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jmc, 2 months ago to random

lol, kicking the tyres on Arch Linux on my least important laptop. Ran "pacman -Syu", it appeared to succeed. Rebooted. Stuck in a reboot loop with "Welcome to GRUB!" flashing up very briefly. It's amazing that they've recreated the desktop Linux experience of twenty years prior, just like that!

jmc, 4 months ago to random

A small PSA, where the S really stands for my sanity:

It's "illumos". In lower case.

Not "Illumos", and absolutely under no circumstances is it "IllumOS". It's just not. Wikipedia even says so.

This message brought to you by another round of our remote UNIX hamlet being noticed from the bright lights of "Hacker" "News".

jmc, 9 months ago to random

Squash-and-merge sounds like something that happens at a laundromat.