Realistically only macOS runs on Macs, Linux worked on the early M series but not later models, as far as I know.
In Australia, it wouldn't even need to be a used PC. The Steam Machine is $1600 AUD here, you can get a brand new gaming PC for that. Not a particularly amazing machine of course, but you can walk into a shop and buy it…
Made me think of Breadbox Ensemble, which is GEOS, and was really lovely.
Free OS updates is the norm now though. If you'd bought a Windows PC 7 years ago, or used Linux, or just about any other desktop OS, you'd have had free updates.
The Framework 12 look lovely, I like the design a lot, but like other Framework computers, it's just far too expensive for what it is. The processor inside it is approaching 4 years old and wasn't a good processor at…
This seems as much like "sleep" as when a laptop "sleeps".
I thought the same. If it had a Kia badge on it, it wouldn't shock me, and I think Kia make some quite nice cars now. I don't like the interior. I think this style can work for some things, it reminds me of a NuPhy…
Indeed it is subjective, I think the "Krups" was beautiful.
We had this at a job I had many years ago. We had a Sun Niagara system with some Sun Rays attached, and I had a Sun Ray laptop at home, on the other side of the world. Office in London, home in Melbourne. It wasn't even…
If I was going to write something for free, it would some weird itch-scratching thing for Plan 9 or something, it wouldn't be something most people would ever want. Realistically though, I'm not going to build software…
That's what I mean, no actual processor model.
They're 18650 cells, a bit bigger than AA.
GPUs existed in the 1960s, but apparently Sony invented the actual term "GPU" in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#1990s
Glad to see I'm not the only person that noticed the lack of SGI stuff.
Agree, and this is my point. Apple absolutely has a very clear message on how developers should make software, but as you say, developers often do not care. I am a desktop app "believer" I like desktop apps, I like…
When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop. That's fine, except no platform answers this. Obviously Linux doesn't, but the Mac doesn't either.…
Safari is a monopoly on iOS and iPadOS, that's a problem if you want to make a bleeding-edge PWA app, in that it's probably not going to work very well on iPad and iPhone and there is no web alternative on those…
I haven't used Solaris since the last time I used it for work over 10 years ago. Agree ZFS and Zones are both exceptional, I would still use Solaris now where it made sense.
I don't think anybody suggests Oracle couldn't make faster SPARC processors, it's just that development of SPARC ended almost 10 years ago. At the time SPARC was abandoned, it was very competitive.
I was really surprised by the s390x performance, but I also don't really understand why there are build time listed by architecture, not the actual processors.
I tried ReactOS a little while ago, in some ways it's closer than it feels to being acceptable as a daily driver, in others it's quite far away. I like the idea of there being more alternatives Operating Systems that…
It's free, it has support for loads of languages, and it's kind of fashionable. Personally I'm kind of lukewarm on VS Code, it's fine, but CLion, Visual Studio Proper, and RustRover are better for me. I see why people…
Small company, < 50 people, industrial automation. Machine not locked down at all, I could install OS/2 and nobody would care.
That's why it's a research OS, a lot of people (or at least some) think that the current range of mainstream OS are not very well designed, and we can do better. I'm not saying Plan 9 is the alternative, but it is kind…
Agree, this is absurd, I have plenty of websites I use that are productive or mindful or otherwise tick the boxes this company wants ticked, but the idea that I can't view them on my phone just immediately rules it out.…
Realistically only macOS runs on Macs, Linux worked on the early M series but not later models, as far as I know.
In Australia, it wouldn't even need to be a used PC. The Steam Machine is $1600 AUD here, you can get a brand new gaming PC for that. Not a particularly amazing machine of course, but you can walk into a shop and buy it…
Made me think of Breadbox Ensemble, which is GEOS, and was really lovely.
Free OS updates is the norm now though. If you'd bought a Windows PC 7 years ago, or used Linux, or just about any other desktop OS, you'd have had free updates.
The Framework 12 look lovely, I like the design a lot, but like other Framework computers, it's just far too expensive for what it is. The processor inside it is approaching 4 years old and wasn't a good processor at…
This seems as much like "sleep" as when a laptop "sleeps".
I thought the same. If it had a Kia badge on it, it wouldn't shock me, and I think Kia make some quite nice cars now. I don't like the interior. I think this style can work for some things, it reminds me of a NuPhy…
Indeed it is subjective, I think the "Krups" was beautiful.
We had this at a job I had many years ago. We had a Sun Niagara system with some Sun Rays attached, and I had a Sun Ray laptop at home, on the other side of the world. Office in London, home in Melbourne. It wasn't even…
If I was going to write something for free, it would some weird itch-scratching thing for Plan 9 or something, it wouldn't be something most people would ever want. Realistically though, I'm not going to build software…
That's what I mean, no actual processor model.
They're 18650 cells, a bit bigger than AA.
GPUs existed in the 1960s, but apparently Sony invented the actual term "GPU" in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#1990s
Glad to see I'm not the only person that noticed the lack of SGI stuff.
Agree, and this is my point. Apple absolutely has a very clear message on how developers should make software, but as you say, developers often do not care. I am a desktop app "believer" I like desktop apps, I like…
When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop. That's fine, except no platform answers this. Obviously Linux doesn't, but the Mac doesn't either.…
Safari is a monopoly on iOS and iPadOS, that's a problem if you want to make a bleeding-edge PWA app, in that it's probably not going to work very well on iPad and iPhone and there is no web alternative on those…
I haven't used Solaris since the last time I used it for work over 10 years ago. Agree ZFS and Zones are both exceptional, I would still use Solaris now where it made sense.
I don't think anybody suggests Oracle couldn't make faster SPARC processors, it's just that development of SPARC ended almost 10 years ago. At the time SPARC was abandoned, it was very competitive.
I was really surprised by the s390x performance, but I also don't really understand why there are build time listed by architecture, not the actual processors.
I tried ReactOS a little while ago, in some ways it's closer than it feels to being acceptable as a daily driver, in others it's quite far away. I like the idea of there being more alternatives Operating Systems that…
It's free, it has support for loads of languages, and it's kind of fashionable. Personally I'm kind of lukewarm on VS Code, it's fine, but CLion, Visual Studio Proper, and RustRover are better for me. I see why people…
Small company, < 50 people, industrial automation. Machine not locked down at all, I could install OS/2 and nobody would care.
That's why it's a research OS, a lot of people (or at least some) think that the current range of mainstream OS are not very well designed, and we can do better. I'm not saying Plan 9 is the alternative, but it is kind…
Agree, this is absurd, I have plenty of websites I use that are productive or mindful or otherwise tick the boxes this company wants ticked, but the idea that I can't view them on my phone just immediately rules it out.…