Comment by 🗡️ The_Jackal
Re: "Linux Drags In Unnecessary Crap"
@Vindemiatrix Maybe some of the BSDs like OpenBSD or FreeBSD? Finding the right hardware can be finnicky from what I've seen
Jan 07 · 4 months ago
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🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 07 at 19:10:
@meidam: I meant that it is the flagship product of Balena, supporting that 'business' of repackaging functionality built into every linux box. Apparently the company, originally Resin.io, was in the business of 'securing capital' to develop bullshit products to 'simplify the way developers build, deploy, and manage software for IOT devices'.
— https://venturebeat.com/technology/balena-raises-14-4-million-to-simplify-iot-device-management
etc...
Total funding: 101M in 7 rounds.
2020 revenue: $36,300 (thirty six thousand three hundred dollars)
2020 valuation: 1/2 billion.
75 employees?
Fake business?
👻 darkghost · Jan 07 at 19:35:
@Vindemiatrix You can run RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi. Its the OS the old Acorn Archimedes ran from the 90s. While it's fun to mess around with, it isn't cut out for modern workflows. But it is blisteringly fast because it's designed for 25 year old hardware.
Gentoo does this correctly -- neofetch has no dependencies, but if you install it you will be told that you can get optional features by installing additional packages (e.g. imagemagick for thumbnail creation, apparently).
🚂 methodius · Feb 03 at 19:18:
@Vindemiatrix I have some hopes for Haiku as a less bloated desktop OS. To me it has "that feel" of Linux 20 years ago, although unfortunately it only supports x86/x64 right now, so no Raspberry Pi yet (although it seems possible to build it for arm64).
— https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/compiling-arm64/
Your comment made me wonder… it could be an interesting experiment to run Haiku on a cheap x64 mini PC and try to use it at least as a semi-daily driver.
👻 darkghost · Feb 03 at 19:40:
@methodius I have done this. Well, I used an 18 year old laptop, but still. It works. And you can do it... with caveats. YMMV. You should know it is very buggy and the code is very unoptimized, meaning it is slow. Slower than lightweight Linux (eg MX) on similar hardware. RAM usage is less though. The main web browser is a trademark free Firefox running on some kind of Wayland to Haiku GUI layer and this has oddities with screen redraw. There is also a native browser called Webpositive that won't work on a lot of sites but is way faster. Lagrange is available but has an SDL bug that crashes it on resize. Maximize works though. Libreoffice is missing a dependency, install liberation fonts to fix.
🚂 methodius · Feb 03 at 19:50:
That's good to know, thanks! On a more recent machine it should run better, given that even cheap ones have way better performance than the best 18-year-old ones. Too bad that Lagrange is buggy: I was hoping to maybe use such a machine for Gemini and other "small net" stuff. Are you still using it?
👻 darkghost · Feb 03 at 21:45:
Lagrange works just fine. Just don't resize the window unless you're going to maximize it. There's kristall as well but it straight up doesn't work for me, emulated or on bare metal
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Linux Drags In Unnecessary Crap