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For a long time, I had no system that would even run Wayland successfully. I always had the wrong video hardware, whether the one quirky intel chipset that it always failed to sync correctly on and they chose to skip, or rather old radeon gpus. Very recently I have found, much to my surprise...

One advantage I feel Arch has is shallow patches. That is, many packages seemed very close to their upstream. Debian maintainers, by contrast, may extensively patch and maintain a debianized version of upstream. This may be more relevant to developers who want to test and integrate what they...

The first time it happened, I was using pbuilder on Debian, a lot. Pbuilder is used to build packages, by first unpacking and installing a apt cache into a chroot, and then unpacking a source tarball, all to the file system, for each and every build, whether the package cache changes or not...

One real possibility for truly experiencing that "good old time" Unix on PDP-11 experience as K&R intended you to would be using simh. http://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_UNIX_v6_in_SIMH https://github.com/simh/simh

NetBSD comes to my mind... Certainly my first "Unix" experience was visiting the then new Sun lab at Berkeley in the 80's, and I think NetBSD remains most true to the original BSD today. But NetBSD today is perhaps not truly like experiencing BSD back then anymore. However, if you picked a very...

You might also want to look at AlpineLinux ;)...

Loss of control of the intel platform began long ago with Intel power management running beneath the regular cores. Special high security computers are often unboxed in a clean (non-network connected) environment and patched before they are deployed by users, and there is a whole special class...

ARM is a risc architecture, too, so risc never went away. A lot of current risc development is now on packing, decoding, and executing multiple "compatible" bit-packed instructions in a single 32 or 64 bit memory word and one instruction cycle, something risc-v was designed around from the...

Indeed, this was why I was an early adopter even of those initial SSD sata drives, painful as that also was at times with sudden brick syndrome...

My packages were popular only among small and highly specialized communities. My most widely used package was GNU Bayonne, https://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/ while a few other GNU packages I introduced, like GNU Common C++, GNU ccscript, GNU ccaudio, and GNU ccrtp were related to this. Even...

I do not use snaps, I do not particularly care to deliver things with snaps, and I have no need to work with them. Flatpaks I have considered for desktop apps, though.

Well, i have family in New Jersey... The best distro to me depends on what I wish to accomplish. One distro I really love because I do a lot of device work (and also for containers), is AlpineLinux, which, yes, is the rare non-gnu Linux distro, as it uses musl libc and busybox userspace. I...

Indeed, perhaps there is a sense of the "hakintosh" community in that, which tried getting MacOS to run on non-mac PC hardware. I do like what I saw of their usability take on gnome, but I don't have any system76 hardware either. If one is a new user, and doesn't happen to have their hardware...

I do like what they did with gnome, but I would expect most of their shell extensions to be usable on other gnome 42 distros. I could imagine re-customizing a stock ubuntu 22.04, for example. Of course, if one is not much into gnome (I love Xfce), then I am not sure how much additional value...

The two are I think related. It's why I find hope in things like Gemini... https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

I always have desired that we have as small a separation between users and developers as is possible, and that we should do more to include even onlookers to make them into active participants and conspirators...

I actually recall my first Linux kernel version was 0.12, and over the decades, I did various things, even producing commercial products with GNU/Linux starting in the mid 90's. I have authored and at times maintained gnu related packages, I had spoken at some Linux conferences, and occasionally...

When they first came out a decade ago I already had a very clear idea of what I would use them for. I built headless telephony servers. I still mostly think about headless projects.