●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 20, 2024 ●● ● Aug 20 [01:06] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [01:46] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@9dbcu4348vvde.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 20 [02:38] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:55] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@fhn7a8axawcea.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 20 [08:03] schestowitz[TR2]
[08:03] schestowitz[TR2][08:03] schestowitz[TR2]General Motors (GM) is cutting more than 1,000 salaried positions worldwide in its software and services division, with the majority based in the US.
[08:03] schestowitz[TR2]The layoffs, as initially reported by CNBC, include about 600 positions at GM's Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
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[08:57] schestowitz[TR2][08:57] schestowitz[TR2]Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is a solid and reliable release. However, it includes certain features that might not appeal to the typical desktop user. One example is the way Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, delivers some essential applications like the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client.
[08:57] schestowitz[TR2]These are distributed as Snaps, a type of distro-agnostic software packaging similar to Flatpak that works across different Linux distributions. However, while Flatpak has become widely accepted as a standard within the Linux community, Snap is still mostly used within the Ubuntu ecosystem alone.
[08:57] schestowitz[TR2]The reasons for this are different; this is not the place to comment on them. We are here to show you how to install Thunderbird as a regular DEB package on your Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system. But before that, lets see what you gain from this.
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[15:00] schestowitz[TR2][15:00] schestowitz[TR2]Since DECWindows / CDE now works on OpenVMS x86 (from 9.2-3 onwards) there is much fun stuff to do. Back in 2021 I wrote an article on the CDE desktop on Alpha / AXPbox and also an article on how to run CDE on modern linux, since it's still developed. Both articles included a game, GENERIC-TETRIS from 1992, written by Qiang Alex Zhao. After getting the (remote) desktop working I wanted to [15:00] schestowitz[TR2] compile and run Tetris to continue this lineage, from VAX, to Alpha, to Linux/CDE, to x86 VMS. I haven't got an Itanium to run it on, but if anyone has one left willing to send this way, feel free to contact me. This article includes the precompiled tetris binary for OpenVMS x86 and instructions to compile the source. The code required some minor modifications which I'll also cover, but that's not surprising for code that hasn't ch [15:00] schestowitz[TR2] anged much since 1992 to be compiled in 2024. This article also shows you how to install curl on OpenVMS.
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