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Having ZFS baked into the installer and fully supported by the project is a huge motivator for using FreeBSD. I know that Linux distros can accommodate ZFS, but it's a fair-weather…

If the economy is profoundly affected by employment conditions going forward, how can housing costs not drop?

Most static site generators offer a Bear Blog theme, including Hugo and Zola. So you can get a self-hosted site that looks and acts like a Bear Blog, but run it yourself with a fre…

The license disallows use of the software for what it is intended: setting up a multi-user blogging system.

I used to have this book and loved it. Kid me could never have built this. Adult me couldn't either, but the idea that somebody could was pretty extraordinary.

Golang's not so secret weapon

This has bitten me many times

Puppy was my first distro. Loved it back in the day. I discovered so many great apps through Puppy, including Geany, ROX Filer and gFTP.

If I had a nickel for every SO thread that came up in my Google searches that could have answered my question if only the SO moderators had allowed it to be answered, I'd be able t…

This book was my World Wide Web as a kid

Alma also has a live ISO.

> Pay for RHEL or use Debian In this climate, that is a solid philosophy

The decisions seem rushed, not borne out of consensus, and not well thought out

This exactly

My 2011 iMac is screaming fast with Debian Linux.

Labor unions seem to put that kidney dialysis measure on the ballot for every election, then they are outspent by more than 100-to-1 by the kidney dialysis companies on TV ads, and…

I'm a big Unison fan, but it can be finicky. You need the same version of Unison on both sides of the sync, and that's sometimes hard to do. However, it solves the problem of when …

GOML

Smart.

A very interesting approach, language-wise: This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of programming languages, with a strong emphasis on functional programming. The cou…

Clarification: I know there are instructions in the Debian documentation on how to put nonfree firmware on a USB drive and to use that drive with the free installer, but it's so mu…

This makes it easier to get started with Debian. If the project, or motivated users want to detail exactly how to run Debian without nonfree firmware, that would be great. And just…

Debian left a huge opening, and Ubuntu went right through it. Good for them — and us.

https://cs3210.cc.gatech.edu/r/unix6.pdf

I run Debian off and on, and have been doing so for years. I generally start a new computer on Fedora because the hardware only works in newer kernels, and Fedora sends new ones al…