Putting up with people and not murdering them.
That’s why I’d love to see more developers take another look at Linux.
I’d love to see more developers taking a look at writing portable cross-platform code.
Shouldn’t m = F/a so n/s^2?
Compilers follow specs and in some cases you can have undefined behavior. You can and should use compiler flags but should complement that with good programming practices (e.g. TDD) and other tools in your pipeline (such as valgrind).
The kernel is mostly written in C, by C developers… understandably they’re rather refactor C code to make it better instead of rewritting everything in the current fancy language that’ll save the world this time (especially considering proponents of said language always, at every chance they get, sell it as C is crap, this is better).
Linux is over 30yo and keeps getting better and more stable, that’s the power of open-source.
You can use VirtualBox on linux as well, not bad for beginners.
Qubes uses the type-1 Xen hypervisor that runs at a similar privilege to the kernel of other OSes. KVM is a type-1 hypervisor implemented as a Linux kernel module.
What tells them apart them? When would you use one vs the other?
Perhaps Xen for having all machines, including the one that controls the hypervisor, being virtualized, as opposed to KVM/QEMU running on the control bare-metal with VMs on top?
Debian for ages, now Gentoo, Slackware and occasionally Devuan. Not really niche i’d say…
Because i like choice and flexibility.
They even sent you a free CD by mail if you asked them.
I remember thinking… Naaah, this is a gimmick, gimme 20 or so. Still have a few CDs laying around.
the future proved I was right. I now earn more that they do
Working with linux?
For personal use it was probably Windows 98 SE.
For professional use i’m currently forced to use Windows 10.
As long as possible, as long as someone is using it, as long as someone can keep maintaining it.
If the main developer team can no longer maintain it then open-source it, put it in the public domain and set it free. Ditto for firmware and hardware documentation.
Companies oughta be forced to release all information they have on hardware they no longer maintain and disable any vendor-lock crap once warranty ends.
Yes hardware gets old and in the computer realm it usually means it’s rendered obsolete, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its uses.
Check out the World of Tanks forums for information.
Running a full OS on a rocket? Why? It’s mostly some embedded stuff, some kind of arduino.
The launching platform though… maybe a minimalist OS with a curses interface.
Most subtle instance of Microsoft’s Embrace-Extend-Extinguish to date.
I’d call it realistic, not concerning.
The installer is the handbook.
USE flags are freakin’ awesome.
It can let you install two different versions of a library.
You can install the binary versions of some big packages like firefox.
Edit: while USE flags are generic, you can also set specific per-package flags.