Posts by Uncle Slacky 2338 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2008
> “Oh my gaahhd! You don’t don’t have a Facebook account?”
I do - or rather, did, since FB don't think I'm a real person unless I film my face and head for them (which I wasn't about to do). As a result they sent me an email a few days ago telling me my account is now permanently closed (amusingly, with a "click here to log in to FB" button underneath the message).
> I described the tool, linked to him, the project, and described the problem, in case someone somewhere knew enough to have a stab at tracing the problem
Someone on the MX forums recently claimed to have a systemd/sysV boot-time selection working under Trixie:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=86241
I've done much the same with a mid-2012 MBP I got for free last year (HD cable had died, a common fault with that model as it rubs against the inside of the shell). Added an SSD in the DVD drive bay and 12Gb of RAM I had lying around, and it's now my daily driver with Solus Budgie. I tried OCLP at first (out of curiosity) but for some reason MacOS installs take _forever_ by comparison with Linux, and I didn't like the walled garden tendencies, so went back to Linux.
> Taiwan it its own country.
The US (among others) disagrees, at least officially:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China#United_States_policy :
"The United States' One-China policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: "the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position."
Probably where Douglas Adams got the idea for the Shoe Event Horizon:
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon
"...where the only type of store economically viable to build is a shoe shop. At this point, society ceases to function, and the economy collapses, sending a world spiralling into ruin."
...Enterprise - nobody cares about it as much as the ones that actually went to space, and it'll probably be easier to cut up for easy transport, as there's less in terms of internal plumbing or heat shielding to worry about. It's already in a harbour, so it could potentially be transported by sea if necessary.
Still a dumb idea, though.
Solus has adopted many aspects of Clear (its original developer also worked on Clear). It uses Clear's boot manager:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-Linux-clr-boot-manager
as well as aiming for (if not already having achieved) statelessness (this post is from 10 years ago, it may have done it by now):
https://getsol.us/2015/07/27/clear-inspiration/
Solus also applies toolchain level optimizations. In certain configurations/packages it enables more aggressive optimizations, directly inspired by Clear Linux. You can see this in the ypkg source:
https://github.com/solus-project/ypkg/blob/master/ypkg2/ypkgcontext.py#L19
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