Re: The only answer you need...
Posted: 2020-10-13 19:40
Applicable to Debian as well.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:the operating system is absolutely brilliant, a model of simplicity and the King of "just works".
Applicable to Debian as well.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:the operating system is absolutely brilliant, a model of simplicity and the King of "just works".
Actually I have tested it. But that's it and perhaps I would say that it would be the only serious contender to linux for personal computer (i.e laptop) kind of use. But the hardware support is clearly not as broad as on linux. This, of course, may or may not matter depending on the case. I wish there were moreHead_on_a_Stick wrote:Have you tried OpenBSD? They accept corporate donations but the developers very much do their own thing (check out the mailing lists, they're epic) and the operating system is absolutely brilliant, a model of simplicity and the King of "just works".pylkko wrote:how possible is it to design an operating system without corporate influence/input at all?
Erm, no. Don't get me wrong — I love Debian but simple it ain't. Just as an example consider the audio systems: pure ALSA, JACK, JACK2 & PulseAudio are all available; OpenBSD just has sndiod(8). Which is also available in Debian, amusingly: https://packages.debian.org/buster/sndiodsickpig wrote:Applicable to Debian as well.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:the operating system is absolutely brilliant, a model of simplicity and the King of "just works".
No, it is not. But the hardware that is supported works very well (the backlight keys on my ThinkPad E485 work natively under OpenBSD but not under Linux) and there are far fewer regressions over time because the OpenBSD devs aren't as keen to cram in new features.pylkko wrote:the hardware support is clearly not as broad as on linux
Don't they say if its not available under apt then either it doesn't exist or its not worth havingHead_on_a_Stick wrote:Which is also available in Debian, amusingly: https://packages.debian.org/buster/sndiod
OT . . . If said world leader ever had COVID at all. In Orwellian fashion, truth are lies and lies are truth and perhaps this one took the focus off of his debate debacle.stevepusser wrote:Perhaps the same "they" that are whispering to a certain world leader that he is now immune to COVID after having it for a week, when scientists say we simply don't know enough about it yet to say that for anyone?
Inaction is also an action I supposegolinux wrote:And @sickpig . . . as to voting . . . a choice between Mussolini and The Mummy isn't really a choice. I've been sitting out the circus for a long time . . .
Veering this thread off the cliff now...I was amazed that the POTUS hadn't caught it yet, and a White House superspreader event seemed inevitable. Shades of "The Masque of the Red Death"! Maybe Poe was channeling Nostradamus with "Red"?golinux wrote:OT . . . If said world leader ever had COVID at all. In Orwellian fashion, truth are lies and lies are truth and perhaps this one took the focus off of his debate debacle.stevepusser wrote:Perhaps the same "they" that are whispering to a certain world leader that he is now immune to COVID after having it for a week, when scientists say we simply don't know enough about it yet to say that for anyone?
And @sickpig . . . as to voting . . . a choice between Mussolini and The Mummy isn't really a choice. I've been sitting out the circus for a long time . . .
That seems like a vote for Mehssulini...sickpig wrote:Inaction is also an action I supposegolinux wrote:And @sickpig . . . as to voting . . . a choice between Mussolini and The Mummy isn't really a choice. I've been sitting out the circus for a long time . . .
That is a false dichotomy saying 2 sides of the same coin are different.stevepusser wrote:That seems like a vote for Mehssulini...
This seems like a "true fact". Something the democratically elected supremo would saygolinux wrote:That is a false dichotomy saying 2 sides of the same coin are different.
Sorry, I guess I went too deep into English-speaking pop culture with the "Meh"ssulini pun. "Meh" is an expression of apathy.golinux wrote:That is a false dichotomy saying 2 sides of the same coin are different.stevepusser wrote:That seems like a vote for Mehssulini...