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Project time/resource constraints not withstanding, wonder how this compares to other c-64 os alternatives.[0] ?? future options ?? : Unix bootable from a cassette tape drive? :-) ?? c-64 unix server with ports to hook up one or more c-64's via CaTer (Cartridge Terminal) -- perhaps best done via tcp-ip 'ports'. ?? fuse[1] for c-64 to be able to 'read' other floppies / c-64 unix swap space over tcp-ip.?? ?? "modern" 5.25" for c-64 via c-64 variant of greaseweazle[2] ?? ----- [0] "The Many Operating Systems of the Commodore 64" : https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-many-operating-systems-of-the [1] c64-fuse (perhaps over c-64 tcp-ip) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace [2] greaseweazle : https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle

Historically I think there's a very strong case that Symbolics did outperform others with their software productivity, especially in graphics. They had an ability to wade into certain domains and produce legitimately shockingly competitive products, which really should not have been possible. But I also think Lisp leads to spectacular burnout as I think it imposes a greater cognitive requirement on the part of the developer. A Symbolics graphics reel from 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4HXPJtym2Q This stuff was still in use on Final Fantasy 7 https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-computers-used-to-do-3d-animation?s…

I did not follow the events closely, but it seems that one guy, not particularly involved in the development, took charge of the repo and the website and essentially locked it from all the core developers. The story is told here, very interesting read! https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-took

I think you got this one wrong. The original posted URL was: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/richard-stallman-the-state-of-the The grandparent comment says that Lunduke ripped off Slashdot. I don't see that. There is one quote that's the same and several that I see that are different. You claim you changed it to the original source... the original source would be the Libreplanet link here: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/the-state-of-the-free-so… So both Lunduke and Slashdot are posting news about LibrePlanet and it's not clear one ripped off the other, other than having one quote that's the same. It seems like you went with the above commenters without investigating. I have no affiliation with Lunduke. I'm not a paid subscriber to his journal, I just get it by email sometimes.

Ardi Executor. There's a recent fork at GitHub. You can run m68k binaries seamlessly. You don't need propietary MacOS parts, just the software. But if you are some software preserver, having a libre option to run legacy media it's always good for historical reasons. I am a daily libre software user but I emulate ancient machines with propietary stuff just for curiosity. As it not a personal computing device I find it fine. It's just an historical toy and not my computing device. And, well, if you want to create libre engines for old Mac games (ScummVM, SDL ports...), for sure you need to at least emulate the old OSes and run the propietary game in order to compare the output and correctness. Also, it already exists "Mac" for x86. It was Rhapsody DR2 and it could run Classic Mac software and NeXT one too. It was like a blend of these two. OSX it's like NeXT Step concept 2.0, with few traces of Mac Classic. Qemu will run it fine. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/hands-on-with-1998s-rhapsody-dr2

Respectfully, that's a bit of a stretch. Impaired human memory and increased risk taking are coefficients that would impact far more industries than software. I think the notion is that software, in particular, seems buggier. IF these side effects of repeated COVID infection have anything to do with software bugs, I would think it's contribution would be dramatically smaller than say LLM assisted coding, rapid merging of code, lack of human review. Just a couple of examples: - Linux kernel ai commits (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ai-submissions-to-linux-hits-new) - Omarchy 4 30k lines of ai generated code (https://x.com/dhh/status/2057907663967543618)

Confirmed: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/midnightbsd-responds-to-californias

That's a funny way to say "they fired staff that vandalized company property, broke into the CEO's office, and used an internal company website to publish and promote anti-company propaganda". That will get you fired from bussing tables or washing dishes, let alone a six-figure job at MS. Edit: Source on the last one; the first two were widely reported on in media: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/fired-microsoft-employee-encouraged

The original “Toilet Seat” iBook from 1999is the only one I can recall that came with a handle: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ode-to-the-clamshell-ibook-g3-aka

This is the source where I learned about this: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundations-new-banned-words

You could also just run Audacious or QMMP natively on Linux, they support Winamp skins and it looks just like the real thing. Minus the Wine quirks. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/miss-winamp-try-audacious-the-winamp

Meanwhile, bryan lunduke blogged this today: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/massive-memory-leaks-in-system76s

Commerical X servers were really something, especially those without an academic/FOSS heritage. Desqview/X [1] was one of those "DOS plus a UI and multitasking" OSes that competed with Windows 2/3.x and GEOS/PC, that windowed with... you guess it, the power of Motif and X. I think twm was the original window manager that came with it, and you could run emulated DOS instances and Windows sessions in X terminal emulators. [1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s

Desqview/X ran on a 386 I think. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s

Changed now from https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ms-dos-40-source-code-fails-to-compile. Thanks!

Oh, thanks. OSI has been around much longer than I expected. This post[0] dives into who coined the term (spoiler: it predates OSI by a long, long time), but it’s reasonable that OSI popularized it alongside their specific definition. [0] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-open-source IMHO, to the extent that their goal was to find a less confusing term than “free”, I’d say they’ve failed.

I'm not familiar with the author, but seems like they have quite identical post from 2021 as well: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of

The Linux Foundation "harvests" a couple hundred million dollars a year [1]. They could easily spend more on maintainers. I can't easily find exact number, but Torvalds is paid between 1-2 million dollars a year by The Linux Foundation. They could support other volunteer maintainers as well. [1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of

> Call me a pessimist but I don't think Mozilla is managed well enough No disagreement there. > We'd need the Linux Foundation Who spends a whooping’ 3% of their total spending on actual Linux? [1] Call me a pessimist, but I might look for a better candidate. [1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of

There is always an exception, Ladybird is one. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-a-truly-new-web-browser

My main worry is that someone might register a trademark for that name and cause all sorts of issues for me. Worst case scenario I could just rename the project, but my mind goes to the time when Firefox browser, at the time Phoenix Browser and firebird browser, kept bullying other open source projects and it was only their copyrights that kept them from needing to change their branding. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/why-is-firefox-called-firefox Thing is, idk how often this stuff happens and if it is something I need to reasonably be worried about especially since another non-trademarked piece of software has that name already

Seeing that it's also in this book (which I would like to buy, btw) I can't help but comment on the myth of the 'first bug' in computing: it's a historical fake, see for example here[1] [1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug

“The truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney” https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-truly-epic-byte-magazine-covers

> The real problem is that nearly all website render terribly. It just can't keep up with the complexity that it the modern web. It's a real shame. I was thinking since quite a while now to write a wrapper around the Serenity OS browser [1] that supports JS, CSS and WASM, and passes ACID 3 tests [2]. I did have a quick look at the source, but couldn't think of a nice way to wrap it as it's quite closely tied to the Serenity OS GUI. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/Applicatio… [2] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/serenityos-web-browser-passes-acid3

I liked this one: "Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel" https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-threatens-to-punish “I really didn’t want to have to do this,” stated Torvalds. “But you all screw around too much. Nothing seems to get through to you. Maybe a little time with Rust will teach you a lesson.”

Looks like there were some leadership problems within the QB64 community recently[1]. The project could probably use new maintainers. [1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-took

Article: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-time-suse-the-german-linux-company?…

Prior instance of principal-agent problem in open-source, https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of > The Linux Foundation — the organization that effectively controls Linux and employs the creator of Linux — only spends 3.4% [of $177M] on… Linux. Is the proposed SFC copyright assignment intended to be temporary, e.g. could it be returned to the creator after a legal case is won? Why is it not sufficient for SFC to represent the copyright owner? Would joint/minority ownership be an option? Leaving aside legal concerns, could code maintainers possibly lose the ability to steward their OSS community and set governance policy, after they surrender copyright?

Given her twitter handle is DaniElainaFore I don't think it's unreasonable that Cassidy calls her Dani in this post, after working closely together for what, 7 years? Is there more context? (edit: nvm, found the tweetstorm from last month https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=r that goes into some details)