It uses a drop-in replacement look-alike, Nimbus Sans, which was donated to the GhostScript project by the foundry URW++. The foundry donated a full drop-in replacement font package covering the basic 35 PostScript standard fonts.
I own a Moto G4 play and it still is a solid device. Good to see the line refreshed; and if it is like previous generations, the Android setup would be mostly bloat-free. I don't care about the notches, though. They look just like an useless gimmick.
Slackware ships with a simple, effective BSD-style init populated by simple and readable shell scripts. Its BDFL, Patrick Volkerding, made the decision to purposely avoid systemd like the plague and I think he is right.
Install Slackware, and many sysadmin's worries will go away.
My country (Paraguay) is 34th with visa-free access to 143 destinations. Glad to see it placed so high given the fact that it is a small and relatively unimportant country.
Back in 2015 I purchased a Voyage and is still a trusted companion that gave me hours and hours of reading. I have it always close to me and I try to sneak in a read whenever I can.
If this news is indeed true, the sad part is the PagePress controls, which I love and are very useful to me; the Voyage is the only model to offer them. With its haptic feedback, it felt natural and speedy to me. I was certain it was a win, UX-wise, but looks like I was wrong.
Besides that, it was obvious that the Voyage would be a dud. The price was too high, Amazon did almost no rebates of the price, so the result was clear: it didn't sell.
It also shared almost all the shortcomings of other models in the Kindle lineup: poor battery life (with the possible exception of the Oasis), awful font choices (why invest $$ in an e-reader when you are going to read your books with an ugly, utilitarian font such as Bookerly with no better default options and no chance of supplying your own?), and lack of a case (again, save the Oasis).
I hope they soon lauch something with PagePress and with other drawbacks of the Kindle e-ink lineup removed.
I use this icon set so this was a nasty surprise, compounded with the lack of any mention in the release materials. Not good, LO folks. Thankfully the functionality is just an extension away.
How many floppy disks does it take to install today?
Well, since a ISO image of Slackware-current amounts to 2.8 GB, i'd say that a full install of Slackware-current would take about 2000 1.44 MB 3.5" floppies.
This, and also because versions are realeased "when it's ready". There's no rush to release a great system. If you want cutting edge, you can run the development version (that, IMHO, it's more stable than most distros' stable releases) and you will get the latest and greatest in almost everything.
Slackware introduced Pulseaudio recently, and if I'm going to run Linux at all, it'll be Poettering-free. So far they've rejected systemd at least, but I don't think they can hold out much longer on that front, since all the major desktop environments have been co-opted by now.
Running Slackware without pulseaudio is supported. Slackware provides a basic series of packages which are pulseaudio-free and the instructions to setup a pulseaudio-free system are fairly easy.
Maybe. But slackpkg is standard from several versions ago and it works beautifully. Really, right now package management works very well and the biggest difference with other distributions is the lack of dependency resolution. This is by design; the whole thing is predicated on the basis that you do a full install.
It's great to see a systemd-free distro making progress. Hope they keep releasing.
And remember, Slackware is the oldest GNU/Linux distro in active maintenance, and is also free of systemd. Even the development version (Slackware-current) has no systemd.
I use Claws Mail. It's light on resources, fast, stable, and can deal with gigabyte-sized mailboxes without a hiccup. Moreover, it uses the MH mailbox format, where each email message is a single plaintext file so it's very flexible and if necessary it allows for straightforward manipulation directly from the shell. There's even a nice book available on it.
I agree with Stallman's position which maintains that GNU/Linux is the correct usage; but there's an additional point.
Right now I think using "GNU/Linux" is useful as a shorthand to differentiate our regular "Linux distros" from Android (which uses a Linux kernel) and similar projects (such as Chrome OS). All of them are "Linux". So, GNU/Linux conveys the idea that is Linux at the kernel as well as a standard GNU userland as its base.
I do. Streets in my city (Asunción) are awful. Lots of potholes and plenty of ill-designed and ill-placed speed bumps. When you have low quality streets, a high ride is a godsend.
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It uses a drop-in replacement look-alike, Nimbus Sans, which was donated to the GhostScript project by the foundry URW++. The foundry donated a full drop-in replacement font package covering the basic 35 PostScript standard fonts.
More info:
http://www.tug.org/fonts/deuts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I own a Moto G4 play and it still is a solid device. Good to see the line refreshed; and if it is like previous generations, the Android setup would be mostly bloat-free. I don't care about the notches, though. They look just like an useless gimmick.
As someone said, I think there's quite a baby with the bathwater you propose to throw.
Slackware ships with a simple, effective BSD-style init populated by simple and readable shell scripts. Its BDFL, Patrick Volkerding, made the decision to purposely avoid systemd like the plague and I think he is right.
Install Slackware, and many sysadmin's worries will go away.
Slackware does not use systemd and therefore is not affected by this vulnerability.
At least in this case, the KISS philosophy paid well.
My country (Paraguay) is 34th with visa-free access to 143 destinations. Glad to see it placed so high given the fact that it is a small and relatively unimportant country.
Nothing that a good cover could not fix :)
I understand and agree with what you said. I think that most people see the Oasis' real buttons and think like you: "Even better".
But I beg to differ with one point: PagePress is much better IMHO. "Real buttons" are great, but I bet PagePress last much longer than real buttons.
Back in 2015 I purchased a Voyage and is still a trusted companion that gave me hours and hours of reading. I have it always close to me and I try to sneak in a read whenever I can.
If this news is indeed true, the sad part is the PagePress controls, which I love and are very useful to me; the Voyage is the only model to offer them. With its haptic feedback, it felt natural and speedy to me. I was certain it was a win, UX-wise, but looks like I was wrong.
Besides that, it was obvious that the Voyage would be a dud. The price was too high, Amazon did almost no rebates of the price, so the result was clear: it didn't sell.
It also shared almost all the shortcomings of other models in the Kindle lineup: poor battery life (with the possible exception of the Oasis), awful font choices (why invest $$ in an e-reader when you are going to read your books with an ugly, utilitarian font such as Bookerly with no better default options and no chance of supplying your own?), and lack of a case (again, save the Oasis).
I hope they soon lauch something with PagePress and with other drawbacks of the Kindle e-ink lineup removed.
The galaxy icon theme, which used to be the default icon theme, was removed.
There is no mention of this change in the ChangeLog.
However, you can download an extension with the icon teme here:
https://extensions.libreoffice...
I use this icon set so this was a nasty surprise, compounded with the lack of any mention in the release materials. Not good, LO folks.
Thankfully the functionality is just an extension away.
What about a phone with decent specs *and* a sliding keyboard like the N900, and that does not cost you your other eye?
No it's not. Slackware is one among many forums within the site. Equating linuxquestions.org with the whole Slackware community is misleading.
[citation needed]
Slackware is LinuxQuestion's 2016 Desktop Distribution of the Year
Slackware is LinuxQuestion's 2017 Server Distribution of the Year
I think this speaks clearly about the distro's popularity.
How many floppy disks does it take to install today?
Well, since a ISO image of Slackware-current amounts to 2.8 GB, i'd say that a full install of Slackware-current would take about 2000 1.44 MB 3.5" floppies.
It always was.
Give it a try. It might not be 100% easy to install (only 99% ;-) but it's very low maintenance. And for many people, believe me, this is a godsend.
This, and also because versions are realeased "when it's ready". There's no rush to release a great system. If you want cutting edge, you can run the development version (that, IMHO, it's more stable than most distros' stable releases) and you will get the latest and greatest in almost everything.
Slackware introduced Pulseaudio recently, and if I'm going to run Linux at all, it'll be Poettering-free. So far they've rejected systemd at least, but I don't think they can hold out much longer on that front, since all the major desktop environments have been co-opted by now.
Running Slackware without pulseaudio is supported. Slackware provides a basic series of packages which are pulseaudio-free and the instructions to setup a pulseaudio-free system are fairly easy.
Maybe. But slackpkg is standard from several versions ago and it works beautifully. Really, right now package management works very well and the biggest difference with other distributions is the lack of dependency resolution. This is by design; the whole thing is predicated on the basis that you do a full install.
It's great to see a systemd-free distro making progress. Hope they keep releasing.
And remember, Slackware is the oldest GNU/Linux distro in active maintenance, and is also free of systemd. Even the development version (Slackware-current) has no systemd.
I use Claws Mail. It's light on resources, fast, stable, and can deal with gigabyte-sized mailboxes without a hiccup. Moreover, it uses the MH mailbox format, where each email message is a single plaintext file so it's very flexible and if necessary it allows for straightforward manipulation directly from the shell. There's even a nice book available on it.
I agree with Stallman's position which maintains that GNU/Linux is the correct usage; but there's an additional point.
Right now I think using "GNU/Linux" is useful as a shorthand to differentiate our regular "Linux distros" from Android (which uses a Linux kernel) and similar projects (such as Chrome OS). All of them are "Linux". So, GNU/Linux conveys the idea that is Linux at the kernel as well as a standard GNU userland as its base.
I do. Streets in my city (Asunción) are awful. Lots of potholes and plenty of ill-designed and ill-placed speed bumps. When you have low quality streets, a high ride is a godsend.
Totally agree. I own a Moto G Play and I plan to purchase another Moto G when the time to change this device comes. Great devices and no crapware.
how many of them are portrait-sliding phones?
I know about them. But you are confined to selected models only and this is an aftermarket solution. Nice but not ideal.