Recent content by smeg_it

I'll definitely try these!

Do you know if they have removed pages? It seem like they have

Thanks for all the replies. Again, not asking about the rankings. I am just not finding the distopages like I used to for Yeah, just thought they used to include a normal distro page for most any distro. I could be wrong, but it used to be a great place to start, even for a more historic distro...

While I appreciate replies, I don't really know how this relates to what I was asking about. Well, let me clarify. I made not have been clear enough. I'm not talking about the top 100 list. I'm talking about distos that aren't even found in distrowatch by search. I used to find pretty much any...

Did distrowatch change hands? It seems less useful than it once was. I've been using it since at ~2008-10 (somewhere in there). Please don't get me wrong, it's still very useful and I'm very glad it's there, but I'm surprised by distros I'm not finding there. I never used to have that issue...

Thanks! yes, my use case is extremely limited, currently, so I have no idea what's better on a wider scope. I will try ImHex ;)

Ok found it ;P hexedit --color is what I was looking for. Now to alias ;)

It seems both hexedit and hexcursor do this. From the basic apt install on my ubuntu hex edit seems to just bold were you are in the Ascii when moving through the hex. hexcursor uses an underline (again on mine). At some point, I need to see if those "highlights" are configurable. I miss seeing...

I used to use hex editors much more often. Not to edit, but to view all the non-printable characters. I still try this with bvi but at one point, one of the editors showed the corresponding cursor location from hex to ascii. It was nice! I tried bvi, then I downloaded the source for the newest...