CMake Wizard 2.3 (Maint. release)

Posted by JeffC Published in General, Technology

Greetings all. This will just a be short post to provide CMake Wizard 2.3. This is just a maintenance release to cover some changes in GCC that have come out recently that prevented the generated projects from compiling. Essentially it is just the inclusion of stdio.h to the file to provide the macro EOF for [...]

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Mar

Can we dispense with the Grandma test and do some real good?

Posted by JeffC Published in General, Technology

Perusing LinuxToday I am seeing YAGULA (Yet Another Grandma Uses Linux Article) and I am thinking to myself that we are going at this all wrong. Honest, I am delighted that someone’s Aunty Foo or Grandma Bar uses Linux…really. Unfortunately this example of use has become so much a part of our general litmus test [...]

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Oct

The difference between “Don’t wanna” and “Can’t”

Posted by JeffC Published in Blues, Technology

Here is a real-world example of something Windows will never do do that Linux *encourages*: rebuilding your kernel to support new hardware. You can do this on Linux; you may not want to but it is really nice knowing that you can. Microsoft will never ever allow this so opting with Linux here is [...]

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