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I'm amazed to see that Kermit is still alive and kicking. Thank you, team!

Sad news. Really.

I'm still glad that NetSurf exists.

They still don't unlock iPhones for the government. But please, by all means, enjoy your next U.S. ecosystem.

I wish it would support more VCSs.

When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.…

Trademarked in USA, maintained by US citizens, mostly distributed by US companies who add US software like GNU and systemd.

Or Linux, being an American product.

Waiting for Adobe to rename Photoslop.

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

Especially not "Microsoft".

It is calming to see that in the end, WordPerfect Office outlived Microsoft Office.

I agree. CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.

Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!

NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.

I upgraded my OpenBSD machines a few hours ago, and I'm still not entirely sure whether I notice any obvious TCP speed improvement. Then again, they're not really high-load compute…

FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's not quite as easy to support more platforms.

This has lived rent-free in my head for too long. Here it is.

I don't know whether operating systems need to be "cool". Is Windows, the market leader, "cool"? Or rather, I don't know whether those who think PewDiePie is "cool" have the same u…