and matched with compiled software. 😄

Me too buddy. Me too.

I once had a C# dev tell me they couldn’t run JavaScript because they didn’t have Java installed.

Bibi needs a mustache.

Going to start a change.org petition, and maybe this is one thing the WH will press him on.

😳 For a second there, I thought they had guns. 😮‍💨 Also, good thing it’s BMW not Toyota.

Wikipedia says Ultrix was VAX, and OSF/1 and Tru64 Unix were Alpha.

That was the Unix wars of the ‘80s.

Linux started in ‘92 as a hobby project to create a x86 desktop Unix clone. Most Unices were tied to expensive proprietary hardware which most people couldn’t afford, but x86 equipment was fairly common.

There was 386BSD project which had the objective of porting BSD Unix to x86, but they were sued by AT&T. In the end, AT&T was using more BSD code then BSD was using Unix code.

The lawsuit chilled use of BSD code, and a young CS students decide to write a kernel from scratch rather then fork a BSD.

About the same time Linux was first released, IBM was looking for a Unix-like OS to sell on its x86 servers. The idea was, companies would get started on the low cost x86 servers and graduate to the expensive Power AIX servers. Linux fit the requirements, and it was under the GPL which meant competitors would have to release any changes they distributed to clients as a bonus.

Linux did not immediately kill the propriety Unixes. It wasn’t until after the dot com bubble burst (~2000) that Linux really started taking market share. The tech companies needed to shed expenses, and an easy way was to ditch the expensive Sun equipment running Solaris in favor of commodity x86 running Linux.

The GPL played a role since it meant people distributing Linux needed to release their changes. Linux distros can be fairly different though, so I’m not sure how much of a part it played.