Posts by johnandmegh

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

Re: bit hypocritical?

Or, it could be viewed as working with someone with whom you disagree, instead of completely cutting yourself off from them. Catch more flies with honey, etc.

The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed

And the fundamental idea of the Start Menu is still there, in a way, in so many places.

Beyond the specifics of exactly what is placed exactly where within the menu, the interface paradigm is part of what makes its history so interesting. Sit down at a machine running Windows 10, Windows 11 with "fixed" taskbar settings, Chrome OS, Ubuntu Desktop, Linux distros with KDE Plasma, etc., and you know that you'll be able to get a list of the programs you can launch by clicking a button in the bottom-left.

Talking about and studying the Start Menu in the realm of computing is IMO as relevant as talking about and studying the electric guitar as it relates to modern popular music.

Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces

Re: Another conclusion

And if you aren't pretty darn sure that you can, then that effort would be *so* much better spent actually contributing toward an existing project that could use the help.

Folks will end up doing what they want, but if folks considered the full context, I think working on a downstream derivative distro when the upstream has hundreds of packages that need maintenance help, etc. would seem like installing a new augmented-reality navigation system into an Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight.

GNOME head honcho Holly Million steps down

Re: Nominative determinism

At the very least, the ability to apply for said funding was one factor:

https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/issues/115

Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?

Re: Success is guaranteed

Either that, or lump in a bunch of other failed business decisions together with this one during a re-org, then talk about how "changing market dynamics have forced us to make difficult decisions about where former synergies can no longer be leveraged across our solution portfolio" while they cut the team

Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that does what it says on the tin

Oh, Snapcraft!

The examples given of why the move to Snaps is a bad thing are A) a niche issue, known for years (and that exists with Flatpak as well) with a well-documented workaround, and B) the hyperbolic rantings (just like Microsoft!!!) of a blog poster that their Microsoft Windows software installation workflow - download a file from a random website and double-click it to run the installer - isn't working.

To each their own, but as a mere user - what I care about is that when a Firefox update is released, I will be running it by the next morning (given the number of security concerns with any browser engine). I have that where the Firefox Snap is installed, I don't have that on the main distros that use "traditional" packages for the browser. I suspect the majority of folks are actually well served by the change.

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Re: Is it really beyond the wit of Microsoft ...

I suspect they don't feel the need to improve that communication, since:

- Decision-makers for their enterprise customers will either blindly accept the requirement, or figure out what you stated on their own

- Most of the individual power-users who could possibly comprehend their explanation won't believe them anyway.

Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree

Any different response this time?

Last time, there was a temporary restriction on new uploaders, then the restriction was lifted with (apparently) no further controls in place...so the cycle repeated.

There are several steps that could be taken to improve the situation - like forcing user visibility to the app's manifest in the store, like Flathub - that wouldn't require incremental review time by the Canonical/Snapcraft team for each new app.

My fear is that it'll simply be another "wait out the storm" situation, and that next time, the malicious apps might be in a category that's not quite so easily dismissed as crypto.

Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

Re: the application will be removed on upgrade

I could see reasons both practical - reducing unmaintained lines of code that are out "in the wild" past a certain version number - and cynical - removing one avenue to creating and using data outside of the 365 ecosystem - why they'd want to.

Not saying it's a good thing, just potentially understandable given a specific goal.

Buggy app for insulin-delivery device puts diabetes patients at risk of hypoglycemia

Just watched a recap video of the radiation therapy device with a bug that led to six deaths back in the 1980s.

For all of the regulations touted around data privacy in healthcare, one would have hoped that episode would have been enough to prompt something similar for required development practices in medical device embedded software.

OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source

SUSE's marketing capitulation

For Oracle and Rocky, it's a given that they don't really have an original code base to compete with - they were already playing "get RHEL without paying Red Hat".

What sort of vote of confidence is it from SUSE in their own flagship SLE product (and/or in the future ALP-based products) that they are willing going along with this branding exercise of "Enterprise Linux" = RHEL? After all, I assume that SUSE's actual own products don't "follow the Enterprise Linux standard" as this OpenELA entity is now phrasing it?