alcinnz
@alcinnz@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@mikebabcock Hey I wasn't trying to suggest that computers were better back then, I was suggesting that it was harder for them to be good!

Though from my reading there's a bit of a distinction to be had with Amiga here: The IBM PCs Microsoft was targeting barely had a graphics chip, Apple omitted them entirely initially.
Amiga had more acceleration.
Michael T Babcock
@mikebabcock@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@alcinnz sorry my response was probably too terse. I just meant that we have rose coloured glasses until we actually boot old hardware and go "oh yeah, the gui sucked on these."
(As someone who ran various non-Windows GUIs before succumbing to Windows 3.1 then 95, 98 and finally X11 on Linux)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSX-32
#OperatingSystem #OS #Linux #Windows#GUI#Computing#oldPerson
knoppix
@knoppix95@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🚀 Tails 7.0~rc1 is out for testing
Official release planned for Oct 16 🗓️

Built on Debian 13 & GNOME 48 🧩
Brings updated apps (GIMP 3.0.4, Audacity 3.7.3, Electrum 4.5.8 & more) 🔧
Improved hardware support 🌐
New RAM requirement: 3 GB 💾
Slower boot (fix coming) ⏳
Privacy-focused OS, now open for community feedback 🛡️

@torproject

https://blog.torproject.org/tails-7_0-rc1-testing/

#Linux#FOSS#Privacy#Security#CyberSecurity#OpenSource#Tails#TailsOS#Tor#TorProject#Debian#Gnome#TechNews#OS#OperatingSystem
knoppix
@knoppix95@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🚀 Tails 7.0~rc1 is out for testing
Official release planned for Oct 16 🗓️

Built on Debian 13 & GNOME 48 🧩
Brings updated apps (GIMP 3.0.4, Audacity 3.7.3, Electrum 4.5.8 & more) 🔧
Improved hardware support 🌐
New RAM requirement: 3 GB 💾
Slower boot (fix coming) ⏳
Privacy-focused OS, now open for community feedback 🛡️

@torproject

https://blog.torproject.org/tails-7_0-rc1-testing/

#Linux#FOSS#Privacy#Security#CyberSecurity#OpenSource#Tails#TailsOS#Tor#TorProject#Debian#Gnome#TechNews#OS#OperatingSystem
AlternativeTo
@alternativeto@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Microsoft will discontinue Windows 11 SE, its education-focused OS, by October 2026. Support ends then, urging users to switch to another Windows 11 version. Major manufacturers will stop shipping devices with it https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/microsoft-announces-end-of-windows-11-se-for-schools-less-than-four-years-after-launch/
JBrickelt963 (φ)
@JBrickelt963@framapiaf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@alternativeto Ça commence déjà à expédier #Windows11 aux oubliettes pour moi c'est le dernier #SystemeDexploitation#OperatingSystem que j'utilise de chez eux #Windows#Microsoft

Pour le prochain ordinateur ça sera #Linux ou rien.

alcinnz
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Jan :rust: :ferris:
@janriemer@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Heck yeah, this thing will blow up! awesome

Introducing Operese (a Windows-to-Linux migration tool made by a nerd):

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PMoXClh8emw
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoXClh8emw)

The demo is very impressive! 👀

It apparently migrates your #Windows10 installation to #Linux #Kubuntu (❤️) with all your files ready to use. 🚀

Written in #Rust, but not yet #OpenSource (according to author will be Open Source in the near future).

#OS#OperatingSystem #RustLang#Operese#EndOf10 #KDE
Jan :rust: :ferris:
@janriemer@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Heck yeah, this thing will blow up! awesome

Introducing Operese (a Windows-to-Linux migration tool made by a nerd):

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PMoXClh8emw
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoXClh8emw)

The demo is very impressive! 👀

It apparently migrates your #Windows10 installation to #Linux #Kubuntu (❤️) with all your files ready to use. 🚀

Written in #Rust, but not yet #OpenSource (according to author will be Open Source in the near future).

#OS#OperatingSystem #RustLang#Operese#EndOf10 #KDE
Gabriele Svelto
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

As you probably heard animated PNG images (APNG) have been standardized! So here's a story on how I used an APNG file to cut a phone's power consumption by 10 times in a common scenario during the weeks leading up to the launch of Firefox OS 1.0. We'll talk about webpage layout, rendering, mobile hardware intricacies, driver bugs and of course APNG files. 🧵 1/16

https://social.linux.pizza/@knurd42/114743763415059021

#FirefoxOS#PNG
Kevin Karhan :verified:
@kkarhan@infosec.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@gabrielesvelto I still remember #FirefoxOS and I'm still mad at @Mozilla / @mozilla_support / #Mozilla for self-sabotaging because neither me nor @fuchsiii nor anyone else I knew who did #WebDev / #AppDev / #MobileDev could even buy a device.
  • The only device that I was aware of launched in the #EU was a #SimLock'd & #NetLock'd #prepaid phone in #Spain which wouldn't sell it to us since they demanded #KYC with a spanish residency address.

I mean it's cool that one could just use #Firefox as #Emulator but no #mobile#OperatingSystem will have any chance of market attraction if one cannot buy the bloody thing!

  • Same like #OpenMoko: I'd love to get a #Neo1973 but none of the phone and electronic stores had it (and back then I was under 16 so I couldn't just make an account at an online shop)…