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mforney
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Comment #48395547
I followed the code path when you change the cabinet type, and saw it write some values to the DSP based on a 2D array of doubles, one for each cabinet, each with 41 values, and it…
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Comment #48395300
Unfortunately there were no firmware updates for the THR10c, so the only way to get the firmware is to dump it from the device.
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Comment #32466395
git -C /src/oasis pull && samu commit && doas git -C / merge The first command pulls updates from the source repository, the second command builds a new filesystem tree and commits…
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Comment #32462784
Sorry for the confusing wording. I meant that oasis has more similarities to a BSD than a typical Linux distribution. I've updated the README to be a bit clearer.
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Comment #29061516
> A simple way to fix this would be to shift c by 24u, "(c This works for most arithmetic operators, but not shift: "The type of the result is that of the promoted left operand". T…
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Comment #25272165
Yep, you can install firefox via pkgsrc or nix. Due to the complexity of the modern web browser and all of its dependencies, it is unlikely to ever be part of oasis itself.
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Comment #25270523
There is rudimentary hardware acceleration for certain older GPUs that I own in wld (intel at https://github.com/michaelforney/wld/blob/master/intel.c and nouveau https://github.co…
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Comment #25269764
> I was ever so slightly disappointed to see how manual the packaging is, with every .c file listed in each lua script. It looks quite maintenance-intensive. I was worried about th…
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Comment #25269314
I suppose you could argue that, but it is not a package manager in the traditional sense. My main point here is that once you build the system, there is no longer any notion of "pa…
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Comment #25268771
> Statically linking all the OS utilities to their dependency libraries, over and over again? Dear god that sounds awful. Just curious, why does that sound awful to you? Are you wo…
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Comment #25268583
The idea with oasis is to choose smaller software with fewer dependencies that offsets the slightly higher disk usage, as well as to deliberately not have thousands of binaries.
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Comment #25268482
It exists because I wanted a complete system where I could easily experiment with various minimal/alternative software. I wanted this so that I could easily understand and hack on …
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Comment #25268234
Yes, but with the oasis build system this is just a single command to do an incremental build that relinks your binaries and takes a matter of seconds. The user experience is essen…
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Comment #23657707
You bring up some good points here. Here are some of my experiences with these problems when working on oasis (my static linux distro). > 1. symbol collisions -> accidental interpo…
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Comment #23656452
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you asking whether I build my kernel drivers as modules or built-in? Personally, I build my kernels without modules, but I've never heard of th…
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Comment #23656066
I don't think stali has seen any activity in several years. As far as I know, the only completely statically linked Linux distribution that is actively developed is my own project …
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Comment #23655847
Most Linux/musl systems support it. On Alpine, gcc is built with `--enable-default-pie` so all static libraries can be linked into a static PIE. On vanilla gcc (since version 8 whe…