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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by kragen on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:00PM (#45657413)
Maybe we should have new command names with defaults that are reasonable this decade, keeping qemu-system-i386 and the like for backwards compatibility?
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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:08PM (#45657509)
Like apt vs apt-get? Yeah, I could potentially go for that. Although in the case of qemu I'm not entirely convinced that we need to go that far because I think it would only take small tweaks to make the existing tool friendlier.
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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by kragen on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:10PM (#45657540)
Yeah, exactly.

I don't think you can make those small tweaks without breaking tens of thousands of users' production setups which depend on those defaults.

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