Notices by Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)

@Linux4Everyone Now I'm curious how Snapdragon X stuff will work with proton on steam, etc, from Linux.

Google News missed what day it is 😂

@itsfoss

A VM vending machine at #SCaLE21x! You put in a dollar, select your distro, and it creates a VM you can ssh into.

#Linux

Here's a #fediverse tip: You don't and to choose between #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Calckey, etc. Just like you might have had a Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook account before, you can have separate accounts on each platform. It's just that integrations between these things on the fediverse are generally easier by design.

@mos_8502 I have one! Belonged to my grandfather and it's the first family computer we had! Still all works!

AT&T's own litigiousness helped make Unix obscure for the biggest emerging market for the time and instead helped Microsoft gain significant market ground on their own turf. It's not that Unix-proper is or was irrelevant, but it went from being ubiquitous to niche due to the missed or squandered opportunities, which led to the rise of Linux as the major alternative.

If it weren't for lawyers being arbitrarily involved in things they shouldn't be, there's an excellent chance that we'd all be running BSD and Microsoft wouldn't have been nearly so dominant without BSD being legally sidelined in the early 90's, which gave Linux a very timely foothold, despite having to quickly reverse engineer a whole lot of what BSD long already had.

It was sort of the Oracle vs Google of its day, except that Oracle vs Google didn't stop people from buying, selling, or using Android devices.

"Of the 18,000 files in the Berkeley distribution, only three had to be removed and 70 modified to show USL copyright notices."

The resulting code base from the removal of those three files was the basis for FreeBSD and NetBSD (and OpenBSD, etc., later by extension).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution

This effectively kept FOSS *NIX sidelined from the consumer market in the early 90s, meaning that Microsoft was left to mainly compete with other DOS based systems, which made Apple the obscure one among the many otherwise compatible offerings at HH Greg or Babbages.

Interestingly enough, when the dust settled on the lawsuit, Microsoft themselves incorporated BSD network stack code into their emerging Windows NT platform (and even offered a POSIX subsystem for it).

I got #kubevirt up and running with #podman and #kind on my #Fedora #Kinoite box today and deployed a Fedora Cloud image on it. It still feels like a lot of extra overhead having #Kubernetes manage the hypervisor.