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[?]The whale » 🌐
@thewhalecc@framapiaf.org

𝗡𝗶𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘅:

thewhale.cc/posts/nitrux

Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu suitable for laptops and desktop computers. Nitrux provides all the benefits of the Ubuntu operating system combined with a focus on portable, redistributable application formats like AppImages. Nitrux uses the LTS branch of Ubuntu as a basis using only the core system and then slowly building up to ensure a clean user experience.

Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu suitable for laptops and desktop computers. Nitrux provides all the benefits of the Ubuntu operating system combined with a focus on portable, redistributable application formats like AppImages. Nitrux uses the LTS branch of Ubuntu as a basis using only the core system and then slowly building up to ensure a clean user experience.

Alt...Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu suitable for laptops and desktop computers. Nitrux provides all the benefits of the Ubuntu operating system combined with a focus on portable, redistributable application formats like AppImages. Nitrux uses the LTS branch of Ubuntu as a basis using only the core system and then slowly building up to ensure a clean user experience.

    [?]Coralie Renée » 🌐
    @globcoco@mamot.fr

    Heya...

    I keep on exploring degoogled phones.

    I saw the Iode OS.

    No idea if it is really good or not...

    Nor if they deliver in Spain...

    Anyone using it?

    iode.tech/

      [?]The whale » 🌐
      @thewhalecc@framapiaf.org

      𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗦:

      thewhale.cc/posts/elementary-os

      The fast, open, and privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS.

      The fast, open, and privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS.

      Alt...The fast, open, and privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS.

        [?]amen zwa, esq. » 🌐
        @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz

        The periodic between 1960s and 1990s was the Cambrian Explosion of architecture and .

        A single manufacturer, DEC, alone, had RSTS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSX-11, VMS, Ultrix, OSF/1, and several other OSs I no longer recall. And DEC had a slew of different CPU architectures, and they each ran many other OSs made by various software companies. Also, there were loads of other hardware makers, large and small, each with a flock of different CPUs and a gaggle of different OSs.

        In those days, we bitterly protested against this excess of “diversity”, on the grounds of software incompatibility, development impedance, and investment cost.

        Finally, we now have that much-vaunted “uniformity” we always desired: Slackware Linux, Debian Linux, Fedora Linux, SUSE Linux, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Arch Linux, NixOS Linux, SELinux, …, @$&*, and they all run on the .

        😞 😖

          [?]amen zwa, esq. » 🌐
          @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz

          These are some of the great textbooks to teach to undies:

          • V6, Lions
          • SVR2, Bach
          • MINIX3, Tanenbaum
          • Xinu, Comer
          • xv6 (V6 clone), Cox

          But there is a space to create an even smaller, sleeker, simpler, study OS:

          • Barebones 32-bit OS that runs on a cheap Cortex-M3 board (STM32 Blue Pill) or RISC-V board (ESP32-C6)
          • Keep the code under 10k lines of C (or Ada, Rust, Zig, ...)
          • Support only UNIX-like soft-realtime scheduling (no RTOS)
          • Support user and kernel modes
          • Multiplex the single-core CPU to multiple processes
          • Map a handful of interrupts to signals
          • Provide a subset of the POSIX API, just enough to run a simple I/O executable (button pushy/LED blinky) in multiple processes, simultaneously
          • Single-user (root only) operation
          • No security, accounting, etc.
          • Shell on a terminal emulator, via a USB-TTL adapter

          The goal is to create a smallest, simplest, bona fide OS for the cheapest ($0.99) hardware, so as to steer kids away from Scratch, MicroPython, Processing, and similar other harmful influences, during the early phase of their system education.

          To make explicit the implicit premise above, the marvellous Arduino teaches the kids to do the easy thing repeatedly, but a comparative-joke C64 forces the kids to do the right thing persistently.

          It is infeasible to teach, in detail, the essentials of an OS (scheduling algorithms, process management, memory management, memory protection, authentication, authorisation, encryption, disc I/O, network I/O, graphics I/O, ...) in just one semester.

          In contrast, the kids could master the above mentioned focused curriculum in just one semester, thereby gaining much confidence in system .

            [?]Woodoo Prod » 🌐
            @WoodooProd@mastodon.cloud

            I tried one time.. and all go bad installing it.

            MSDOS is better for me..

            But I will try one more time..


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              [?]OCTADE » 🌐
              @octade@soc.octade.net

              Linux is married to AI hegemony. It's time for a new and better OS. Skift might become a candidate:

              SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/

              It's not a *NIX!

              "skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas, different contracts."

              Problem: the GPL is poison. It has polluted Linux and the Linux userland software so that only large corporations can afford to monetize it. BSD License or MIT License would be much better allowing small players to produce unique work without then being forced to share their source code with the AI hegemony racket.


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