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(one of AwesomeWM core dev here) Vicious is getting quite old. We put tons of effort in AwesomeWM to be perfectly backward compatible all the way back to the 3.5.0 API (ok, 4.0 had…

Debian (and thus Ubuntu) has full support for automated installs since the 90's. It's built into `dpkg` since forever. That include saving or generating answer to install time ques…

It was tried before (gimpshop)

Well, the stories goes that's actually an Al Capone gift to society

Not really. Maemo/N900 and OpenMoko existed and worked well enough. The problem I think is more than Meego/Mer/Moblin was supposed to be equally open, but a customer ready version …

A lot of vendor tools (think firmware flasher, diagnostic tools) for older hardware used DOS boot images (CD, floppy, USB, netboot, etc) because it gives lower level access to hard…

The phone part is no different. It's easy to run your own FreeSWITCH or Asterisk server at home and connect a cellphone using Wireguard. It costs ~0.5$ US per month to get nearly u…

I am pretty sure material science went a long way. No need to put a foot of lead behind the reactor. The space race provided quite a bit of funding toward lightweight protection. I…

There was plans in the 50s/60s to have a fleet of nuclear aircraft staying airborne for 2 months. That job ended up being taken by submarines, some staying in mission for 6 months.…

It actually make some sense if their official explanation for the purpose of the vehicle is true. If the main reason for the X-37b is to bring material to orbit and study the long …

> I’ll be left stranded if the rest of the Linux ecosystem moves on. There is no such things. Unless they remove xorg from the repository, then it's just an entry in the session lo…

> While I have you here, do you think 4.4 is still years away? I/we were never very fond of releases to be honest. All it does is to fragment the number of version in the various L…

> It's a little buggy in the 4.3 tree I was working on fixing some of those bugs last weekend. Can you clarify which annoys you the most so I can add unit test later this evening? …

(AwesomeWM co-maintainer here) From the point of view of tiling, Sway is an i3 clone for wayland. For AwesomeWM as a programming sandbox WM, it is much tougher to get something ide…

It's using DHT like BitTorrent magnet links to find people using public keys.

I think one important bit of context that may be missing here is that Hydro Quebec is technically also a public research (graduate) university. You can get PhD there when working o…

To be fair, "old hardware" is kind of frozen in time by definition. DSL is what it is. If you want to play with hardware with 32mb of ram, it does what it does. It isn't really an …

It was 3% as long as you were part of the conspirator and make it extra painful to everybody else. What the conspirators wanted out of this was to control the number of players so …

There was a (government) public investigation / shame campaign a few years ago ago the construction industry in Montreal, Canada. One of the person who testified in exchange for no…

For the record, I am not saying something is wrong with Alma. I am saying if Rocky says they need time to get it right, then I see this as a good sign. About `mock`, the problem is…

Would you rather have `.rpm`s build by someone on the command line using `rpmbuild` or `mock` or something built by a CI with proper bootstraping and "nearer" to reproduceable buil…

Qt (the legacy Qt::Widget variant) is quite productive for quick and dirty GUIs. You can do 95% of basic dialogs in QtDesigner and then connect the signals to your code and vice ve…

AppImages are only as self-contained as the author put effort into making them self-contained. There's also upper limits to how self-contained they are. While some terminal and bit…

A PC is ideal as long as there is only one. Once you start adding machines, it is time to move to a rack. Otherwise you end up with a giant ball of wires. Racks have rails like dra…

Yeah, if you started using `git-master` around ~7 years ago, it hasn't broken ever since. The last breaking release was v4.0 in 2016, but it was in development for years before tha…