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Urgh, what a horrible page. @johnblood this page is a clusterfuck, hope your ad revenue is nice.
I’m not convinced, the cost of the extension boards is insanely high given what the cost would be to just shove it all on one board and that two of them don’t have active components - you need to purchase the actual e.g. WNIC or SFP module on top, not to mention antennas for wifi
With the super professionally produced video makes it seem even more like crowdfunding fodder to make a buck.
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cz.nic appears to be a non-profit; I’m not familiar with Czech law, but section 46 of their statutes prohibit disbursements to their member base, and it’s an association of legal entities, not a share-based structure. The statutes: https://www.nic.cz/files/nic/doc/Stanovy__20170701_AJ.pdf
So, no “making a buck”; I believe that the people involved are all salaried. cz.nic have been doing good solid open source software work for many years. It honestly looked to me like a fun video put together in the spirit of crowd-funding, relying upon “humor” and editing away anyone going “uhm” or “er”.
I backed the Turris Omnia and am Very Happy with the resulting product, as it’s by far the best home router I’ve owned. It’s things like “actually pushes out software updates with security fixes, in good time” which help keep it that way. So I backed the Mox too, for more ad-hoc use.
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I never really understood the sabayon distribution, its Gentoo for people that can’t install it, or don’t want to spend the time to. For the people that just want to save time, that’s great, but usually Gentoo users, don’t want anything but the bare essentials there use flags have pulled in on there chosen packages. As an ex Gentoo user (probably around 2006-2008) I remember the forums and irc channels just being packed with sabayon users who had installed it, then running into to problems when emerging something else.
I can’t applaud the installer enough as I remember it used to be very easy/efficient to use, however as an ex portage user I didn’t personally enjoy entropy. I would have thought it would have been better to just maintain a Gentoo installer and entropy package separately. I remember back in 2006(ish) Gentoo released a live CD installer (which was awful) and then Sabayon came out with one (I think either just before or just after) that worked perfectly.
Anyway, it’s great to see this project is still around and doing well.
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There are people who would like to use perks that emerge/layman gives them (first class access to application’s source code, build process, etc), or would like to learn Gentoo, but don’t have knowledge or will to install it properly. I’ve used Gentoo in times of Penium4’s and I liked it very much, but the duration of
revdep-rebuildwas simply horrible, updating Firefox or OpenOffice was something that needed to be scheduled over night. So I understand that some people would like to have a system that’s prepared for them, and use Gentoo’s tools for the customization of software they are interested in customizing.
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’90s kids rejoice! Microsoft releases the original Windows 3.0 File Manager source code
Please just link the original release. And tag it
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Go for it! :)
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I’m still betting that this will happen gradually. It makes sense to start with the smaller laptops which are already being beaten by Apple’s current ARM chips.
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My money is on a scaled up ARM for a super-light notebook, followed by requirements that developers start shipping LLVM bitstreams instead of fat binaries. Once that settles down it’ll go into all portables and probably a compute-add-on (or MB-only replacement model) for the 2019 Mac Pro.
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this can’t be the real reason. Would you rather compile for x86 and arm, or would you like to build an entire new architecture and the compile to that new architecture. The cost difference is wild. Obviously they either have something else in mind or they have more dollars than sense.
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I remember in college a classmate was a big openSUSE advocate, so I worked in that system for a while. Felt very different from the Ubuntu world, and I almost never hear of them in general chatter. Good to see they’re still moving forward well
I’ve used openSUSE extensively and think it’s an excellent distribution. It’s also one of the few high quality distributions that still has KDE as a first class citizen rather than an afterthought, with significant testing going into the KDE workspace.
In the past, software.opensuse.org combined with their one-click-install tool in YaST makes it easy to get modern or uncommon software installed.
I think one of the reasons openSUSE doesn’t get featured a lot is because they are the smaller player in the enterprise field (compared to Red Hat) and are eclipsed by Ubuntu in the hobbyist / personal use space.
I have it good authority from a consultancy gig that it’s big in Germany, especially in enterprise.
I was also told this is, at least in part, because of very long support times for old releases. Which is fine for enterprise, but can lead to interesting situations when upgrades would be in order.
I have used opensuse on a pet server for a while. Zypper package manager was very convinient in terms of insight into security updates necessary, reboots necessary upfront before the update. I changed to CentOS later on because the hosting only supported that, and it felt backwards. (I have been a longtime redhat/fedora user)
Personally, I’ve never been able to get into OpenSUSE.