Comment Re:Damn! (Score 1) 161
You know how much bandwidth each Firefox update require?
Comment Sounds reasonable (Score 1) 243
But still not great.
Comment Re:systemd (Score 0) 267
"for variety of reasons". Who are we kidding? It's the fucking systemd by Redhat's Poettering.
Ah yes, systemd. Everything was all fine and well until it came around and screwed everything up. Oh, and it's just a conspiracy anyway to let Red Hat take control over Linux.
I give you 2.11BSD.
1980s Unix, fully up to date. Patches are still actively maintained, one once every year or so.
Completely systemd free, guaranteed!
All you need is a PDP-11, or a PDP-11 emulator.
Go ahead, install it. I dare you to install it!
All you need. No bloaty modern unnessessary cruft that replaces stuff _THAT WORKED_ just fine!
2.11BSD!
Halle freakin lujah!
Comment Re:OpenBSD (Score 1) 267
There is no support for Flash...
There is no need for Flash anymore.
Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? 267
An anonymous reader writes So for a variety of reasons (some related to recent events, some ongoing for a while) I've kinda soured on Linux and have been looking at giving BSD a shot on the desktop. I've been a Gentoo user for many years and am reasonably comfortable diving into stuff, so I don't anticipate user friendliness being a show stopper. I suspect it's more likely something I currently do will have poor support in the BSD world. I have of course been doing some reading and will probably just give it a try at some point regardless, but I was curious what experience and advice other slashdot users could share. There's been many bold comments on slashdot about moving away from Linux, so I suspect I'm not the only one asking these questions. Use-case wise, my list of must haves is: Minecraft, and probably more dubiously, FTB; mplayer or equivalent (very much prefer mplayer as it's what I've used forever); VirtualBox or something equivalent; Firefox (like mplayer, it's just what I've always used, and while I would consider alternatives, that would definitely be a negative); Flash (I hate it, but browsing the web sans-flash is still a pain); OpenRA (this is the one I anticipate giving me the most trouble, but playing it is somewhat of an obsession).
Stuff that would be nice but I can live without: Full disk encryption; Openbox / XFCE (It's what I use now and would like to keep using, but I could probably switch to something else without too much grief); jackd/rakarrack or something equivalent (currently use my computer as a cheap guitar amp/effects stack); Qt (toolkit of choice for my own stuff). What's the most painless way to transition to BSD for this constellation of uses, and which variety of BSD would you suggest?
Stuff that would be nice but I can live without: Full disk encryption; Openbox / XFCE (It's what I use now and would like to keep using, but I could probably switch to something else without too much grief); jackd/rakarrack or something equivalent (currently use my computer as a cheap guitar amp/effects stack); Qt (toolkit of choice for my own stuff). What's the most painless way to transition to BSD for this constellation of uses, and which variety of BSD would you suggest?
Comment Re: Go back in time 5 years (Score 0) 581
Why do you want to remove it? Seriously, what will you loose by using systemd? Is it performance? Is it stability? In what way will your systems run worse with systemd than without it?
Comment Re: Go back in time 5 years (Score 1) 581
I've used their "self-support" subscriptions at times when all I wanted was the bits.
Comment Re:GNOME toolki? nope GIMP Toolkit (Score 1) 89
According to the story you just commented on they apparently care quite a lot about cross-platform support since they want people to help them with it.
Comment Re:GNOME toolki? nope GIMP Toolkit (Score 1) 89
Well, except that in this case the entire story is that they want help making it work great on non-Gnome platforms.
Comment Re:help them (Score 2) 89
An API is not removed just because it's deprecated. It just means that you are discouraged to use that function in new code, and that it *might* be removed in a later version. This is not uncommon in minor versions and you typically wait for a major version until you actually remove them, to preserve ABI compaitibility.
Comment Re: When will FreeBSystemD be released? (Score 1) 123
Torvalds has said he might rewrite the kernel in VB one day. With
Comment Re:Who cares (Score 1) 77
Didn't they fixed most of the nuisances with 8.1 and 8.1 Update?
Comment Re: Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" (Score 4, Interesting) 525
Sounds reasonable. I don't think they are legally bound to keep that promise, but that they spell it out like that is a good thing. An interesting question that comes to mind is if the promise also covers modified code, it looks like the definition of covered code only covers code published by Microsoft. But still, better than nothing.
Comment Re:The name Gnome has been besmirched since 3.0 (Score 1) 114
They work fine for me on Fvwm, both from 3.12 and 3.14. Must be something weird going on in your environment.
Comment Re:If this were ten years ago, I would have (Score 1) 268
Maybe you should actually take a look at the GTK+ git history. There's a ton of work going into cross-platform support. Recently a lot of work was directed at Adwaita and make sure that it is always included and works great on all gdk backends, especially the win32 backend.
