Lug-nuts February 2026

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free software maintainer complaints
by Brian E. Lavender 02 Oct '26

02 Oct '26

LibXml2 seems to be one of those un glorious packages to maintain. I saw the following posted by a project maintainer. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913 His observations on disclosing security vulnerabilities seem to be interesting. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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anyone heard from Charles Polisher?
by Brian E. Lavender 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Has anyone heard from Chuck? I regularly keep in contact with him often by phone, but he stopped answering his calls and hasn't responded to email. The last I spoke with him was Dec 28. He moved to Oregon several years back and I don't have his street address. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Re: Systemd
by Kevin Brisson 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Gary, computers are hard and shouldn't be used by retired folks. :) Run it like below, it will load last. Use AI for docs - much easier and faster than our brains. Type=idle Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however, actual execution of the service program is delayed until all active jobs are dispatched. This may be used to avoid interleaving the output of shell services with the status output on the console. Note that this type is useful only to improve console output, it is not useful as a general unit ordering tool, and the effect of this service type is subject to a 5s timeout, after which the service program is invoked anyway. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.service.html Kevin

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Social meetup this Tuesday at Raley's on Freeport
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

We will meet at the Raley's on he mezzanine level at 630pm. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2026/february-2026.html This location is accessible via the SacRT Route 62. See you there. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Re: Wayland
by Gary 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

I am mad. I bought a book about "Enshittification". The title pretty much says it all. I found a link from one of Brian's post about what is going on with X and the guy who is making a fork. It really changed my mind on forks being churn. I'm looking into making my own disto. But that is just crazy ;) But, don't look too hard, the kernel is turning into a piece of work too. How do you deal with that? It's just IBM, and others, trying to make a buck off of something that they provide for free. I'm sure, at the end of the day, there will be some kind of subscription. I'm glad you made it back. Sorry we didn't fix anything while you were away. But, it is swimming against the current. Look at mailing list. I think they're generally great. What do people use now: X, Slack, Facebook, and their ilk. I like this list, and I'd really like to revive mailing list in general, but I don't know how LOL. And I feel warm knowing that we don't have a giant corporate overlord. But, in our favor is that Wayland is really poor, right now. It is going to cost someone a bunch of money to fix that. And most of the user community is happy with X. So they are going to try to break X. Embrace, Enhance, Eliminate. I'm keeping my eye on the X fork. I think the kernel is only at the Embrace, Enhance step. But, somehow, someone, wants a subscription there. It's nothing new. The room is cheap, but there is a resort fee that you don't get to know until it's too late. Fooled me once. I've never been back. But, I see that they are all doing just fine. Cable TV. This economic model has roots and most people don't care. Like they don't care how much the car cost, just what are the payments. The fact that they went from 3 year loans to 7 year loans doesn't seem to bother most people. They are just getting around to implementing that model on Linux. And, this is the door they chose. On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Linus Sphinx wrote: > Been through hell, a coma, brain damage and climbed out of my grave to > actually try some dev but first had to upgrade everything running Fedora in > the house and just wanted to let you guys know I am not Ok with having this > heinous incompatible garbage rammed up my ass. IS ANYBODY ELSE PISSED? We > Linux users look like a bunch of pussies just letting this go by, we need > to speak up loud and clear NOW. The desktop market was ours, MS screwed > their users and committed suicide with Win 11. Does nobody remember the > Year Of Linux Desktop? It was here, the world was ours, and our leading > desktops decided to drive their dick in the dirt by killing off X11 after > decades of working with everything. I smell a rat, somebody got paid to > make sure that didn't happen. Violating the whole spirit of Unix, ending > components and turning GDM into a monolithic POS. How the hell long was I > out? > [image: redcrap.png]

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