Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.

Full disclosure: I design Class IIb medical equipment for a living and our (really old) manuals are on the site as well. I really love ifixit when it comes down to tear-downs of phones or game consoles, but when I noticed last month they published these service manuals I just thought: "this is insane and really dangerous". I know due to COVID-19, repairs were difficult since access to facilities were blocked and exemptions should be made, but publishing these service manuals online so that your average washing machine repair guy can "try" and repair a medical device is dangerous. The company I work for requires a hands-on training for all repair technicians for the devices we make, and for good reason. Most modern medical devices are complex machines which require proper tools to service and re-certify. A faulty repair can at the least compromise the "essential performance" of the device and at worst kill people. Even trained technicians screw up but at least you minimized the chance of this happening due proper training. Besides the liability point of view (burden of proof will be on the manufacturer) this can be damaging to the general patient population. If the hospital or outpatient clinic decides to save money by going with the cheaper unlicensed (read untrained) service shop there is no guarantee that the repairs are done properly. Most manufacturer these days earn their money on initial sale and disposables, service is just the extra's but you get what you pay for. Basic example: Cheap service shop repairs a medical device as a side gig but fails to properly reconnect all the Protective Earth parts during reassembly. Normally after repairs you would do a full EST review but they are a cheap shop, they skip on the expensive testing tools (like a Electrical Safety Tester) that can test stuff like patient leakage or Earth bonding test. Device is put back into service but accidentally zaps a operator/patient during use due unconnected PE parts. If it was Functional Earth it might not zap anyone but screw up any measurement the device needs to do (erroneous readings) Basic example 2: John Doe (hospital tech), downloaded the service manual of a malfunctioning device. Reads the troubleshooting guide and wiggles some parts and pokes some software parameters in the service menu changing the calibration settings. YaY, the error they were experiencing goes away, back into general use. But the calibration parameters were controlling the flow control of an IVU. Its now give double the output that the is shown on the screen. Nobody will know, since they tech does not have a flow control calibration tool.... until someone dies over overdose. Would you want to have an untrained tech working on a commercial airplane that you fly on and your life depends on its properly operation? I guess you wouldn't, same goes for medical equipment. Side note, which is commercially oriented. Service manuals usually contain complete schematics and BOM of devices for repair purposes. If your device does not heavily rely on software, your competition just got free industrial espionage handed to them making it trivial to copy your device.

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Linus, is that you?

There's a COBOL shop in my small town that contracts for corporations and the government. I know several COBOL specialists in their 30s. It's actually an extremely lucrative field to get into these days, with good pay and job security.

Rewriting all that COBOL code in some other language would be bound to cause major problems.

All you need is the --enable-alsa configure option. The resulting Firefox will prefer PulseAudio if it is present, but will use pure ALSA if it is not.

Really? I've not been able to find anything other than a new release. The patches might be in git, but they are not easily found.

MINIX is obsolete.

FLIF will never kill PNG anyway as long as it keeps linking to libpng.

I've had no issues with Soylent 1.4/1.5 producing the kind of room-clearing gas that earlier versions did. It's really rather disappointing.

When's the last time it was every six months?

Hint: It was probably sometime back when the release was two CDs, and not 6 CDs and 2 double-sided DVDs.

If their plan is to get more third parties to go along with their DRM, then they haven't really learned a thing yet.