rascul's comments

On: What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

[rascul]

gettext took over 30 years to get to 1.0 last month.

On: Bash scripts are brittle – simple error handling in bash

[rascul]

Tcl is great

[shawn_w → rascul]

Unironically, tcl is great as an upgrade from shell.

On: Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

[rascul]

EulerOS was certified UNIX some years ago.

[stephenr → rascul]

Huh, TIL. Thanks.

On: Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table

[rascul]

It is not obsolete. It's also useful for other things.

On: Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table

[rascul]

> Swap files are a pain

Easier than partitions:

    mkswap --size 2G --file swap.img
    swapon swap.img

[ZoomZoomZoom → rascul]

Yeah, until you need to hibernate to one. I understand that calculating file offsets is not rocket science, but still, all the dance required is not exactly uninvolved and feels a bit fragile.

On: Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic

[rascul]

KDE has already created a browser engine, a browser, and a JavaScript engine.

[pseudalopex → rascul]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814523

On: AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release

[rascul]

Maybe it's available but you don't realize it.

[bandrami → rascul]

Maybe. Sounds like a real marketing failure in that case

On: AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release

[rascul]

Only 12?

On: Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

[rascul]

X11 to Wayland was painless for me. I guess it depends on what you need from it.

On: Linux from Scratch

[rascul]

> I think that Gentoo or even Arch would provide pretty close to the same education level, though, with a lot less time to install.

it only takes three commands to install Gentoo

cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6

that's the first one

https://web.archive.org/web/20230601013339/http://bash.org/?...

[djhworld → rascul]

I remember playing with Gentoo back in 2004-2005, going through the installation procedure from "stage 1" all the way through to the working system [1]

It looks like nowadays the handbook says just go from stage 3, which makes sense - compiling everything was kinda stupid :D

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041013055338/http://www.gentoo...

[porl → djhworld]

I made the mistake of hitting from stage 1 an `emerge world` on a Pentium 3 (I think? P4 at the very best) with a full Open Office and Firefox selection.

No idea how long it would take.

One week later I finally saw my new desktop!

I learnt a hell of a lot with Gentoo - only had a dvd and the magazine it came with stepping through the stage 1 install process. No internet connection to search for answers when things went wrong. Not my current daily driver but definitely some good memories!

[hulitu → rascul]

> it only takes three commands to install Gentoo

> cfdisk /dev/hda

Kids those days. You need to _boot_ first in a system which has those utilities. Also hda is from last century but, it is good for learning why.