pmk

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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just feel that it's technically wrong to call it x64. x86 is the architecture. The x belongs there, so x86-64 makes more sense, but not "x64". It's a marketing term, but it still bothers me.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Isn't "x64" still an x86 architecture?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Peter Sunde said that the show is not a fair description of what happened and that it's missing the focus on what was important.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of Rob Pikes paper from the year 2000.
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

If we want to do something radically different, there's always gopher and gemini browsers.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

How do you decide what to archive, and what is the long term plan? If Annas goes down it can be pieced together again? Or is it served to users now too?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

The archive team sounds interesting!

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What can an ordinary user do at this point that would help?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

It's more that changes can be made with coordination across the OS, with a shared vision and goal. Linux distros are primarily integration projects, putting together the components from other peoples projects. BSDs are in control of the base OS project as one coherent project.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

I see what you mean now. I thought you meant as in upstream/downstream.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tumbleweed is not a derivative of Leap.

 

A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.

 

For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

 

I'm not proposing anything here, I'm curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it's now your desktop computer. That's one vision. ChromeOS has its "everything is in the cloud" vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it's free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

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