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Re:Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:44AM (#14821405)
Web Browser: palemoon

Email Client: mutt

Terminal: terminator

IDE: jetbrains stuff, vim

File manager: ranger, nautilus

Basic Text Editor: vim

IRC/Messaging Client: hexchat

PDF Reader: evince

Office Suite: libreoffice

Calendar: cal, webshit

Video Player: mplayer,vlc,totem

Music Player: clementine

Photo Viewer: feh

Screen recording: shutter

An easier way would be when you change -std=c++1y to -std=c++03 it won't compile.
Re:Old usenet maps on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:47PM (#14626871)
The hard part is laying out the planar graph, not laying out boxes.
Re:Old usenet maps on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:19PM (#14626741)
A while ago I tried installing Slackware 3.0 on Virtual Box out of nostalgia, and it was everything I remembered and worse. I only managed to get XFree86 to start up in some 300x200 mode that would pan around the 'virtual' size. Getting networking working required a kernel recompilation.

Even after all that, there wasn't much it could do. I'm not sure why I insisted on running that instead of Windows 95.

To this day, I can remember how to build a 1.2.X kernel. You were also very lucky if you had a soundblaster card, because only a handful of sound drivers that were in the kernel.

A little later OSS came out. To get sound to work a lot of cases you had to shell out money for commercial sound drivers, or get a crack from #linuxwarez.

My first install was slackware 3.0 on 4mb. You had to manually partition the disk and setup swap space before you could even launch the installer.

This was a minor inconvenience compared to swapping the 40 1.44mb disks needed to install it because I couldn't get it to use my pre-atapi cdrom drive correctly. Using the cdrom drive it would work for a little bit, and then everything would start timing out. And, a network install was some science fiction as far as I and my 9600bps modem were concerned.

Then once you got it all installed you could start trying to get X11 and ppp to work...