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I didn't realize the size difference was so huge.
Atto has a great man page that would give a user everything they needed to know if they were unfamiliar with emacs keybindings.
Today's generation of kids is using Google Apps in school and has no ties to MS Office. SAAS in general will make MS Office much less relevant. Things like Canva and Photopea are doing the same to Adobe.
Having ZFS baked into the installer and fully supported by the project is a huge motivator for using FreeBSD.
I know that Linux distros can accommodate ZFS, but it's a fair-weather situation due to licensing and most distros' preference for BTRFS.
If the economy is profoundly affected by employment conditions going forward, how can housing costs not drop?
Most static site generators offer a Bear Blog theme, including Hugo and Zola.
So you can get a self-hosted site that looks and acts like a Bear Blog, but run it yourself with a free software SSG.
The license disallows use of the software for what it is intended: setting up a multi-user blogging system.
I used to have this book and loved it. Kid me could never have built this. Adult me couldn't either, but the idea that somebody could was pretty extraordinary.
Golang's not so secret weapon
This has bitten me many times
Puppy was my first distro. Loved it back in the day.
I discovered so many great apps through Puppy, including Geany, ROX Filer and gFTP.
If I had a nickel for every SO thread that came up in my Google searches that could have answered my question if only the SO moderators had allowed it to be answered, I'd be able to buy a few steak dinners.
This book was my World Wide Web as a kid
Alma also has a live ISO.
> Pay for RHEL or use Debian
In this climate, that is a solid philosophy
The decisions seem rushed, not borne out of consensus, and not well thought out
My 2011 iMac is screaming fast with Debian Linux.
Labor unions seem to put that kidney dialysis measure on the ballot for every election, then they are outspent by more than 100-to-1 by the kidney dialysis companies on TV ads, and the measures never pass.
Money wins, and the unions could spend more but they don't in this case.
I'm a big Unison fan, but it can be finicky. You need the same version of Unison on both sides of the sync, and that's sometimes hard to do.
However, it solves the problem of when there are changes on both sides and you want to reconcile them.
A very interesting approach, language-wise:
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of programming languages, with a strong emphasis on functional programming. The course uses the languages ML, Racket, and Ruby as vehicles for teaching the concepts, but the real intent is to teach enough about how any language “fits together” to make you more effective programming in any language -- and in learning new ones.
Clarification: I know there are instructions in the Debian documentation on how to put nonfree firmware on a USB drive and to use that drive with the free installer, but it's so much easier to just use the nonfree installer if you're going to be using nonfree firmware. Why make it hard if you're using the bits anyway?
That said, I'd love to see a lot more people writing about what hardware works with free firmware so we can decide if we want to go in that direction. I am all for that.
This makes it easier to get started with Debian.
If the project, or motivated users want to detail exactly how to run Debian without nonfree firmware, that would be great.
And just as the nonfree installer was available but kept slightly hidden (even though it's difficult to install on just about any laptop without it), I'm sure there will be Debian Developers motivated to continue providing a fully free installer for those who want it.
Debian left a huge opening, and Ubuntu went right through it. Good for them — and us.
I run Debian off and on, and have been doing so for years. I generally start a new computer on Fedora because the hardware only works in newer kernels, and Fedora sends new ones all the time.
But after awhile, I gravitate back to Debian. I like the stability. I like the quiet in terms of updates, even with Debian's strong security model.
Debian is my home distro. I know it.
I might have said the same thing about Ubuntu, but I haven't run it in years. I'm glad it's there, but Debian's release cadence and the philosophy behind the Stable/Testing/Sid cascade is something that works for me.