Thank you. Glad I’m not alone in this quest with that kind of history.

My current desktop is Wheezy inside a VM - also across several platforms, but VMware, by design , doing the heavy lifting.

Anything of note, essentially everything except Audacity, is running on a Bookworm Docker host with X11 forwarding and reverse mount sshfs, so all the container “sees” is the directory I give it.

I’ve made several attempts to move away from Wheezy, but there’s too many scripts in my ~/bin directory to make that simple.

The “fresh paint smell” experience for me comes from a docker pull or docker build, but it does require hardware capabilities that died eight months or so ago, when my 64 GB RAM iMac died. No data loss, just endless frustration.

At the moment I’m exploring EC2 on demand. I suspect that for the $10k I previously spent on hardware, I can always have the latest on tap, but I’m still trying to get real-time audio editing to not be a weekly disaster. Getting closer, but not quite there yet.

I’ll have a squiz at NixOS, seems like an interesting approach.

Much obliged for sharing your experience!

Unfortunately I can’t run Debian on my M3 MacBook Air :-(

Wow, that brings back memories. Forgot about the whole Palm thing. That was a wild ride at the time.

Thank you!

I got a T-shirt from Mozilla in the early 1990’s and foolishly wore it to death. My Linux tie pin is somewhere, but I’m sure that my penguin tie has died, as have the Debian Potato CDs with boot disks for x86, PowerPC and SPARC.

Forgot about BeOS (and NetBSD for that matter), and wonder what came of BeOS.

Why NixOS? I’ve been using Debian since Slink and am interested to hear, what made you move?

Debian Slink

Before that, Windows NT, A/UX, Solaris and VAX/VMS.

Before that, Vic 20 and Apple II

Still using Debian every day whilst navigating the perils of MacOS.

Thank you.

That article is very light on detail. I wanted to know if my government was represented, but the article doesn’t even show a list of all the countries participating.

Isn’t Bloomberg supposed to be the source of reliable global business information that’s informing the business leaders of the world, or is this just another random journalism by billionaire outfit?

I’ve been using Linux for over a quarter of a century. Initially I spent hours attempting to come up with the best partitioning scheme but these days I pick LVM and use the defaults.

If I run out of space, I add a drive (or grow the virtual one) and gow the filesystem into the extra space.

Sometimes I need temporary space and use sshfs to mount a directory from another machine.

In other words, today you have infinite options to adjust according to need, partition schemes are not nearly as important.

Even swap space can live as a file on a normal partition if required.

That said. If you have specific use cases, check what’s required. Specifically because different uses need different attributes, it pays to check.

Wallpaper, yeah, there’s a lot of that going around. The main feature discussed with the recent new release of apt discussed colour as the primary new feature. No mention of any actual substantive changes or reference to the impact on apt-get et al., or even a link to the detailed change log.

Obviously not everyone learnt from the pandemic…

With Google maps on many phones you should be able to get a good idea if this true or not.

Listening to the Wiggles over and over again will do that … 😁

I came across this just now.

The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA. Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners’ and stakeholders’ patience.

https://bsky.app/profile/metacurity.com/post/3lmwjbndmd22s

Only 378 vulnerabilities? Wonder how long they have been brewing?

Sounds like a quicker way to login to me. What’s the downside?

Before you answer “security”, need I remind you that Windows has to my knowledge not ever been secure, unless you count when it’s still on the installation media and not yet inserted into the machine … yes, I too have used packs of Windows floppy disks in the past. I might still have a few hundred in a drawer somewhere.

Which part of “this extension has access to all your data on all sites” is a surprise?

My excitement is muted by two things:

1. Every X11 application runs in the same Xserver, so there’s no isolation which would be a massive incentive for adoption.
2. Attempting to run anything Wayland inside a Docker container across the network is doomed to fail. RDP, VNC and the rest of these are a massive loss in functionality compared with X11 across the network.

I want this to work, but so far it just doesn’t.

In case you’re wondering, try running a GUI application on a remote server side by side with one running on another server on the same display and copy/paste data between the two.

What’s the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.