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Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by qbasic_forever »

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #26
qbasic_forever wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? For desktop use it doesn't matter. If you're not paging out of ram you will never ever notice. I'm not sitting here running disk benchmarks all day... I'm browsing some web pages and using a text editor.

Hope you never want to do updates or reconfigure any packages or change up any docker containers, etc.

It doesn't matter. I'm not losing sleep over an apt upgrade taking maybe 10 more seconds. I'd much rather live with that and have a little desktop that barely sips 5 watts of power total.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by newaccount74 »

rattray wrote: post #10

What was the stated reason?

> I have most of my life, because I was sorta born into it, run Apple

> Recently, meaning the last 5 years or so, I have become more and more depressed...

> (laughter)

> And what Apple is doing to something that should allow you to work is just atrocious.

> But they are taking a lot of space and time to do it, so it's okay.

> And I have come, in the last month or two, to say even though I've invested a zillion years in Apple, I'm throwing it away.

> And I'm going to Linux, to Raspbian in particular

> (applause)

> Anyway, I'm half transitioned now.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by qbasic_forever »

mathisfun123 wrote: post #28
qbasic_forever wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? For desktop use it doesn't matter. If you're not paging out of ram you will never ever notice. I'm not sitting here running disk benchmarks all day... I'm browsing some web pages and using a text editor.

> If you're not paging out of ram you will never ever notice. What you say is true but you didn't respond to someone complaining about ram latencies, you responded to someone lamenting poor disk access perf. And you recommended booting off SSD which is demonstrably specious advice.

Again I will tell you--it doesn't matter to me and I suspect 99% of users. Unless you are like a Linus tech tips fanatic and eeking out every percent of performance for your Good Gaming Rig then it's fine.

Yes the storage performance isn't perfect.

It's fine.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by mattl »

tyingq wrote: post #15
IncRnd wrote: post #14

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Raspbian and Raspberry Linux both refer to Raspberry Pi OS, which was renamed from Raspbian. [1] [1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

I don't see the phrase "Raspberry Linux" in the linked page. Google results only seems to show those words as a deliberate name for a few niche things like "RT Raspberry Linux" . Meaning, I still don't think "Raspberry Linux" is a thing. HN should probably change the post title here.

Yeah it’s not called Raspberry Linux. This is a mistake but I think most people know he meant Raspbian/RPi OS

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

tyingq wrote: post #15
IncRnd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raspbian and Raspberry Linux both refer to Raspberry Pi OS, which was renamed from Raspbian. [1] [1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

I don't see the phrase "Raspberry Linux" in the linked page. Google results only seems to show those words as a deliberate name for a few niche things like "RT Raspberry Linux" . Meaning, I still don't think "Raspberry Linux" is a thing. HN should probably change the post title here.

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Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by tyingq »

nntwozz wrote: post #27

Well good for him. But we have to let go of this notion that for GNU/Linux to win, Apple has to lose. I'm paraphrasing but can't shake that feeling when I hear those claps in the video. When are we ever going to grow up?

I'd summarize it more as him saying he's choosing to opt out of Apple's direction because he doesn't like it. Was there something beyond that...calling for Apple's demise?

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by tyingq »

mattl wrote: post #35
tyingq wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see the phrase "Raspberry Linux" in the linked page. Google results only seems to show those words as a deliberate name for a few niche things like "RT Raspberry Linux" . Meaning, I still don't think "Raspberry Linux" is a thing. HN should probably change the post title here.

Yeah it’s not called Raspberry Linux. This is a mistake but I think most people know he meant Raspbian/RPi OS

He said Raspbian. It's just the post title here that's off.

Edit: Yes, it's something of a nit, but it helps for searching, etc, later. Or if in the future, a different product does have that name. "Raspberry Pi OS" is an option if Raspbian seems obscure.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by justinzollars »

kjhughes wrote: post #30

For those who might prefer text over video: Q: What's your operating system of choice, today? A: I have for most of my life, because I was sort of born into it, run Apple. Right now, recently, meaning within the last five years, I’ve become more and more and more depressed and [Laughter] what Apple is doing to something which should allow you to work is just atrocious, but they are taking a lot of space and time to d…

I have to admit, I tried and failed to switch away from Apple. I bought a Linux Laptop - an System 76. I was surprised at how terrible the battery management of linux was compared with my mac. And that particular issue broke me.
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