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@alcinnz@floss.social As one data point, my 2012 Macbook may be unacceptably slow with macOS... but #AlpineLinux is super fast there, except for the boot and resume from disk time of course. I guess #Debian would run fine there too, I just wanted something #musl imic for a change.
As a volunteer repairer... I encourage everyone to make the best use of their old devices! Don't replace them until you actually need to!
It takes a lot of effort to manufacture electronics, so please keep & use them for at least 7 years.
That's when the energy incurred from using your device balances out that from manufacturing it.
@alcinnz@floss.social As one data point, my 2012 Macbook may be unacceptably slow with macOS... but #AlpineLinux is super fast there, except for the boot and resume from disk time of course. I guess #Debian would run fine there too, I just wanted something #musl imic for a change.
🎉 systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc - Phoronix
｢ Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option. ｣
🎉 systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc - Phoronix
｢ Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option. ｣
Systemd adds musl compatibility for the first time, reducing the glibc-only barrier and widening its reach across lighter Linux systems.
https://linuxiac.com/systemd-introduces-experimental-musl-support/
Systemd adds musl compatibility for the first time, reducing the glibc-only barrier and widening its reach across lighter Linux systems.
https://linuxiac.com/systemd-introduces-experimental-musl-support/
Just designed and tested an algorithm to build a reverse-iterator on top of an iterator that can only run in forwards direction (part of the #musl collation project) and it seems to be good!
63 underlying forward-iterate steps to perform 21 reverse-iterate steps in simple test case.
Just designed and tested an algorithm to build a reverse-iterator on top of an iterator that can only run in forwards direction (part of the #musl collation project) and it seems to be good!
63 underlying forward-iterate steps to perform 21 reverse-iterate steps in simple test case.
Basically, #musl's locale support has been pretty abysmal for a long time.
This is in contrast to multilingualization, which has always been first-class. M17N basically means ability to represent data in your own and other languages concurrently, and is about character set and avoiding artificial limitations. Locale/localization, OTOH, means the ability of the software to adjust its behavior and presentation to the norms of a particular cultural context, and that's what we've failed at.
About 10 years ago, I wrote the initial locale implementation, but it never received testing/feedback, and had core data representation bugs that basically made it not usable.
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This time around, in addition to funding, we have folks from @postmarketOS on the project to give feedback on integration and actually meeting the needs for localized UI in end-user-facing applications.
A decade ago, #musl was pretty much only used in embedded and container spaces, and occasionally desktops of power users mostly sticking to a non-localized/English-only interface.
A lot has changed since then.
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The big exciting news though is that some work I've been wanting to do on #musl for a long time now has sponsorship, thanks to a grant from NLnet and NGI Zero Core.
This was previously announced on the musl mailing list, but I'd like to go into some more detail here.
4/N
Basically, #musl's locale support has been pretty abysmal for a long time.
This is in contrast to multilingualization, which has always been first-class. M17N basically means ability to represent data in your own and other languages concurrently, and is about character set and avoiding artificial limitations. Locale/localization, OTOH, means the ability of the software to adjust its behavior and presentation to the norms of a particular cultural context, and that's what we've failed at.
About 10 years ago, I wrote the initial locale implementation, but it never received testing/feedback, and had core data representation bugs that basically made it not usable.
5/N
First, yes it's been a long time since a release. I was out of my country under rather extraordinary circumstances for 3 months basically from the time of the electoral part of the fascist coup to when the regime was just about to start implementing things, and it's taken me a while to get back to any kind of routine and catch up on the backlog of things I'd forgotten need attention. But that's all going well, and I'm aiming for a release somewhere in the next 10-25 days.
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The big exciting news though is that some work I've been wanting to do on #musl for a long time now has sponsorship, thanks to a grant from NLnet and NGI Zero Core.
This was previously announced on the musl mailing list, but I'd like to go into some more detail here.
4/N
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