Linux-libre on m68k
2020-10-05T13:45:29Z via Pumpa To: Public
Added another architecture to my Linux-libre APT repository at https://jxself.org/linux-libre/: The Motorola 68000 series (68020 or later; an MMU is required.)
A friend of mine had been saying they wanted this for a while. This brings the number of supported architectures up to either 10 or 11, depending on how you count. What next?
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2020-09-16T14:44:22Z via Pumpa To: Public
Got my flu shot. Doing my part for herd immunity.
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One family member left to go on that front!
Happy Anniversary
2020-09-01T23:22:08Z via Pumpa To: Public
I just realized that my APT repository for Linux-libre is 9 years old this month. https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
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2020-08-26T13:57:57Z via Pumpa To: Public
I was reading how an asteroid will come close by the planet on election day. It's so Trump can hitch a ride and go back home?
Make it so! 😁
2020-08-26T04:29:10Z via Pumpa To: Public
Ah ha; the moment has arrived. The uncompressed kernel source code for 5.9 has reached 1GB. #linux #bloat
2020-08-15T17:15:38Z via Pumpa To: Public
https://opensource.microsoft.com/
Ah, well at least now they explicitly call out that they're in the "Embrace" phase. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
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2020-07-26T21:18:51Z via Pumpa To: Public
Does anyone plan to watch the launch of Perseverance and Ingenuity on Thursday? I understand the launch will be streamed live via NASA TV. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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Thank you for the heads up
heh, "Perseverance and Ingenuity" sound a bit like a potential sequel to "Pride and Prejudice" ;-)2020-06-30T13:29:57Z via Pumpa To: Public
I like my GNU/Linux distros to be boring and uneventful. Specifically: Releases that happen at 2 - 5 year intervals and where package version numbers are frozen in time on release. This lets me work on the things I want to work on and not spending my time on fixing the distro. Can't remember where I heard this one: "The bleeding edge is stained by the blood of the users."
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Well, you could argue that those boring distributions have that über-stable software thanks to all the testing done by the users of those "bleeding edge" distributions 😅
Agree with both. Good points.2020-06-21T22:24:45Z via Pumpa To: Public
I am currently building Linux-libre for amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, or1k, powerpc, ppc64, ppc64el, and riscv64. Should I add anything else? https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
I don't think I see Itanium in there!! 😎
Facepalm
2020-06-07T14:48:24Z via Pumpa To: Public
Oh, derp. I'm so stupid. I thought "Oh I should apply package updates and then after doing so I stupidly restarted the computer that was doing kernel stuff. As I saw the SSH connection close in the other window I immediately thought "Wait, what? Oh yeah; I was using that computer." Now to start over...
My habit of carefully shutting down every program manually before shutting down or rebooting the machine pays off in those situations 😅
2020-05-18T13:56:37Z via Pumpa To: Public
I'd like to thank someone -- who asked to stay anonymous -- with donating 2 build servers for Linux-libre. You know who you are.
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You're very welcome 😎
2020-05-18T13:44:01Z via Pumpa To: Public
It's Monday. Go make a programming language.
2020-05-18T13:16:27Z via Pumpa To: Public
If they love it so much where is the Windows 7 source code that was asked for? :)
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In a vault. M$ "loves" open source software, not free software, because that way they get free labour and continue to hold captive their users.
Number 5 Is Alive?
2020-05-18T03:45:14Z via Pumpa To: Public
An odd sight: A golden number 5 just floated by within view of my window. It was a balloon. Someone must have lost it.
Somewhere, a half-centenarian just got called a nothing.Stayin' Inside
2020-05-17T00:17:15Z via Pumpa To: Public
This made me smile: https://invidio.us/watch?v=nmUXntGlqFI
Stay safe.
2020-04-24T00:45:42Z via Pumpa To: Public
I found 9 old hard drives in a box while moving. They range from 500MB to 80GB. I'm going through them them one by one to see what's on them. First one had nothing on it. Looks to have been reformatted. I'm wiping the drive with GNU Shred because I don't recall what used to be on it. Then repeat.
Puff, the Magic Dragon
2020-03-31T03:08:54Z via Pumpa To: Public
The Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) is super weird in a lovable way. Did you know that Puff, the Magic Dragon lives in ITS? It's like a syslog daemon but in the ITS vocabulary, the idea of a "daemon" is instead called a "dragon" so of course they'd put Puff in there. This is before operating systems got all boring and "professional" and whatnot.
I want more dragons on my GNU! 😡
2020-03-17T00:58:27Z via Pumpa To: Public
This is so sad: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/03/16/1755209/windows-10-now-runs-on-1-billion-devices
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Depressing...
2020-03-17T00:37:27Z via Pumpa To: Public
I bought 4 pounds of peanut butter (about 1.81kg for you metric people.) Is that crazy?
