Sounds great. I can install Linux on it, right? That doesn't break a EULA or anything?

Similar to the NetBSD philosophy... It's not right because it works, but if it is right, it works. Or something like that.

Slackware's naming style... is a bit of an amusement. I remember having some bundle called Slackware 96 once... and later Slackware 3.5... and some years later after all the other distros were releasing a new Major version number every year or so, Pat felt people were judging his Slackware software on its low version number so skipped a bunch of major version numbers to catch up. There was no Slackware 5 or 6. Then for a few years kept up with making many more Major version number updates rather than lots of Minor/point releases.

Slackware particularly appealed at a time when I wanted to learn Linux/Unix. The fun was the tinkering with the OS itself. I have never broken so badly an OS as some of those early Slackware installs. Trying to make libc6 run alongside libc5.... and trying to replace libc with an optimised version for pentium class cpu in a running system.... Okay, so there were some wasted hours.

It was pretty unique for having most config files for the software in the default state as it came from upstream, with a bare minimum of patches to make packages work with the system. Obviously the aim was for local source packages to have zero local edits and compile time cludges. Other systems would make a huge amount of local changes to upstream code to make it work with their systems, and in my opinion anyway, the best way was to approach upstream with your own developers to make sure what was coming downstream was by default somewhat sane. Obviously a small outfit like Slackware couldn't do that, but I believe that's the approach Redhat eventually took. Eventually doing things the Slackware way requires more patches than just going with PAM or Systemd, but by then they've matured and become a good call anyway.

I haven't used it for a while. Do you still have to edit XF86Config by hand to get the mouse to work?

One of the reasons many will just buy a small sack of wood from a garage forecourt rather than keep a store and rotate stock. The ruling is intended to make sure that these handy bags of wood are dried before sale. There are many people with log burners who as stated have never paid for wood. Not just woodland scavengers, but also people who live on river sides or even facing a beach know that a good storm or tide is time to take the wheelbarrow out with a saw and get some winter fuel.

Even if they do have the technology to easily target and destroy a drone, do you really want to demonstrate its capability or do you want its abilities kept secret? It is very useful for the enemy to know at what range their drones can be shot down, and at what range they can be targeted and detected. If they know this, they can also use it to build a better drone for using specifically against known anti-drone systems, and develop operational routines that keep their drones from being intercepted.

I assumed he meant that if Discord goes to Microsoft, then the open-source community will step up and make an Open Discord-like platform that is 95% as good. I just can't tell with the comments these days. Was it sarcasm?

As for the Linux client... well they do a Linux client for Microsoft Teams. I was surprised myself when I had a Teams meeting to attend and it was there to download from Microsoft, and even more surprised when it worked perfectly, first time, webcam and microphone.

I expect it is the remaster/update for the new consoles.

At the time there was a competing standard which did something similar to the Direct3D part of DirectX, called OpenGL. Microsoft was a partner in the development of OpenGL, and it was cross platform. Some of the first 3D graphics accelerators for consumer PCs used proprietary standards based on cut down OpenGL. It was OpenGL for professionals, and 3DGL (I think?) and later DirectX for games IIRC. The key thing they had with DirectX is that it wasn't cross-platform and was considered easier to work with than OpenGL.

Before DirectX, you had to hope that a game developer had coded support for your particular 3D card, joystick, soundcard or controller.

Errare humanum est. It seems the fad of Rust is the ability to quickly produce code that by language design has restricted the frequency and quality of errors. Obviously making something foolproof we can expect to introduce a better fool.

I did the number for my country. Assuming there is a ventilator or oxygen for every bed, and the beds aren't already full, at 10% daily infection increase we have 65 days to go. At 15% infection rate we have 45 days. Sadly almost 90% of the beds are already occupied. This cuts us down to 41 days and 28 days at 10% and 15% daily infection increases.

I believe the people needing intensive care required ventilators to help them breath, and those needing serious care required masks with high levels of oxygen to make up for reduced lung efficiency. The sensation is somewhat like drowning for those needing these levels of care.

Most people with the mild symptoms will recover in around 2 weeks. People requiring a hospital visit tend to take 3-6 weeks to get over it.

So, if you know the capacity of the hospitals, the number of ventilators and breathing sets, you can work out how many people can be ill if 10% of them are going to be needing a visit to hospital to see them through. Work out the numbers for your country. When do those numbers overlap, given your current infection numbers and rate of increase?

I have observed the increase in infections for this virus is around 10% a day, even though China has managed to get it under control with a complete lock-down of the worst regions. Infections in the rest of the world should surpass China's infections in around 10 days.

Hardware Abstraction Layer.

I noticed this when driving through the Netherlands, that I had been listening to a Dutch radio station for quite some time and hadn't realised they were not talking English. The language has the same pace, the same peaks and troughs and they laughed and intoned things in just the same way. It sounds more like UK English than most American English in those ways.

You can't go in too hard with the power grinder though, as you'll destroy the temper. In fact, I would never go into anything I want to make sharp with a proper grinding disc in the grinder. Even a sanding disc, you have to take care. And then to put a proper sharp edge on the thing, that takes even more care. I guess it makes a difference whether it is a really fine wood carving chisel, or something you are going to use to split bricks or sever rivets.

Jaguar might be more reliable now, but Land/Range Rovers still seem to struggle to get high mileage without having to replace expensive things such as transmissions and engines.