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Seamonkey (which I'm using to write this) is one option. Built for all platforms, no Mozilla tracking/ad/pocket-partnership nonsense. Unfortunately the team is small and Gecko has …

They removed webstart - which is fundamental to how the apps we use are distributed. I believe that reason alone is why the distributor has stuck to Java 8/OpenWebStart.

Note that Wine runs Windows binaries, whereas what this project aims for is source compatibility. That at least means you aren't at the mercy of ABI versioning, though you wouldn't…

I find the creators livelihoods lines to be attention grabbing and muddying the waters about what this argument should be about. The Netflix exemption should be available to all ap…

The context for that is in the previous sentence: > [...] you get an out-of-the-box, slick and capable computer that an idiot could set up and get running in minutes. He's praising…

> * It drastically improves the upgrade process -- I never need to look at a 3-way diff of /etc/init.d/apache2 again lol. I had to trash an Arch Linux box because it failed to upgr…

The post was on 'the good parts' of systemd, so complaining about balance seems unfair. I will call out one aspect that the author deemed a 'good part' as in my experience its a ba…

My main issue with ZFS is the integrated nature - like systemd for filesystems. My 'alternative' for ZFS isn't BTRFS (awful performance characteristics for my workloads) but LVM co…

His comment was more on the wisdom (or otherwise) of running an out of tree filesystem. I think its hard to disagree with him. He went on to say you would never be able to merge th…

This is why FreeBSD rebasing its ZFS fork on ZFS-on-Linux made me so scared for the future of FreeBSD. Their one major advantage over Linux and they didn't have the developers to m…

This guy really doesn't get the point - he's testing an embedded part with 16GB RAM against an overclocked desktop part with 64GB RAM (and a load of the benchmarks are garbage coll…

macOS has always supported case-sensitive filesystems, but the default has always been case-preserving, but not sensitive. A few years ago they added case-sensitivity as a format o…