We're working on it!

-adrian@freebsd.org

It's not dead, it's still showing up in weird places you don't run linux/freebsd in embedded RTOSes which borrow the freebsd networking/wifi stack.

Also PPC64 BE may be dead from the current generation of openpower chips for the bare metal hardware, but not from the VM side. There's a weird reason there's still PPC64BE and it's due to a large three letter company...

In my high-school photography class the kids had a variety of cameras, bought new or used. A couple of the students had Argus C3 cameras, bought used at a camera store (remember those?). One of the photo assignments was to take a deliberate double-exposure and, for that, everyone was borrowing the Argus cameras because they were the easiest to shoot a double-exposure with and have perfect registration.

Years ago some regulation or other required cable TV companies to show locally produced content. And that's how we ended up with the obscure upper TV channels airing blue haired old ladies baking cookies, video of the recent archery club competition, and - my favorite - the program put on by the local Commodore Amiga club.

As a lawyer would say "not suitable for the purpose sold".
For a story about how Oxide avoided them, see "Holistic boot", at https://rfd.shared.oxide.compu...

["Really quite horrid" is British for "<expletive deleted/> piece of <expletive deleted/> junk"]

Read the book, "The Poison Squad", by Deborah Blum. It tells of the thirty year battle against food adulteration & misleading labeling fought by Dr. Harvey Wiley at the end of the nineteenth century. Bottles of whiskey on store shelves which contained no whiskey at all, milk laced with formaldehyde, even some packages of spices like black pepper had ground, toasted coconut shells added.

Anyway, proper, truthful food labeling is a fight that goes back further than most folks realize.

Librarians have a list of books in print: if someone asks for one that isn't in print, they can say "it's out of print if it exists", and/or "it hasn't been printed yet", ditto.. Followed by "did chatgpt tell you about it? If it did, you need to tell it to not to tell you fibs". (:-))

The "minimum" spec is specified to run the game at 1080p low at 30 fps with upscaling.

The "recommended" spec is specified to run the game at 1400p medium at 60 fps with upscaling.

30 FPS isn't playable. It hasn't been for a decade. And at 1080p? What a clusterfuck.

Even unobservant parents don't deserve to have a child commit suicide, no matter how much you feel the right to judge them.

For those with an interest the book, "The Lunatic Express", by Charles Miller tells the saga of the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria railway. If you saw the movie, "The Ghost and the Darkness", that bridge they were building was one small piece of the Mombasa... railway. An interesting book of engineering, rail history, and British imperialism.

If you search for the book don't confuse it with another book of the same title by Carl Hoffman (which is also an excellent book, btw).

Well, there was United Linux, a project with the goal of becoming the standard Linux distro. That was way back just after the turn of the century. That project fractured & died pretty quickly. I always liked their logo, though.

Your question is a good one, and valid. Red Hat have had the chance to become the "Standard Linux" (see the history of Scientific Linux & Centos for examples) more than once but, judging by their behavior, that's not what they want to be.

Admittedly a bit late now but you might have a look at the Debian 13 release notes.

https://www.debian.org/release...

Debian 13 Trixie released today.

Thanks, Debian people.

That can't happen

The SailGP sailboat racing teams run identical boats. The F50s are even all made in the same shop. That sets them apart from other racing games. In addition, all of the telemetry (and there's a lot) of each boat is available to all teams.

The goal is to distill everything as much as possible so that only the skill of the sailors makes the difference.

If you saw the movie, "Tenet", the sailing scene took place onboard an F50. With only a three person crew but, hey, it's a movie...

Anyway... enough about sailboat racing - and now back to our regularly scheduled programming...