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Reimagining the Fedora Linux installer: Anaconda's new "Web UI" - Fedora Magazine in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Insane graphical installer. You cannot install an os with just serial console access.

We’re using Firefox to render the UI when you’re installing locally. (There’s no Chromium or Electron involved.)

Both are insane.

Compatibility is the only real issue anymore (opinion/discussion) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

The only thing that is a genuine problem with Linux as a whole is that a lot of apps and games just aren’t compatible

Because two systems are different.

It is not a problem. Shut up and hack.

Linux and the Fear of Change (a video for the normies in our lives) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

It can find and load your ssh keys. Does it just do one thing well?

Use plan 9.

Is there an Ubuntu variant these days that works on 32-bit? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just install plan 9. It is better than anything else.

Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are errors in my post, so it must not be chatgpt ;)

Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, the syntax is the same. It also support various GNU and BSD extensions.

Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

GNU bc is unmaintained for years. The latest version is from 2017. It don't have a repo or a mailing list.

bc-gh started in 2018 and it is still actively developed. It is adopted by many projects I've listed in my post.

Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

perhaps they don't care about bc. I think they don't even notice that GNU bc haven't been updated since 2017.

Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I will change it to "licensing reason". Thank you

But the software you listed are used by many peoples. bc-gh is robust and performant, GNU bc is not actively developed, and benchmark shows that it is clearly slower than bc-gh in most case. But in most distros bc-gh is not available.

Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But there are technical reason too. IIRC, gcc > 4.3 drop support for some architecture?

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Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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(for anyone who do not know, bc is a "arbitrary-precision arithmetic language". its syntax is similar to C)

Gavin Howard's bc (bc-gh) is adopted by busybox, toybox, FreeBSD, Android, macOS for its robustness and superior performance. It is also shipped with Gentoo Linux; LFS also use bc-gh.

Even though bc-gh is more robust and updated, Linux distros other than Gentoo and Fedora do not package it it. bc-gh is not available on Arch (available on AUR), Debian and perhaps all of its derivative. The reason seems to be a licensing reason: bc-gh is under the BSD license.

bc-gh is clearly superior to GNU bc, Gavin Howard's benchmark show that bc-gh is faster than GNU bc in most case, while bc-gh actually do more work than GNU bc.

Today I tested GNU bc and bc-gh. I let they do this operation: (1024*1024)^(1024*1024). GNU bc give me the answer in five minutes, bc-gh give me the answer in two minutes.

GNU bc do not have a repository. All development happen in private, and we can't make sure it is still maintained. The latest version is 1.07 from 2017. bc-gh have a public repository and it is actively maintained.

So it is clear that other Linux distro not adopting bc-gh is purely licensing reason. They reject software not under the GPL license, even if they are more robust and more performant.

We need a campaign to raise awareness about superior software alternatives. We need to stop Linux distro for not adopting superior and updated softwares for licensing reasons.

What is your directory structure like for programming? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~/real

~/real/cprac

~/real/git

KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Making a LFS distro already show you all the GNU mess! Why another distro?

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"Stable distro" meaning (lemmy.ml)
 

Distributions like RHEL and Debian freeze packages, you will have to use old package when the newer is available. I think these distributions is just for highly mission-critical system, they have to run software smoothly, no breakage. Most personal computer don't need that stability.

Can anyone explain more about what a stable distributions mean?

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