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Thread: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
Post: RE: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
| I would like to perform a personal PoC doing one workday from a MSX machine. I heard that PiterPunk ( #slackware ) did something like this before ... |
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Old school stuff
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15-08-2023, 12:52 AM |
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Thread: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Post: RE: Help needed to build a lookup tables
| [Image: https://seyler.ekstat.com/img/max/800/V/...293567.jpg] |
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Security & Cryptography
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15-08-2023, 12:48 AM |
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Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?
| At home I still use the good and old Thinkpad X220 ( that i5 , 16GB RAM , ~= 1TB SSB ) with a good FreeBSD ( I need a Windows virtual machine, so vmm won't fit yet :( ). At work the company lent me ... |
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Hardware talk
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09-08-2023, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
Post: RE: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
| Yeah, he has left us a legacy. Especially regarding to Open Source social responsibility. |
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Off topic
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09-08-2023, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| My first contact with GNU/Linux was about 17 years ago with Slackware at the college ( where I also worked at computer labs ). At that time there was a company in the city that used to work only with ... |
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wolf |
GNU/Linux
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66,958 |
02-08-2023, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| Okay. I've just discoverd the OCR-A. It's amazing. Looks great with scanlines and CRT emulation. <3 |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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02-08-2023, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
| - Portuguese (native) ;
- English (US) ;
- Italian ;
Now I'm trying to learn Russian ( to make a better interaction with my coworkers). I'm losing my mind. |
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Off topic
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28-07-2023, 05:38 PM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| I'm using Fantasque Sans Mono on XTerm. It has ligatures, emoji , most of unicode characters and fits well while browsing inside terminal . |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-07-2023, 05:34 PM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| For 2021 I'm trying to keep my mind working. Is being quite hard not only due to pandemic scenario, but due to personal issues too. Different from most of people I know, I used to be a monday lover an... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-01-2021, 03:43 AM |
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Thread: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable For *nix Users
Post: RE: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable F...
| I am not a big fan of Windows, but this system is mandatory in the company that I work for. I have no admin rights, there's a lot of surveillance ( as if using Microsoft wasn't enought ) and rules. Th... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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06-01-2021, 03:34 AM |
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Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2020
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2020
| Wow! That's amazing!
I want to see z3bra doing black magic with mutt(1) and html email! |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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27-10-2020, 03:33 AM |
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Thread: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Post: RE: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
| (04-09-2020, 08:57 AM)mcol Wrote: I am also big into math rock and neuroscience (my day job).
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Wow, nice ! Welcome to nixers! |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-09-2020, 10:57 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| I built OpenBSD kernel with spleen font (5x8). The result was great, but I got some "screen borders" on tty. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it.
[Image: https://i.ibb.co/2jsJ4G1/Screenshot-202007... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-07-2020, 06:15 AM |
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Thread: G'day
Post: RE: G'day
| (20-07-2020, 02:29 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: Currently I use BSD & Linux but I'm keen to learn more about other operating systems such as 9front and sculptOS
[Image: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.co... |
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23-07-2020, 06:04 AM |
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Thread: Hell again
Post: RE: Hell again
| EHLO Fre d die.
And welcome. Nice to see someone trying Gentoo, it's a lovely metadistro. |
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11-07-2020, 02:37 AM |
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Thread: Android server edition
Post: RE: Android server edition
| (07-07-2020, 04:29 AM)z3bra Wrote: Instead of being the asshole again and trying to get them use telegram or IRC, I decided to adapt, and bridge whatsapp with telegram and IRC, so I could lead the g... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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07-07-2020, 10:14 PM |
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Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
| Dear Unix diary,
Today I added desktop environment ( XFCE ) to my OpenBSD and did some tweaks ( wallpaper, composite, fonts, etcetera et al ) to make it look like a common workspace.
What a horrible... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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18-06-2020, 04:52 PM |
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Thread: Carte blanche
Post: RE: Carte blanche
| - NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- 9front
- Suckless
- Some ppl here at Nixers.net |
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Off topic
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15,817 |
18-06-2020, 04:46 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (18-06-2020, 03:13 PM)jkl Wrote: I admit that I hadn’t tested it on a real Solaris yet, but wouldn’t pkgsrc work?
Probably would work. But I can't due to some company rules. But I'll try it on OpenI... |
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wolf |
BSD
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18-06-2020, 04:45 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (06-06-2020, 05:15 PM)twee Wrote: I try and avoid bash where possible, in equal parts for being GNU and having such a high code:feature ratio. I know that they're both ideological things and don't a... |
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wolf |
BSD
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18-06-2020, 03:10 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (06-06-2020, 04:01 PM)jkl Wrote: You can install oksh which is (usually) the OpenBSD ksh...?
So, so.
Maybe at FreeBSD ( I haven't any installation now , but I'll test it sometime ), but Solaris is s... |
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wolf |
BSD
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18-06-2020, 03:08 PM |
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Thread: BSD Certification
Post: RE: BSD Certification
| Is quite hard to find *BSD courses, specially those turned to certification ( which is another issue ). Despite of a few months ago the addition of BSD certification to LPI hall , there's not much for... |
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wolf |
BSD
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18-06-2020, 12:44 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (06-06-2020, 10:48 AM)jkl Wrote: Which scripting capabilities does the ksh lack for you?Things like for loops and arrays are better implemented on bash. However, the best ksh I ever user is from O... |
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wolf |
BSD
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06-06-2020, 01:23 PM |
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Thread: Nixers.net
Post: RE: Nixers.net
| A place without academic peacocks and REAL stuff to learn and do. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-06-2020, 10:40 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| ksh on OpenBSD normally does the job. However, while using other systems bash is unbeatable due to its enormous scripting capabilities.
At least for me, lol. |
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wolf |
BSD
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06-06-2020, 10:38 AM |
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Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers
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wolf |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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06-06-2020, 10:36 AM |
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Thread: blogs
Post: RE: blogs
| (01-07-2019, 03:51 AM)z3bra Wrote: That is what make personnal websites cool: even their creation comes is personnal!
That's right. I wrote some notes using mkdocs but when I saw what Roman Zolotare... |
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The WWW
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14-05-2020, 12:39 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| Heeeeey... That's really a jewel .
I would like try this setup ASAP. If it work fine with me it will be the end of an entire odyssey. |
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wolf |
BSD
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13-05-2020, 09:14 AM |
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Thread: OpenBSD Native Hypervisor
Post: RE: OpenBSD Native Hypervisor
| Well, I was trying to run Windows on it a few months ago as a PoC by nesting virtualization with Alpine (KVM). One of these days I'll resume this masochistic adventure... |
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wolf |
BSD
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13-05-2020, 02:42 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| audio: mpg123/ffmpeg/cmus/mplayer
video: mplayer
files: coreutils
irc: weechat
shell: ksh
multiplexer: tmux
system monitor: ps / top
editor: vim
screenshot: ImageMagik
image viewer: ImageMagik
mail: ... |
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wolf |
BSD
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13-05-2020, 02:39 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (31-12-2019, 02:13 PM)z3bra Wrote: email: mu, mutt, isync, msmtp, webdump, ldapsearch and a lot of shell glue around it!Do you deal with multipart HTML messages ? |
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wolf |
BSD
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13-05-2020, 02:27 AM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
| Nowadays I got myself listening only instrumental demos. One, in special , is the Splinter by Sneaker Pimps. I'm really preferring music without voice lately ... |
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Off topic
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13-05-2020, 02:19 AM |
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Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?
| This nickname was given to me as a pseudonym long time ago , on a forgotten IRC server. |
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13-05-2020, 02:11 AM |
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Thread: Minimal Computing Principals
Post: RE: Minimal Computing Principals
| Okay, I can differ from them in some aspects but ... I really love this mindset ( despite of git pulls , lol ) |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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13-05-2020, 02:09 AM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
| (08-05-2020, 05:11 AM)twee Wrote: It took me a long time to realise that OpenBSD was what I was looking for but I'm very glad I did.
There it is! |
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13-05-2020, 02:03 AM |
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Thread: Programming book recommendations.
Post: RE: Programming book recommendations.
| I really liked the "21st Century C". Ben Klemens really has a comic style when writing, without lose the technical aspects of the book purpose. |
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Programming On Unix
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10,553 |
13-05-2020, 01:59 AM |
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Thread: Fonts and colors.
Post: RE: Fonts and colors.
| I'm using the console default font from OpenBSD : Spleen.
Despite of being very big, its comfortable to read ( especially with URxvt*letterSpace:1 ) |
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wolf |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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13-05-2020, 01:49 AM |
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Thread: Time and Time on Unix
Post: RE: Time and Time on Unix
| Great article, Venam.
And share it is the right thing to do. <done>. |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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13-05-2020, 01:44 AM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| jkl Wrote: Refreshing workflow improvement: Getting rid of LaTeX.
http://www.danielallington.net/2016/09/t...ex-fetish/
So you're getting rid of LaTex but using something else instead it ?
I'm think... |
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wolf |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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118,783 |
22-07-2019, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| Now enjoying Elinks ( elinks-0.13-20190627 ) on my OpenBSD 6.5 ( current ) with :
- youtube-dl + mplayer ( youtube videos )
- youtube-dl + ffmpeg + mpg123 ( youtube audios )
The build was okay with ... |
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wolf |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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118,783 |
16-07-2019, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: What's your favorite book?
Post: RE: What's your favorite book?
| 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School
Really fun and engaging. One of my best acquisitions. |
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wolf |
Off topic
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18,865 |
25-06-2019, 07:10 PM |
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Thread: What's your favorite book?
Post: RE: What's your favorite book?
| (23-06-2019, 05:16 PM)Deathbox Wrote: Automate the boring stuff with Python. Non computer related? Harry potter series for sure.Hey! That's an awesome book! |
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wolf |
Off topic
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18,865 |
25-06-2019, 07:08 PM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
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wolf |
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25-06-2019, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: hi
Post: RE: hi
| Hello friend.
Welcome to nixers _ |
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wolf |
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22-05-2019, 10:28 PM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| OpenBSD
Well, OpenBSD cwm is great, but I was really missing the real multi workplace provided by dwm ( and dmenu ) . One cool thing : their config.mk is really a good thing to see. They were carefu... |
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wolf |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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22-05-2019, 10:13 PM |