๐ท Here's a fun photo from last year's 'Critical Mass' book tour. After wrapping up a wonderful book signing event at Books Inc. (Palo Alto), friends and fans joined up to carry on the night. It was a great evening full of lively conversation and stories to share.
*Photo: Gavin, Daniel, Kevin, Jim, Jordy, Joseph, Michelle, Mark
@glynmoody Your articles and especially "Rebel Code" introduced me to Linux and this whole idea of Libre/Open Source. Thanks for providing the new book as a downloadable DRM-free epub. Looking forward to reading!
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With the release of Debian 12, I decided that - instead of my usual setup of Xorg + Openbox - I would explore Wayland and a different desktop environment.
After making the switch to Sway and using it on both Linux and FreeBSD I find myself liking it very much!
Sway quickly gets you 90% towards a usable desktop. Its that 10% where you're crafting your own desktop just the way you like it that takes some experimenting!
After performing a few installs of FreeBSD, these are my personal notes of steps taken and choices made. A distilled, short and sweet version of Chapter 2 in the FreeBSD Handbook.
Hardware used is a Thinkpad T480s with 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and Intel integrated ethernet/wireless/gpu. Architecture is 'amd64'.
There is always more than one way to do it. This is mine. ๐
@thindil Yes ... I imagine Firefox would be a beast of a compile on a 10-year old Thinkpad!
I won't be continuing onward to BLFS, though. I'm doing LFS as a straightforward learning exercise in the basic building blocks of a Linux system and compiling software. And for that purpose its proving to be illuminating.
Debian 12 aka "Bookworm" is the latest stable release of the popular Linux operating system. I use Debian's network installer image to create a minimal, console-only base configuration that can be customized for various tasks, servers, and desktops: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/minimal-debian/
Will those voices in my head please give it a rest !
Tempting to try a #VoidLinux#bcachefs install on an old laptop or pc now it's officially made it into the Linux 6.7 kernel. You know just for research purposes you understand. Like seeing how it compares to my daily drivers #ZFS filesystem. ๐ค
One feature I've come to love in the foot terminal: press ctrl+shift+o to enter URL mode, where all currently visible URLs are tagged with a label using a letter key that will open the URL in Firefox.