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[08:17] schestowitzThe recipes that Carla Shroder shares here only begin to scratch the surface of whats to be found in the Second Edition of her classic guide to Linux. If it was up to us, however, we would have called it The Joy of Linux, after our favorite all-purpose cookbook.
[08:17] schestowitzGuix is an advanced operating system. While you may be able to get some of these features through other tools, like Docker, filesystem snapshots, etc., they are not part of the core OS design and functionality.
[08:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | I Finished Witcher 3 Thanks to DXVK - Boiling Steam [08:17] schestowitzOne immediate feature youll notice about Guix is that you dont need root permissions to install or remove packages, only for system configuration. In other words, only for say updating the kernel, changing system services, adding users, or changing the boot configuration. These days I so rarely use sudo (or reboot) that I almost forgot my password!
[08:17] schestowitzOther stand out features are easy development environments or isolated containers (like Docker, or even exporting a full Docker image), mixed versions of programs (different profiles or users can use different versions of the same program), transactional upgrades (either succeeds or does nothing), partial upgrades (just upgrade a program individually), roll backs to previous profiles for packages, easy package transformations, [08:17] schestowitz package importers to make adding new packages easy, tools to quickly update a package definition, and more.
[08:19] schestowitzMastodon vs Twitter. The public loves to put a VS between entities, as if things are always in opposition to each others. At Boiling Steam, we use both, or rather, I use both since I am responsible for the communications on such networks. I am not going to go in a lengthy rant about why Twitter sucks in multiple ways, but if you were to make a short list:
[08:19] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | Mastodon VS Twitter - Boiling Steam [08:19] schestowitzTwitter is well known to censor certain opinions.
[08:19] schestowitzTwitter does not apply clear policies across the board. What seems OK for someone else may not be OK for you.
[08:20] schestowitzTwitter uses tricks like shadowbanning, and directly influences what things trend over others.
[08:20] schestowitzWhere there is a concentration of power, these things are bound to happen. But today, I am more interested in the actual user experience, especially when it comes to a publication like us.
[08:36] schestowitzLast year they updated the functional language retults, and all the setups, benchmarks, and collected data can be found here. Check out the paper for more details. Have your choice of programming language ever been influenced by energy consumption?
[08:58] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fossforce.com | A Developer's Eye View of Bodhi 3.0.0 - FOSS Force [08:58] schestowitzFOSS Force first learned of the plans from a post by Mike Saunders, a marketing assistant for the The Document Foundation, the organization behind the open source office suite LibreOffice.
[08:58] schestowitzBy the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux, he said.
[08:58] schestowitzSaunders said that Lothar Becker, chairperson of TDFs board, and fellow board member Thorsten Behrens, have already met with state officials involved with the transition.
[09:01] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | CIO News | Enterprise IT, Enterprise Technology, Tech Industry News - ET CIO [09:01] schestowitzDecentralised networks - where internet or communication services are localised rather than monopolised by government or corporate giants - give users more control over their data and privacy, researchers say.
[09:01] schestowitzSuch networks could play a significant role in Africa where internet access is scant and censorship and internet shutdowns pose an increasing risk of "digital authoritarianism", they say.
[09:03] schestowitzThis is the third large China-based video platform to join OIN this year. In June, Kuaishou, a short-video platform with a billion monthly users, signed on, followed in August by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, also with about a billion monthly active users.