Gregory's Server
On this day in 1971 the first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual was published, with the first man pages.
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I'm building a #Debian based home router setup. Three laptops: one for editing and deploying Ansible, one to act as the router, and one to act as the LAN behind the router. Good thing I've kept a few old laptops. @liw I am working for quite some time now on Ansible code for a Debian based Router. Is your code somewhere available? Maybe we can share roles?  Since the sustainability of open source is a hot topic due to the xz debacle, and so many people keep suggesting asking for donations, I feel I need to post this. I'm not involved with xz, but like it's maintainer, I live in Finland. In Finland, appealing to the public for donations requires prior permission from the police. Getting the permission is not automatic. Selling stuff far beyond a reasonable valuation counts as asking for donations. Even just saying that you accept donations can get you sued. It doesn't matter if you do it as a private person, as a company, or as a non-profit. 1/ It’s a big day for the Radicle community :space_invader: We're excited to announce the rollout of our first release candidate for Radicle 1.0 — our most significant update to date :tada: Start collaborating today Here’s an overview of what’s new 🧵 2/ This release marks the stabilization of Heartwood, the peer-to-peer protocol that powers Radicle with a sovereign data network for code collaboration and publishing, built on top of Git. Heartwood addresses the usability and performance concerns faced during previous protocol iterations while doubling down on Radicle's secure and resilient primitives. Learn more about Heartwood:  @liw The true crazy is that all of us can just do that at home now. Heck, a lot of folks reading this could do it on our phones. (Compilation would probably melt them though.) 
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@liw "that consists only of free and open source software" -- a goal that Debian got rid of. 😠  @liw great read! even for someone who is familiar with the most of the ideas behind the project. Happy birthday, #Debian On this day in 1993, that's 30 years ago, Ian Murdock announced the imminent release of a new Linux distribution. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt
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 @liw Ah, SLS, my first distro. Recently returned to daily personal Linux with Debian on a new ThinkPad, and although the return was bumpy, it was familiar and problems were easily fixed. Thank you for the reminder of Debian's anniversary!  > What will make this release better than SLS? > … On this day, in 1991, Linus Torvalds first announced Linux to the world, in the comp.os.minix Usenet group. I had written a tiny bit of code in that code: the string formatting parts of the kernel logging function printk. Today, that code (with changes and improvements by other people) runs on billions of devices, on all continents, on all oceans, in orbit, and on Mars. Possibly other places.   @liw Wikipedia has you down as taking Linus to see a talk by RMS in '91; I'm trying to think when RMSs talk in Manchester was, probably a bit after that; Owen Leblanc (who introduced me to Linux in about ~92) had organised it; I remember it as a strange mix of computer and legal people there.  |
@liw "This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
@liw less than 24 hours later, "But that's not The Unix Way ...!" was uttered for the first time.