Posts by MonocleRB

Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux

as our BDFL said,

"At some point, people have them as museum pieces. They might as well run museum kernels." -Linus Torvalds

Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies

Mint UI's been stale for a while

see title

It's definitely not a bad UI, definitely the top three in the Linux world, but there's a reason Linux Mint isn't the most popular distro anymore. Still very popular — I have a couple friends who swear by it — but it's lost some of its share to Manjaro and a little to MX.

Only reason I stopped using it after a week is the icons are rather ugly and mismatched. I later discovered the Papyrus icon PPA, which is basically perfect, but by then I was hooked on Manjaro with KDE Plasma 5.

Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers

We're not all like that...

Shame that the fundamentalists of the 80's gave all us other Christians a bad reputation.

Apple releases Lisa source code on landmark machine's 40th birthday

Thanks for releasing the Lisa OS source code, Apple, but this license is ridiculous.

So when Microsoft released some DOS source, they did it under the MIT license ("do whatever you want, just credit us").

When Apple let the Computer History Museum release the source code to Lisa OS 3.1, they wrote an original license that:

· Only lets you use and modify the software for educational purposes.

· Doesn't let you share it with anyone else, in any way, not even with friends or from teacher to student (although technically you could still distribute patches you make for it).

· Implicitly forbids you from running it on hardware you don't own.

· Forbids you from publishing benchmarks of it.

· Gives Apple a license to do whatever they feel like with your modifications, even if you keep them to yourself and don't publish them.

· Lets Apple revoke the license whenever they feel like it.

· Forbids you from exporting it to any nation or person embargoed by the USA (moot, since the license doesn't let you share the software in any way).

Why Apple feels the need to cripple the use of 40-year-old code is beyond me. Especially when they have released a lot of the code for their current OS and tools under the popular and well-understood Apache License 2.0 or their own APSL 2.0, neither of which impose these arbitrary restrictions.