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Thread: this week work?
Post: RE: this week work?
I have started to design a concatenative programming language, so i will probably dedicate this week for this (syntax, sematics, compiler/interpreter). |
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25-08-2020, 11:09 PM |
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Thread: Building code, applying recipes?
Post: RE: Building code, applying recipes?
I use make ("Makefile" and "config.mk") as it works for me and it's simple when compared to the more usual choices (like autohell). The only alternative (from the ones that i know) that i would consid... |
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eadwardus |
Programming On Unix
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25-08-2020, 10:56 PM |
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Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
wow, a lot of people in here know more than two languages.
English (fluent)
Portuguese (fluent)
to increase the numbers and look smarter than i actually am:
Spanish (able to understand, mostly)
German... |
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eadwardus |
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25-08-2020, 10:25 PM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
Considering that all would be accepting money.
- Myself : )
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- 9front
- Skarnet
- Arcan (Display Server)
- C Compilers Alternatives (cproc, scc, etc.)
And maybe a lot of random small... |
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eadwardus |
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05-07-2020, 03:34 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
I use mksh as interactive shell, and rc/posix shell to write scripts. But for me, any shell with auto-completion serves its purpose as interactive shell, as i usually use it only to run commands. |
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eadwardus |
BSD
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05-07-2020, 03:08 PM |
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Thread: package management discussion
Post: RE: package management discussion
I wrote a package manager: https://github.com/eltanin-os/venus
Complemented by a ports-like {source-based package manager/build system}: https://github.com/eltanin-os/ports
It fetches, does a integri... |
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eadwardus |
Programming On Unix
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05-07-2020, 02:32 PM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
Most of the packing drama comes from the use of dynamic linking; otherwise converting the packages would be more than enough (or patching pkgsrc to build packages). The "new" "solutions" flatpack, app... |
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eadwardus |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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22-01-2020, 09:24 PM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: RE: My new distro "Glacies"
Those cited codes are doing memory alignment, the internal variable "->a" is used to check if there's enough space to hold more data, while a similar check is done by the malloc implementation:
mus... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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19-01-2020, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: RE: My new distro "Glacies"
(13-01-2020, 08:42 PM)josuah Wrote: I like the hierarchical naming.It was chosen to avoid name collision (one of the standard libc "sins") and to organize related sections.
(13-01-2020, 09:12 PM)j... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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15-01-2020, 04:31 PM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
(01-01-2020, 02:48 PM)z3bra Wrote: Why did you choose OSS4 for sound?I like the API, also eliminates the need of PA to play sound from multiple sources.
(01-01-2020, 02:48 PM)z3bra Wrote: Also, yo... |
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eadwardus |
BSD
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01-01-2020, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
music: mpd + mpc
irc client: weechat
video: mpv
sound: oss4
image: feh
editor: vi
email: -
screenshot: scrot
terminal emulator: st
shell: mksh, rc
password: masterpassword
backup: luck, tarballs + gz
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eadwardus |
BSD
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01-01-2020, 12:05 AM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: RE: My new distro "Glacies"
Update: Did a little more detailed description of the project[0], with a few examples and videos (qemu+ncurses recorded with asciinema), of the project. Later i will make a more detailed post about Gl... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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31-12-2019, 11:52 PM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: RE: My new distro "Glacies"
(10-12-2019, 08:48 PM)josuah Wrote: Hello, Dan Berstein-style libc, happy to see you around! scanf()? No thank you!
I have never seen Dan Bernstein-style code crafting an Operating System, and I am ... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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11-12-2019, 03:28 AM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: RE: My new distro "Glacies"
(10-12-2019, 04:25 AM)z3bra Wrote: Why did you choose to reimplement it all (libc + coreutils) over using something like musl + sbase from suckless ?The libc is simply because i am already building ... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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10-12-2019, 11:52 AM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: RE: My new distro "Glacies"
(09-12-2019, 01:54 PM)bouncepaw Wrote: Really cool! Have you tried Wayland? I heard it's simpler, maybe you can link it successfully.Is in my list of alternatives to consider, but i am being a littl... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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09-12-2019, 11:59 PM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: RE: The userland problems
(25-11-2019, 06:33 AM)venam Wrote: One part of the subject that wasn't brought up is the different between inherent/essential complexity to a problem and invented/accidental/unnecessary complexity.
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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08-12-2019, 04:09 PM |
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Thread: My new distro "Glacies"
Post: My new distro "Glacies"
I'm building an operating system, or so is the intention, and i have started with the userland (which should run upon any posix system) as it were the thing, specially on Linux, that i were more disco... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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08-12-2019, 03:55 PM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: RE: The userland problems
(25-11-2019, 04:28 AM)z3bra Wrote: I tend to disagree, simplicity of a tool can have a direct impact on its usage.Simplicity of design doesn't dictate how friendly is the interface. Modern computers... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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25-11-2019, 06:02 AM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: RE: The userland problems
(23-11-2019, 05:28 AM)z3bra Wrote: Drew Devault made a website to track simplicity of projects, (supposedly) based on the functionality rather than softwares names: https://arewesimpleyet.org.Intere... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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25-11-2019, 03:06 AM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: RE: The userland problems
(09-11-2019, 05:45 PM)Wildefyr Wrote: People should have choice, but they shouldn't be locked into once they've made it.I agree, projects could give a little more care to reduce the amount of hard d... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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16-11-2019, 07:54 PM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: RE: The userland problems
(07-11-2019, 07:55 PM)jkl Wrote: TL;DR: GNU sucks. Everyone knows that. Few people care enough.GNU is usually fast, the code has good algorithms, the problem is that they don't care about SLOC and h... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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08-11-2019, 05:53 PM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: RE: The userland problems
(07-11-2019, 02:29 AM)venam Wrote: While the most common userland tools can be bloated for some usagesBeing bloated for a specific use is one thing, what i see happening is little to no care about r... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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07-11-2019, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: The userland problems
Post: The userland problems
Most of the "standard" linux userland (in here i'm referring to the most fundamental parts), in my opinion, suffers from bad quality implementations and/or interfaces.
For example the current "standar... |
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eadwardus |
GNU/Linux
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06-11-2019, 09:14 PM |
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Thread: Hello there
Post: RE: Hello there
(06-11-2019, 12:52 AM)venam Wrote: Welcome to nixers. (06-11-2019, 02:15 PM)jkl Wrote: Welcome to nixers! (06-11-2019, 06:21 PM)z3bra Wrote: Also welcome here, you'll fit like a glove!Thanks
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eadwardus |
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06-11-2019, 08:19 PM |
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Thread: Hello there
Post: Hello there
Hello there, i saw the the forum sometime in the past and now decided to participate, as i'm interested in unix(-like) systems, specially now that i'm building my own (i have started by the userland, ... |
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eadwardus |
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05-11-2019, 05:58 PM |