Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)

Before you receive your answer the bureaucracy will have to calculate the minute but measurable and nonzero opportunity cost associated with any possible profit into the indefinite future so that this can be weighed against the cost of doing the obvious, straightforward answer to the particular governance question you meekly enquired about a few years earlier.

The thing is that if a FOSS project happened to have the ill fortune of starting its life as the side project of a Google employee, getting the obvious, straightforward answer to important governance questions requires supplicating oneself before a hulking behemoth of bureaucracy designed to spy on everyone, undermine democracy, and launder accountability for all decision-making.

And I don't really like that!

I've heard a lot of free speech absolutists defending hate speech but I've never seen one question the legitimacy of an NDA 🤔

Okay, that's it for RMS tonight.

@mntmn very nice! ship it with that pre-installed please :3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences

Ladybird promises to be different from the other browsers, and I would be excited for it... but putting their development process on Discord makes me ask: will it really be?

GitHub I can reluctantly forgive, Discord and Twitter much less so.

@mntmn
git stash # put everything away
git stash pop # put everything back

@mntmn I thought about porting quake

Main issue is that when you move the cursor left across a line, the characters to the right of the cursor disappear

Pretty puzzling one

(it does not work very well)

Tidied up the port and the vt code, bundled it up all nice, and added ncurses and vim 5.7 to the base system

less also builds and works with minimal changes, might add that as well

Got it

Day 26:

* Finished implementing poll(2)
* Finished terminal emulation and a crappy termios implementation
* Ported ncurses
* Ported vim 5.7
* Ported less
* Ported mandoc

Have to integrate doom into the optional software sets, write some documentation, clean up bits and pieces here and there, and fix a couple of bugs, and then I'm happy to call that Bunnix 1.0.

Additional software that I have gotten to run on Bunnix but which hasn't been packaged and/or added to the base system:

* Doom
* binutils
* gcc and g++
* qbe
* less
* cowsay
* lua
* libarchive

Anything else I should try?

So far today: mostly polish

The initramfs is now gzipped, zlib added to the EFI bootloader to decompress it, some man pages added, vt performance and capabilities improved considerably, colossal cave adventure port added to base system

Here's the latest iso if anyone wants to try it out:

https://files.catbox.moe/ral8q8.iso

You don't want to write an NVMe driver, you don't want to write an NVMe driver, just polish it and call it done Drew

Ready to call this done, at least for now.

Now to write a blog post about it

Final count: 27 days of work

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom bunnix.iso [-display sdl] [-serial stdio]

Should work on most AMD64 hardware with EFI or legacy boot