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mlnews

FreeNAS 11.1 releases. Whatever happen to the FreeNAS 10 family? Oh yeah, it was so bad that they skipped the numbers completely.

mlnews

Haiko OS getting closer.

Obsolesce

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Haiko OS getting closer.

Looks so mid-90s from the screenshots I see on google images.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Haiko OS getting closer.

Looks so mid-90s from the screenshots I see on google images.

It's kind of supposed to look that way

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Haiko OS getting closer.

Looks so mid-90s from the screenshots I see on google images.

It's kind of supposed to look that way

I think I'll stick with Linux.

mlnews

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-64-Beta-Released

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/patent-pictures-show-microsoft-is-still-trying-to-build-a-dual-screen-device/

black3dynamite

Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” is out now.

Cinnamon
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3457

Mate
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3458

KDE
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3481

XFCE
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3480

mlnews

Wow, whoops...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/microsoft-is-forcing-users-to-install-a-critically-flawed-password-manager/

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/alphabet-wants-to-deliver-internet-access-via-laser-beams/

mlnews

Fedora Had Another Innovating Year

Dashrender

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wow, whoops...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/microsoft-is-forcing-users-to-install-a-critically-flawed-password-manager/

Has it been shown to be an issue if you aren't using it?

Obsolesce

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Fedora Had Another Innovating Year

Apparently wayland is for GUI and xorg is command-line...

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/995611-fedora-linux-had-another-innovative-year?p=995637#post995637

stacksofplates

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Fedora Had Another Innovating Year

Apparently wayland is for GUI and xorg is command-line...

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/995611-fedora-linux-had-another-innovative-year?p=995637#post995637

I can understand why they feel that way. Wayland has no network transparency so it’s going to be a full Remote Desktop session of some type (VNC, SPICE, etc.).

I think they possibly just worded it strange.

coliver

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/new-york-city-moves-to-create-accountability-for-algorithms/#p3

This is interesting. I really like the part where they want all algorithms to be open source.

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/new-york-city-moves-to-create-accountability-for-algorithms/#p3

This is interesting. I really like the part where they want all algorithms to be open source.

nice

CloudKnight

Deepin 15.5 New Features.

Youtube Video

dbeato

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Deepin 15.5 New Features.

Youtube Video

Running it on my laptop right now.

scottalanmiller

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Deepin 15.5 New Features.

Youtube Video

I've been on it for a month now

scottalanmiller

15.5 that is. I've been on Deepin even longer. Like most of a year.