Yes, in 1995, I was very disappointed that red hat 2.0 made me compile my own goddamn disk images before I had to write them to floppy. Which took several days on my 486SX 25 MHz processor, and that’s after almost a week I spent downloading all of the damn source code on a 28.8 baud modem. 7 disks, 13 if you wanted printer drivers. At least it had a somewhat helpful installer, not that it was capable of helping with much.
It wasn’t until red hat 2.5 that they started distributing pre-compiled disk images
Edit: tbf, nobody else did at the time, and at least red hat was one of the first start distributing it software in packages (rpm) like debian (deb), although both soon began offering software pre-compiled as they noticed people other than software developers were beginning to use Linux, and there was legitimate demand to put in the effort. By late 1995 in early 1996, pre-compiled install disks were available for both red hat, Debian, and SuSE for x86, RISC, and DEC/ALPHA, IIRC. It took a while for Slackware to come around.
While I’ve been a Linux user for a very long time, I’ve also been an Apple user for even longer. While love both, I only very recently combined them when I simply no longer could get by running Mac OS 10.15 on my 2012 iMac. The os was just to damned out-of-date to be useful anymore as my plex server, so I bit the bullet and migrated to Fedora 44 Workstation, and wow, I’m glad I did.
There were a couple of hiccups here and there, mostly with the fact that the primary display burned out many years ago, and I have to use the secondary display as a primary display, were just difficult to set up. But, otherwise, it runs really great.
Now, I don’t imagine I’ll have much use for linux on my nine month old MacBook Pro, but I’m really glad that I’ll have the option when the time comes.
I checked as well as I could, but the under side of the house is pretty vast, and access options are pretty few. It’s been a few days now, and I’m by the access port several times a day, and I haven’t heard or seen another one since.
I generally support this practice, and when I lived in New York and had better transport options, I would do this when I had the opportunity. But I live in Florida right now, and don’t have a car. That makes it significantly more difficult for me.
I’ve seen a few cats running around the neighborhood with clipped ears, so I know it’s practiced around here by some people.
It’s as simple as this: just because you’re gay (or a member of any other minority group for that matter) doesn’t mean that you’re not a shitty person. Just look at Peter Thiel for ffs…
Sure, we should all aspire to be good people and do good by our respective communities and to help others who are “others“, but that doesn’t mean we do.
There are several neighborhood cats that come by the house. I’m pretty sure I’ve also seen the father running around. It doesn’t surprise me that the mother chose the underside of our house to give birth. I’ve also seen an opossum running in and out of there before. :(
I can only hope that the kitten we discovered was the only one.
yeah, the whole conversation about moving the cemetery where they're overlooking the neighborhood was the dad talking to his boss. his boss is complimenting him on being the top house salesman, and how, and a big bonus, he's gonna give him a new house once the new neighborhood extension is completed in a few years.
and the dad's all like, "but where are you gonna build it?" and the boss guy is like, "oh, ya know, the cemetery. we're gonna move it." and the dad is like, "won't that piss people off?" and the boss dude is like, "we've done it before with your neighborhood." and the dad's like, "uhh.... huh..."
that's why you see coffins popping up in the half-dug up pool in the back yard near the end of the film. that's also why, at the end of the movie, when the family runs out of the house, right before it implodes with ghostliness, and the boss guy drives up and comes up to the dad all WTF, the dad grabs the boss and screams at him, "YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES! YOU LEFT THE GAVES DIDN'T YOU‽ YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!!!"
which means the dad is pretty much the only one who figures out why any of that crazy shit actually happened.
edit: ok, time for a rewatch. that movie is sooo good
Yes, in 1995, I was very disappointed that red hat 2.0 made me compile my own goddamn disk images before I had to write them to floppy. Which took several days on my 486SX 25 MHz processor, and that’s after almost a week I spent downloading all of the damn source code on a 28.8 baud modem. 7 disks, 13 if you wanted printer drivers. At least it had a somewhat helpful installer, not that it was capable of helping with much.
It wasn’t until red hat 2.5 that they started distributing pre-compiled disk images
Edit: tbf, nobody else did at the time, and at least red hat was one of the first start distributing it software in packages (rpm) like debian (deb), although both soon began offering software pre-compiled as they noticed people other than software developers were beginning to use Linux, and there was legitimate demand to put in the effort. By late 1995 in early 1996, pre-compiled install disks were available for both red hat, Debian, and SuSE for x86, RISC, and DEC/ALPHA, IIRC. It took a while for Slackware to come around.