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I will not try OpenSuSE 11.3 for the next few weeks.

vidarlo — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:48:56 +0000

This will be the first release in quite a few years that I won’t try at the day of release. I’ve been using OpenSuSE since Pre-Novell (9.0 I believe), and have usually upgraded as soon as possible.

But why not this time?

Because the last three times I tried to upgrade, it was a mess for two days. The sturdy and solid SuSE is gone, and I’m left with a flaky OpenSuSE, which usually needs a few weeks to settle the most annoying bugs.

Preciously, SuSE was the one distro that you could be sure was working. But not anymore. They’ve simply got to many fuckups on the release day for me to thrust ‘em.

I will upgrade. But not in a few weeks.

Plan9/Linux – a new combo…

vidarlo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:42:16 +0000

Plan9 is an OS and a set of userspace tools. They had some rather nice design ideas, like making everything a file, and let users interact with that.

The main problem is that Plan9 don’t really run on any usefull hardware – it’s kinda limited in it HW support. To overcome that, Glendix is making a Plan9/Linux – a Linux kernel with Plan9 userspace tools…

We’ve seen GNU/Solaris, GNU/HP-UX, GNU/BSD and, most commonly, GNU/Linux. However, we seldomly see */Linux. It almost goes without saying that Linux uses GNU user-space tools. One outcome of Plan9/Linux might be that RMS finally gets GNU/Linux more prominent… However, I’m not holding my breath for that