Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1.  @iamme659  } is considered normal for Windows users, isn’t it.
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  2. I think the FSF and others have made the point that the Apache licence gives stronger protections against patent trolls than MIT or BSD do.
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  3. Remember they’re not really that “hidden”. On a multiuser system, the existence of a file with a particular name in your home directory betrays the fact that you have used a particular app. That’s a potential invasion of privacy.
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  4.  @mikeonthecomputer  You have to have execute access at least, if you want to share stuff with others. That’s all that’s needed to take a good guess.
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  5. I remember, back when I did an Ubuntu install, turning it into Kubuntu was as easy as “apt-get install kubuntu-desktop”.
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  6. Composting ... for those with a sense of humus.
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  7. I use different licences. I’ve even been using CC licences for Python/shell scripts.
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  8. A glitch in the maglitch in the matrixtrix?
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  9. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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  10. By the way, anybody else notice the “Influencer-Free Zone” T-shirt?
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  11. I could never quite figure out what a “Visual” was supposed to be. I think it’s a screen configuration.
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  12. I see there is a standard Debian package for it, so Debian derivatives like Ubuntu should have it too.
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  13. Any particular ones you can mention?
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  14.  @BrodieRobertson  That was the time of Windows Vista, as I recall.
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  15.  @BrodieRobertson  XP actually (mostly) happened under Gates. Vista was entirely Ballmer’s fault. Do we count that as a success or a failure?
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  16.  @BrodieRobertson  XP’s death was postponed to head off the threat from the Linux netbooks.
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  17.  @BrodieRobertson  One of Ballmer’s many messes.
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  18. Forgetting the program that interpreted the arcane syntax of all those commands--the shell. And the program that allowed that shell to execute--the Unix kernel. Both quite large and intricate pieces of code. So tell me, which “one thing” did each of those pieces do well?
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  19. A “market” is where people trade things with some kind of economic value, e.g. money. People downloading and using Free software does not itself create a “market”, so a phrase like “market share” is meaningless.
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  20. Windows just isn’t profitable for them any more. You can see this because they are putting less investment into it to fix bugs etc. So of course they are looking for ways to cut costs. WSL2 points the way: it seems inevitable that they will replace the old, unwieldy, difficult-to-mainta Windows kernel with a trim, adaptable Linux one at some point.
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  21.  @shaunpatrick8345  The OP was describing Windows that way. Unless you were using the term, what’s the word, ironically ...
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  22.  @shaunpatrick8345  Maybe you should recheck what “contrast” means.
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  23.  @shaunpatrick8345  That difference is there all right, You still haven’t explained what this “monolithic Linux” you were talking about was.
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  24.  @shaunpatrick8345  The Linux systems the rest of us use certainly behave very differently. That’s why I’m curious about the one you claim to use -- why won’t you tell us about it?
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  25.  @shaunpatrick8345  Yes, I have done lots of Linux installs, for myself and my clients. I use it every day, and I make my living from it. That’s why I am completely mystified by your comments. What kind of experience do you have with it?
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  26.  @shaunpatrick8345  See, that’s what I mean. It’s like you come from a Bizarro world where SLS is still king. Or maybe you are still installing Red Hat (pre-RHEL), when it would install a lot of unneeded stuff by default (they stopped doing that a long time ago). Or maybe Ubuntu is like that (I don’t use Ubuntu, so I can’t say). Not that I’m saying you’re lying, but you’re going to need to be more specific about examples before you can be taken seriously. What exactly is this “monolithic Linux” you keep going on about?
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  27.  @shaunpatrick8345  You still haven’t answered the question I keep asking. On Debian or a derivative (even Ubuntu), you can tell the package that your perl executable comes from with a command as simple as dpkg-query -S $(type -p perl) From here, you can trace the dependencies back to find out what needs it. Everything is there for a reason, and if you don’t need that reason, you can remove it.
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  28.  @karibui494  Software is “proven to be stable” until the day it falls over.
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  29. At one time, BSD had the best network stack. Not any more.
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  30. Obviously you need to start a new one.
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  31.  @yanlucasdf  Making proprietary software cross-platform is very expensive and difficult.
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  32. There is the VisionFive 2 from StarFive, which is an SBC very similar to a Raspberry π in price, performance and form factor.
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  33. “Datcord”? “Desafinado”?
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  34. Gues what: those systemd config files let you run any number of external binaries. That’s what makes them so easy to set up.
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  35. SVN initially made a big deal out of the idea of “cheap copies”. Prior VCSes made it difficult to create branches, because they had to keep separate copies of files even if they didn’t change. SVN fixed that problem, but it never managed to solve the issue of, having spawned off a new branch, how do you merge them back again? The one thing Git does better than any VCS is merging of branches. I think Mercurial has been trying to emulate Git on this score. Last I heard, they had made about 4 attempts to implement branching, none of them quite up to Git functionality.
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  36.  @fuseteam  It apparently has builtin “wget” and “curl” commands, which are limited compared to the real things. Even on Linux, it will use its builtins instead of the real commands. Somebody filed a bug report asking for this to be changed. It was rejected, on the grounds that the Linux port had to remain bug-compatible with the Windows version.
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  37.  @princessOfAwkwardness  You can understand why Linux users don’t want to put up with Microsoft’s stupidity.
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  38. Yes, Debian derivatives offer the “debsums” tool, that can verify installed files against the package they came from. And of course packages themselves are signed.
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  39.  @ChristopherCobra  If they can’t keep up with upstream changes, then that’s a “fork”.
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  40.  @ChristopherCobra  A lot of them are failures, yes. The ones that are not, it is mostly because upstream has gone moribund. Certainly not the case with FFmpeg!
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  41.  @schwingedeshaehers  That makes it difficult if you want to share some files with other users.
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  42. Funny how people assume that anything a big company does will automatically be successful. This extends to assuming that, if they haven’t heard of some product from that big company, then it doesn’t exist.
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  43. It’s a traditional Unix thing. I normally get rid of it, because if fsck ever has a need for it, it will recreate it anyway. So I feel it’s just clutter.
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  44. I look at the apt-get(8) man page, and “update” and “upgrade” are right next to each other. It says the first one is to “resynchronize the package index files”, the second one is to “install the newest versions of all packages”. Simple.
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  45. I wonder which one thing you would say the Linux kernel does well. Remember it’s over 20 million lines of code now.
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  46. I can remember when a DMCA takedown was filed against the youtube-dl source code repository on GitHub. That raised a storm of ire, which rapidly led to forks.
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  47. So Slackware has finally adopted PulseAudio ... just in time to see it superseded by PipeWire. Is he going to adopt that? But while PulseAudio does its own process management, PipeWire doesn’t--it leaves that to systemd. So how will he handle that?
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  48. I still enjoy the effects in KDE. I was disappointed to discover the Desktop Cube had been removed some months back, apparently because it was written using old, obsolete OpenGL calls, and needed a rework.
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  49. Unfortunately, it was getting to the point where someone had to speak to him about it. He has tried to do better since then, with mixed results.
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  50.  @JoeBot21  You “can’t say for certain”, and then proceed to do exactly that. If the core is “more coherent and better integrated”, isn’t that the exact opposite of being fragmented among the different variants, as it is?
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