[dev] xv6

2011-11-09 Thread Truls Becken
Hi, Professors at MIT have rewritten Unix V6 in 7000 lines of ANSI C for use in operating system class. I thought it might interest some people on this list. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html -Truls

Re: [dev] xv6

2011-11-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
This is five years old, and has been discussed on this list at least once in the past year. Thanks for the reddit feed. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] xv6

2011-11-09 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-11-09 14:52] Kurt H Maier > > This is five years old, and has been discussed on this list at least > once in the past year. How about having all mail to the list going through a program to check if there are large similarities to old messages in the list archive. If so, the message would b

Re: [dev] xv6

2011-11-09 Thread Rob
On 9 November 2011 19:49, Truls Becken wrote: > Professors at MIT have rewritten Unix V6 in 7000 lines of ANSI C for use in > operating system class. I thought it might interest some people on this list. > > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html Thanks, I look forward to reading this. Ro

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread
On Monday, 7 November 2011 2:07:44 pm Kurt H Maier wrote: > The very use of the phrase "Desktop Environment" betrays your > low-lying commitment to the capitalist patriarchal conspiracy to > restrict social mobility of non-institutional entity-computer > interfaces. Your attempt to sidetrack philo

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Seth Hover
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:08 PM, 2>&1 wrote: > > Ugh. Please read Elements of Style by Strunk & White, especially the > section > on lovers of big words. > > hah. way to bite.

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Justin Pogue
Hey did you hear the one about the giant? Nevermind, its over your head. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:08 PM, 2>&1 wrote: > On Monday, 7 November 2011 2:07:44 pm Kurt H Maier wrote: >> The very use of the phrase "Desktop Environment" betrays your >> low-lying commitment to the capitalist patriarchal

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 9 listopada 2011 23:08 "2>&1" napisaƂ(a): > Ugh. Please read Elements of Style by Strunk & White, especially the section > on lovers of big words. > -- > Regards, > 2>&1 The Joke Could Be On You. - brought by, Big Words Incorporated.

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Seth Hover
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Greetings comrades, > [marketing-type distractions] > i don't know about you but running dwm + dmenu is about as close to a suckless DE as it gets (st and surf if you need the whole gamut, and I use st).

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Jacob Todd
It's funny because they don't realize they've been trolled.

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Sime Ramov
* Seth Hover [2011-11-09 15:37-0800]: > i don't know about you but running dwm + dmenu is about as close to a > suckless DE as it gets (st and surf if you need the whole gamut, and I > use st). As is OpenBSD, nvi, herbstluftwm, xxxterm and urxvtd. See the issue now? Everybody has its own preferre

Re: [dev] Suckless Desktop Environment

2011-11-09 Thread Seth Hover
totally; just speaking in terms of suckless projects hosted on suckless.org. there basically IS a suckless DE. you just have to assemble it (much like the fact that most suckless tools are meant to be compiled by the user). apologies if this topquotes, I'm on a cell phone. On Nov 9, 2011 4:53 PM,

Re: [dev] [dwm] mapping wm state, and other stories

2011-11-09 Thread Matthew Bauer
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > > I sometimes wonder whether it would be simpler to just make > _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN switch dwm into monocle mode. Forcing one > window to be at the front very often leads me to accidentally focus > and interact with window hidden behi