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Your first distribution in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My first distro was Suse Linux 8.1. I had to buy the box as downloading was not an option with my dial-up connection back then. However, the first distro that I fell in love with was Fedora Core. The original one. I bought the book which had the DVD with the full installation. I was hooked. That was more than 20 years ago.

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Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)
 

Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems

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Recurrent Dreams by Ionian Blue (ionblue.bandcamp.com)
Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The author is exited but I'm not. I am not a big fan of corporations taking the free work of FOSS developers and turning it into a proprietary dystopia.

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That's my message (sopuli.xyz)
 

I cancelled my subscription since I received a notification that my browser is not supported. Perhaps I should have mentioned my issues with DRM as well, but this may have gone too far. One message is clear, too many messages are noise.

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Ad from 1985 - A saying about source code (sopuli.xyz)
 

I found this ad from Personal Computer World (UK) in 1985. I think we all like their moto! Has anyone heard of this company? They don't seem to be still around from an internet search I did. But people who worked there may have had an interesting career (hopefully!)

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Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 (sopuli.xyz)
 

How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today's money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

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Linux Foundation and big tech back RISC-V software ecosystem (www.theregister.com)
 

Linux foundation and a number of big names in tech commit top talent and invest on RISC-V. The companies that support this initiative are, among others, Google, Intel, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Samsung, SiFive, etc.