Tiny Core Linux
Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge => Topic started by: nick65go on October 01, 2025, 03:46:18 PM
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https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-old-problems-new-solutions.html
You can read in your spare time. If you like Linux then you like it with all its good and bad thinks (fragmentation).
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that was great. well worth the time to read and think about.
imho, linux rules the server world already and linux rules the "everyday_everyperson" world in the Alpha/Google android implimentation(Rob Pike of plan9 fame has worked at google for years now)
i don't know what the next "market winner" will be or look like, but unless it can replace/supplant the hardware/firmware/software that is ALREADY in everyone's pockets AND at the very same time is ALREADY running all the _wizard_of_oz_behind_the_curtain_server/cloud_stuff_ it probably doesn't stand a chance in hell.
as always, ymmv.
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also for the _who_is_this_person_ folks:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/about.html
Igor Ljubuncic reminds me of Michael W. Lucas
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/networking-for-system-administrators-2nd-edition/
modified to add additional commentary/weblink
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speaking of Alphabet/Google please see:
https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-registration-3591988/
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/25235-google-wants-to-verify-all-app-developers-identities
also reading/rereading those reminded me of another commentary i read just a few hours ago(another research project...sigh):
one post of note:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/bkrkz1/comment/emj9zjh/
greater thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/bkrkz1/is_there_anyway_that_you_can_bypass_facebook/
(and yes i know the facebook stuff is old news...smh)
and speaking regarding "social media" there is also this phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon) (love that word, kudos to Immanuel Kant):
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/129rca4/is_it_normal_to_not_get_hired_due_to_not_having_a/
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these articles can be served with a little alcohol to numb the (potential) anger or dissatisfaction about the evolution of Linux. YMMV.
"Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition" from February 1, 2026
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.final.html
the old one here " Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2023 edition"
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
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https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-old-problems-new-solutions.html
You can read in your spare time.
::)
oogle succeeded, and we're blind to the dozens if not thousands of Googlesque companies that no longer exist, and no one remembers anymore.
tbh Bethany (welcome to the party pall) McLean remembers writing a column titled "company's to watch" :o ... tho tbh this might have been during the goog accent !
https://youtu.be/EEuXIuk09Ns?t=205
ether way the lessons / conclusions ;
likely still relevant
"absolute power something something"
as the saying goes :-X
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https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years
Fragmentation will still be an issue (this one's a freebie)
See you in 2030 for the year of the Linux Desktop.
8)
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https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years
thanks for the heads-up!
all referenced works are informative and thought-provoking
(several hours worth of reading though...sigh)
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Active Directory is listed as a good thing? And Policy Editor can be easily used by a relative novice, or whatever the wording was? Now that's funny.
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Active Directory is listed as a good thing? And Policy Editor can be easily used by a relative novice, or whatever the wording was? Now that's funny.
(almost) all about M$windows is bad, because is closed-source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish)
But because someone paid for [renting, license] the software, then someone may have demands (even in court), or at least ask for maintenance, bug corrections etc.
For linux, because (almost) nobody wants to VOLUNTARY pay, we just meow /moan /comment. So yeah, is better :)
BTW, talking about linux fragmentation, neglecting main culprits wayland, systemd, pipewire, different package-managers, but now:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486
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https://hackaday.com/2026/03/27/using-firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi-before-linux-drops-support/#comments
especially wrt
we just meow /moan /comment.
some good explanation in the comments , replying to presumably disenchanted FW hw owners !
clarifying the reasoning / motivation or lack there of
from driver maintainers
and the lack of driver abi ! ;/