Re:how does it compare to NetBSD as a teaching too
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Minix 3.2.1 Released
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I'm currently in a university course where Minix 3.2.1 is being used to teach OS principles. It's certainly small, and therefore semi-easy to wrap your head around. But I would not agree that its source code is "clean". They have a lot of really old code and suffer from coding guidelines that have changed greatly over time. I've never seen someone mix tabs and spaces so much in a piece of code. And can anyone say "no namespacing"?
That said, I don't have much familiarity of the internals of other kernels, but I'm not too impressed by Minix.
It's not all streaming. They'll mail you a DVD if you want to watch the content. The only thing they stream are 30 second clips (which falls under fair-use), so that you can make sure you have the right video.
They do get to offload a lot of the work to the graphics chip, which undoubtedly helps, but they're also expected to perform compositing now, and typically to include all sorts of extra graphical effects. On top of that, as h111 mentioned, we have all these interpreted languages and VMs (such as Dalvik), and all the work done by modern web browsers to handle fancy interactive websites.
It's the price we (or rather, perhaps, the typical consumers) pay for prettier graphics and easier software development.
Notably, Bootstrap uses LessCSS heavily, which is similar to SCSS. I'd suggest the OP look into both SCSS and LessCSS if he's/she's looking for a CSS preprocessor.
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I'm currently in a university course where Minix 3.2.1 is being used to teach OS principles. It's certainly small, and therefore semi-easy to wrap your head around. But I would not agree that its source code is "clean". They have a lot of really old code and suffer from coding guidelines that have changed greatly over time. I've never seen someone mix tabs and spaces so much in a piece of code. And can anyone say "no namespacing"? That said, I don't have much familiarity of the internals of other kernels, but I'm not too impressed by Minix.
It's not all streaming. They'll mail you a DVD if you want to watch the content. The only thing they stream are 30 second clips (which falls under fair-use), so that you can make sure you have the right video.
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They do get to offload a lot of the work to the graphics chip, which undoubtedly helps, but they're also expected to perform compositing now, and typically to include all sorts of extra graphical effects. On top of that, as h111 mentioned, we have all these interpreted languages and VMs (such as Dalvik), and all the work done by modern web browsers to handle fancy interactive websites.
It's the price we (or rather, perhaps, the typical consumers) pay for prettier graphics and easier software development.
It's more-or-less the same approach, the notable thing is that this time it's Java.
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Notably, Bootstrap uses LessCSS heavily, which is similar to SCSS. I'd suggest the OP look into both SCSS and LessCSS if he's/she's looking for a CSS preprocessor.
... rubbing salt in Adobe's wound.
[looks at their website]
"Provide[s] exceptional service to [their] valued customers"!
What does that mean? I hate it when websites do stuff like that.
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