Awesome to see more rifts and schisms forming in open source. Fragmentation is our greatest strength. Anyway I'm gonna go buy some MSFT and AAPL stock
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Looks like that Perifractic guy actually* bought** Commodore*** https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html
*not him, but some angel investors
**they haven't come up with the money yet
***seems like it's mainly the trademark rights they're after in order to monetise them
Commodore as we know it was a company made up of a certain crowd of people during a certain period of time that released certain products that enabled a bunch of people to have their first computer experiences. That time and many of those people are dead and gone. Slapping a C= logo on something today doesn't bring back your childhood. I think we should let dead things stay dead out of respect, but maybe that's just me.
Incidentally, I still have a few blank CD-Rs with Commodore logos on them which I picked up in NL 15 years ago as a novelty for like €1. I guess the B.V. was willing to sell the logo on anything.
If you need a fun novelty lightweight window manager for something, consider progman. Looks like Windows 3.1, works on OpenBSD and Linux.
Ariadne Conill 🐰
#wayback, a small project gluing together wayland components to turn Xwayland into a full X environment, is now published: https://github.com/kaniini/wayback
there's definitely a gazillion bugs, which will need work across the entire stack to solve.
however, unlike Xlibre, this is a sustainable path that is intended to reduce the number of X components in distributions.
Jamie Zawinski has now blocked me on Mastodon for responding to his uncredited The Onion post with a note that the story was 'Hilarious, but a work of fiction'. (I did in fact click the link, and there's nothing there but the verbatim story.)
Truly, never meet your heroes.
If Stallman had his way, we would be running LiGNUx, which lends itself nicely to the tagline 'LiGNUx: rock solid'
Also lig bofa deez nux
Lost opportunities...
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as OpenBSD, is in fact, GNU/OpenBSD, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus OpenBSD. OpenBSD is not an operating system unto itself but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system
My apologies to Theo for the unspeakable things I'm doing to his fine operating system
I'm starting to think my python performance issue was actually just me using my zen4 laptop on Wi-Fi when the other two systems are wired in at gigE
anyway fire's out
Paul