[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, I heard you are saying about privacy. The programs you are using have unlimited access to your filesystem if you do not sandbox it.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by scratchandgame@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

(for anyone who do not know, bc is a "arbitrary-precision arithmetic language". its syntax is similar to C)

Gavin Howard's bc (bc-gh) is adopted by busybox, toybox, FreeBSD, Android, macOS for its robustness and superior performance. It is also shipped with Gentoo Linux; LFS also use bc-gh.

Even though bc-gh is more robust and updated, Linux distros other than Gentoo and Fedora do not package it it. bc-gh is not available on Arch (available on AUR), Debian and perhaps all of its derivative. The reason seems to be a licensing reason: bc-gh is under the BSD license.

bc-gh is clearly superior to GNU bc, Gavin Howard's benchmark show that bc-gh is faster than GNU bc in most case, while bc-gh actually do more work than GNU bc.

Today I tested GNU bc and bc-gh. I let they do this operation: (1024*1024)^(1024*1024). GNU bc give me the answer in five minutes, bc-gh give me the answer in two minutes.

GNU bc do not have a repository. All development happen in private, and we can't make sure it is still maintained. The latest version is 1.07 from 2017. bc-gh have a public repository and it is actively maintained.

So it is clear that other Linux distro not adopting bc-gh is purely licensing reason. They reject software not under the GPL license, even if they are more robust and more performant.

We need a campaign to raise awareness about superior software alternatives. We need to stop Linux distro for not adopting superior and updated softwares for licensing reasons.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

BSD developers: who cares about that. And, it is already happen. Android libc use lots of code of OpenBSD libc. OpenSSH is used everywhere.

GNU's ssh implementation seems to be some abandoned trash, even though it was started in 1998, before OpenSSH. If OpenSSH doesnt exist, we can hope that everyone will be using differently broken ssh implementations; I'd expect gnu ssh to be a buggy, unreliable implementation which support hundreds of thounsands of flags and configuration options. Workers everywhere will be punished because of their buggy implementation of ssh. Why workers in every companies have to make their own ssh implementation? They should be doing something else.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just words of extreme nationalists.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

A garbage to run ads again. Everyone already knows the myths and they don't need the same post to pop up every year.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

the phone world is fucked. Use a landline phone :)

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submitted 8 months ago by scratchandgame@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Distributions like RHEL and Debian freeze packages, you will have to use old package when the newer is available. I think these distributions is just for highly mission-critical system, they have to run software smoothly, no breakage. Most personal computer don't need that stability.

Can anyone explain more about what a stable distributions mean?

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

you would expect them to provide drivers for their hardware

I'd correct: we would expect them to provide at least documentation.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why we have to care much about software usage. This is the current issue of linux communities, which decrease user qualities.

Our enemy Microsoft and other "big tech" laugh people like these. They are using linux just like they use windows, even bring the bad, flawed windows culture to linux.

Don't let the enemy to laugh at us.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

+1

Telling people to just drop Nvidia is delusional

We can tell people that is going to buy a new computer to avoid nvidia :)

It’s Linux desktop contributers problem to fix.

We can't write drivers for platforms that we don't have documentation. linux desktop contributors dropping support for nvidia entirely is not a bad decision, though

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

WHY THERE ARE NOT.

Please have a partition for /home. In fact, you need partition for /usr, /var,.. too

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

It doesn't make any sense.

Why staying on old package for unnecessary stability (that stability is for highly "mission critical" things).

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Why not put everything in one big partition

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=154054091026039&w=3

A comment: The guy who make that video might be a troll, I reviewed his videos' titles.

And such bullshit is much more accessible in plain text form.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Alpine Linux.

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