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#76 Re: Off-topic » small binaries » 2025-09-12 13:46:17
very much appreciate Cameron Kaiser's latest:
strongly encourage visits to Cameron Kaiser's website:
also see What's In The Retro Room and Server Room
as well as the fun had by all unboxing the Raptor Talos II
or perhaps you'd enjoy a trip down the gopher hole
enjoy!
thought of another interesting webpage(not Cameron Kaiser):
https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/
#77 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Suddenly no audio » 2025-09-11 14:17:16
but what triggered the sudden loss of audio(since it was working perfectly before)?
#78 Off-topic » small binaries » 2025-09-11 08:42:08
- stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn
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thinking about small binaries
i was checking to see if there was a newer version of EasyOS(which is now based on Devuan) and this rabbithole was the result:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ … alus/2025/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ … 025/6.6.8/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ … -notes.htm
https://bkhome.org/news/202410/the-zig-language.html
https://gencmurat.com/en/pages/programming-with-zig/
https://gencmurat.com/en/posts/introduction-to-zig/
https://blog.lohr.dev/after-a-day-of-programming-in-zig
https://blog.lohr.dev/imap-introduction
https://blog.lohr.dev/smol-hello-world
https://bkhome.org/
https://www.google.com/search?q=hellowo … bkhome.org
https://bkhome.org/news/202209/rust-hel … -31kb.html
https://bkhome.org/news/202208/quick-he … rison.html
https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/
https://www.muppetlabs.com/%7Ebreadbox/ … eensy.html
someday i would like to breakdown 4.4.10 Damn Small Linux(the last one before Robert Shingledecker went full-time on Tiny Core Linux) just to see if it could be somewhat modernized. also see Slitaz and the various Puppy Linux spins.
yes, i know dsl is supposedly "back" but it isn't small anymore(not that anything is these days).
#80 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] OpenRC Woes » 2025-09-07 13:44:26
major kudos and hat-tip to @Andre4freedom for expending their finite, valuable time and energy to actually post...what the rest of us were thinking.
#81 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » trying to keep my 100yr-old father computing for another year » 2025-09-07 08:49:09
@kapqa, had problems with claws-mail rss-plugin not performing properly and so now use newsboat
#82 Re: Other Issues » amd64-microcode update for transient scheduler attacks » 2025-09-02 14:03:15
this thread makes me want to dig out my Q6600 and Q8200 quad-core machines...iirc they still have beowulf on spinning rust...sounds like a rainy day endeavour.
#83 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2025-09-01 09:37:35
The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBjPAqmnvGA
edited...more:
Eagles - Hotel California (Live 1977) (Official Video)
1.6_Billion views - thunderstruck
#84 Re: Freedom Hacks » Patching on the fly with "stream editor" (fftrate ALSA plugin) » 2025-09-01 09:28:57
transcript of Alan Watts: The Individual & The World
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/individual-and-the-world
pro-tip: if you toggle to "reader view" in firefox you can then fairly easily select all and cut/paste into a simple text document/file for offline reading(roughly a 150KB file / 24 page pdf)
more: the link referenced in the previous post is probably not the best offered at yt(commenters complained of numerous ads/commercials through the near 4hr audio-only "video" although i didn't personally sample said 4hrs)
another possible resource:
#85 Re: Off-topic » For those who like open bioses, » 2025-09-01 08:31:45
with reference to libreboot, this should probably be a required document:
#86 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-09-01 06:02:06
speaking of surprises reminded me of this regarding ACL breakage:
https://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fix_busted_acls_faster_with_libadacl.xhtml
#87 Re: Freedom Hacks » Patching on the fly with "stream editor" (fftrate ALSA plugin) » 2025-08-30 09:47:42
enjoyed all the content and context of this thread, which lead to other commentaries, wikis, and works.
at your leisure/pleasure/satisfaction/etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies
https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.17322
hat-tip and kudos to @igorzwx and a heartfelt Endeavor to persevere!
#88 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-08-29 09:09:28
thanks to everyone who is talented enough to continue to investigate "the borking"
hopefully a fix can be found
#89 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No audio on Excalibur through pipewire on KDE wayland » 2025-08-29 08:54:49
#90 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-08-26 08:24:02
re: wayland reminds of a recent past post:
#91 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Devuan Thunderbird Release Channel v142? » 2025-08-26 08:15:44
Anytime Bob!
#92 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » TWO startup splash screens? » 2025-08-26 08:10:03
this reminded me of a known expliot/vulnerability that has been around for awhile:
always good to keep a reasonable threat detection posture.
#93 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Devuan Thunderbird Release Channel v142? » 2025-08-25 13:31:59
a few links for those curious regarding eudora:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_(email_client)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/eudora-email/
and pegasus:
#94 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-08-25 12:44:40
looks like mdadm has been in debian/ubuntu since at least debian 3 and ubuntu 5.10 based on this webpage:
https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid
so it is possible that an original or a remix may/might possibly cause these failures/issues
using DDG Lite and searching for ubuntu 8.04 mdadm finds numerous results, just one of which is:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootDegradedRaid
which appears to have similar questions regarding out of the box operations
@fsmithred, fortunately there would have been few of these "situations" however it is "non-zero" and one must wonder how many borked systems were never accurately diagnosed regarding the exact cause of failure(after all, the innocent live-distro user believes wholeheartedly that booting their liveusb thumbdrive in an unknowing/unsuspecting owners/users machine doesn't change anything on the computer itself...because that is what the distros claim...a claim we now know is sometimes false)
#95 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-08-25 08:57:06
before starting a new thread(and potentially requesting it to be a frontpage sticky) i wanted to clarify something
(mostly to @fsmithred given admin/elevated-status/mod/etc. but @all as well)
if i understand this correctly there may be millions of live-cd/dvd/usb/etc distros existing out there globally.......
that.....
bork the booting of an uncertain number of machines owned/used by an unknown number of unknowing victims?
seems like the makings of a good commentary on arstechnic, hacker news, reddit, slashdot, etc...
hmmm.....
i'll be the first to admit that i was unaware that many/most/who_knows? of currently circulating live-distros(cd/dvd/usb/etc), claiming to be completely safe to boot up on any machine without changing _anything_ on that physical computer, instead...
bork it?
i do not think that the vast majority of casual live-distro users(past/present/future) are aware of this potential issue.
in other words, i guess i really want to be wrong about this. hoping anywho.
edited to turn it down a couple notches...squirrels and coffee you know...
#96 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » TWO startup splash screens? » 2025-08-25 07:49:50
did you ever fix this?
#97 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Devuan Thunderbird Release Channel v142? » 2025-08-25 07:48:05
our email journey/saga starts at aol and ends at claws-mail
(aol/earthlink/thunderbird/evolution/claws-mail)
forty years of irreplaceable correspondence...sigh...
...walks off muttering something something put those something backups...cough...
#98 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Can't even install yt-dlp in Devuan 6, many things are broken » 2025-08-22 15:56:40
yes, uninstall yt-dlp via apt or synaptic BEFORE manually installing the newest version please.
#99 Re: Devuan Derivatives » oh! an exciting new derivatives based on debootstrap: EasyOS ! » 2025-08-22 15:49:19
EasyOS is by Barry Kauler(original Puppy Linux creator but has since passed the steering levers on to others) but IMHHO it is better
#100 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2025-08-20 09:28:18
oh noes! where have all the babies gone? who will bathe and feed us when we are sixty-four?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02615-6
also interesting, given this post and assorted recent commentaries:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=57310#p57310
signed, humble parental caregiver 24/7/365
edit: might as well put this here also:
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