Posts by smorrow

Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious

Re: As I wrote about something else a month or so ago ...

Well I never mentioned Linux. I mentioned a non-Unix Unix and two non-Linux Linuxes. They could be Windows CE under the bonnet and you'd never know.

Re: Applications

Brian Kernighan on the name "Plan 9" (possibly-apocryphal anecdote):

https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=18562164&cid=61209964

The other interesting point was that he felt like some gratuitous changes in Plan 9 were done at too low a level -- the system call level -- which made it difficult to bring along imperfect but useful code. But that ties into why the name Plan 9 was chosen. Because the most characteristic thing about the movie is its total lack of continuity.

Re: As I wrote about something else a month or so ago ...

"Linux *is* Unix now."

I wasn't talking about Linux.

Re: As I wrote about something else a month or so ago ...

The legalistic definition of Unix would exclude research Unixes though, so how good a definition is it really?

Re: Applications

/n/sources/contrib has application software, quite a bit more than my Dunbar's number for software, actually.

Re: As I wrote about something else a month or so ago ...

OSX/Android/ChromeOS isn't Unix: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixIsGeneral

GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default

Re: am I understanding this correctly ?

Yes. This is called dynamic window management, it is popular for years. Adherents will swear up and down that if you don't like it, you just aren't big-braned enough.

At least this one animates the movements.

Re: They're overcomplicating it again

Possible worst take here.

Applications don't *have* to send that metadata - I would assume. Your window manager doesn't have to use it if it is present. *And* it could prove useful to other window managers in any given paradigm.

Certainly the yet-to-be-invented paradigm where the window manager uses "AI" to learn your preferences could do with all the information it possibly can.