Rough notes for an aborted project.
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Programming, Ruby >
A simple cross-platform installation thingy.
It was an ordeal to get a Ruby script to work on someone else’s computer, so I had the notion to make something myself.
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Abandoned – no real effort was actually made, and it turned out there was no use for it at work after all.
The local X configuration file for the user.
I don’t use this any more.
coming later
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
Linux is an umbrella concept/base from which free operating systems are produced.
These initially intrigued me because of fundamental philosophies of freedom. Free as in freedom (Libre) and free as in beer (Gratis). Now it’s also about ease of use.
Note that you can remaster a distribution into your own customized one, with its own software, etc.
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aka distro(s)
See also:
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Operating Systems > Windows > Windows 3.1 >
For reasons which ought to be obvious, this Windows 3.11 update project is dead.
- (date not recorded) After this, I used Windows 9x
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(date not recorded) Before this, I used Windows 3.1 and DOS
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Linux distributions >
See also Linux distributions based on Slackware
(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/
The oldest extant distribution, Slackware focuses on a sort of straightforwardness. It’s not “light” or “easy”, it is what it is. It’s not cripplingly-difficult like Gentoo or Arch Linux. Using it is a little taxing on the mind, but doesn’t actually require a whole lot of deep understanding. It’s install was straightforward.
Using it, I feel “closer” to my computer.
| Distribution | Last tested | LiveUSB | Package Management | Rolling Release | systemd? | Ease |
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| Slackware | 2016-03-25 – 14.1 | text installer | partial + third-party | security | No (1, 2, 3) | “other” |
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbkeys/
http://bbkeys.sourceforge.net/
A keygrabber which can do various things based on key combinations. You don’t need to bother with Blackbox as your window manager if you don’t want.
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.bbkeysrc has some configuration notes.
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During my glancing at Buddhism, I write/rewrote this introduction as a way to understand and explain it better.
This was inspired by Mike Butler and buddhanet.net‘s Introduction to Buddhism but was largely transformed by my own hand. In particular, some phrases herein were kept intact, as they were both strong and clear. Of note, much of the last two thirds of the eightfold path is a direct copy of the original. I liked it that much.
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See the cache and contemporization topics for philosophies behind why I sometimes begin with an existing work and build from there.
