https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(service)

(“Russian Facebook” is pretty accurate.)

Yeah, same for German “wuff”. The pronunciation is slightly softer in “woof”, but there’s no letters you could use to make it sound more similar.

Yeah, basically if you want to play Morrowind, at this point you want to do so by using OpenMW. You do need to own the original game, but OpenMW makes it much easier to run on modern operating systems and has lots of quality-of-life improvements, like higher resolution, higher viewing distance, as well as most loading times eliminated.

From what I understand, on Debian and therefore presumably also Devuan, the system-wide default shell is dash. So, sh symlinks to dash.

But dash is virtually unusable for interactive use, so they configure the terminal emulator to launch bash on start-up.

In effect, scripts get executed with dash by default, but commands you type into a terminal get run by bash.

Oh, huh, I saw the release announcement for Fedora 44 explicitly mention Plasma 6.6, so I figured it was tied to the release. 🫠

Yeah, it should come with the next Fedora release, which is scheduled for October 20th.

Feature updates, like this new Plasma version, get shipped every half year on Fedora. In between, you mostly just get security and bug fixes…

I find that setting the power profile to “Power-Saver” makes a huge difference.

KDE has support for that built-in, although I’m not sure, if distributions install the corresponding daemon on desktop systems: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon

You should be able to cycle through power profiles with Meta+B on KDE.
You can also see and change the profile via the systray icon for the battery, but on a desktop system, that presumably won’t be shown by default.

Otherwise, powerprofilesctl is also an option, as described in that link.

It was one of the stated goals for Servo itself to be designed like that. But I don’t think anyone at Mozilla expected Servo to take over from Gecko. They were already quite happy that they were able to incorporate Servo’s style engine and URL bar implementation and such into Gecko.

I don’t think that’s quite right. The Linux kernel, Firefox and Chromium all sit around 30 millions lines of code, last I checked, so if you add the rest of the operating system, it should still have more lines of code than the browser.

But yes, similar order of magnitude.

Their point is that the maintainer did not sign a contract that requires them to perform maintainer duties. They can choose to stop doing it at any point. They can choose to axe a feature that you deem essential. They can choose to rewrite the project in COBOL for the fun of it.

You may not like it, but that is how it is.
The only legal document involved is the license and any open-source license I’ve seen so far, has stated that the program is provided as is.

This is the license under which rsync is provided: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
See sections 15 and 16.

The only way you get to have a say in the matter, is by forking and becoming a maintainer yourself.

Hmm, seems to work like you want for me. Using Plasma 6.6 with the icons-only task manager…

Coming at it from the Rust ecosystem, I’d primarily opt for uploading release binaries somewhere. You don’t particularly need a setup script, since Rust programs are generally self-contained.

Publishing a package in addition to that really isn’t hard, but would be my secondary choice, since users are not likely to have cargo on their system.
Well, and cargo compiles on the target machine, which is great for supporting unusual architectures, but you may have C libraries included where it’s just a gamble whether you can compile them on a given target system.

Should perhaps add that you can generally run Linux distributions off of a USB stick for that first impression.

Just follow a tutorial for how to install Linux and when you see the actual installer on screen, you can just close the installer without installing and then click around in the UI.

It will be slow, because it’s running off that slow USB connection, but otherwise this is pretty much the operating system as it is when fully installed.

Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.

Sharknado

I heard “dick jousting” before…

To stave off bigots.

Strictly necessary for SuperTuxKart.

…Of course, mascots are not *needed*. But there’s no cost associated with them. And folks in the community enjoy them. It would be irrational to not have mascots.

I hear they have a surplus in the Mojave desert…

I always recommend Oh My Git.