Christopher Tozzi skriver om varför han fortsätter använda Linux som operativsystem på sin skrivbordsdator:

On Windows, you assume your wireless card or printer or complex display configuration is going to work, because you know vendors have invested lots of time and money in testing them for you.

On Linux, however, there is no such guarantee. So I get a little bit of a high when I plug something in or install Linux on a new computer and see that the hardware and software all work together flawlessly. (This is almost always the case these days, by the way, which is a big contrast to 2005).

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Klara Systems begår något av en kulturgärning när de berättar hela historien om FreeBSD:

FreeBSD, a free and open-source Unix-like operating system has been around since 1993. However, its origins are directly linked to that of BSD, and further back, those of Unix. During this History of FreeBSD series, we will talk about how Unix came to be, and how Berkeley’s Unix developed at Bell Labs.

Ytterst läsvärt, oavsett om man kör Linux, Unix, BSD eller macOS (eller iOS för den delen…).

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Basecamp, företaget bakom webbtjänsten med samma namn, är väldigt nära att lansera en ny e-posttjänst kallad Hey som ser riktigt lovande ut. Det enda problemet är att Apple stoppat dem från att publicera sin applikation på App Store:

On Tuesday afternoon, Apple sent Basecamp a slightly softer written notice. “We noticed that your app allows customers to access content, subscriptions, or features they have purchased elsewhere, but those items were not available as in-app purchases within the app,” it said. Because Hey didn’t qualify as a “Reader” app, Apple said that existing subscribers could log in as normal but Hey needed to make all subscriptions available to new users as in-app purchases.

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Efter över 20 år som Mac-användare har jag nu gjort det jag svamlat om i många år i både poddar och bloggposter: jag har dumpat min Mac. Min ömma moder behövde en nyare Mac än hennes gamla iMac så jag bestämde mig helt sonika för att hon skulle få min 15-tums Macbook Pro från 2015.

Vilken Mac ersätter jag då den med? Ingen. Istället blir min bärbara dator en Dell Latitude E7440 med Linuxdistributionen Fedora och min stationära dator ett hembygge baserat på en AMD Ryzen 5 3400G med fyra processorkärnor, åtta trådar och en topphastighet på 4,2GHz. Till detta blir det 2x500GB SSD och 32GB internminne. Även denna ska köra Linux i form av Fedora.

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Bloomberg:

The company is holding WWDC the week of June 22. Unveiling the initiative, codenamed Kalamata, at the event would give outside developers time to adjust before new Macs roll out in 2021, the people said. Since the hardware transition is still months away, the timing of the announcement could change, they added, while asking not to be identified discussing private plans.

The new processors will be based on the same technology used in Apple-designed iPhone and iPad chips. However, future Macs will still run the macOS operating system rather than the iOS software on mobile devices from the company. Bloomberg News reported on Apple’s effort to move away from Intel earlier this year, and in 2018.

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