Skip Navigation

Ananace

@ ace @lemmy.ananace.dev

Posts
17
Comments
82
Joined
3 yr. ago

Just another Swedish programming sysadmin person.Coffee is always the answer.

And beware my spaghet.

  • EU accuses Google and Apple of breaking its rules, risking Trump clash

    Jump

  • 10-20% of year-on-year revenue is the going rate.

  • Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature

    Jump

  • Honestly, the two reasons I've been sticking with Plex is the federated/shared libraries and watch together.

    If they're starting to axe those then I see no reason to continue using it.

  • For which game would you most like to see a FOSS alternative?

    Jump

  • For which game would you most like to see a FOSS alternative?

    Jump

  • There are actually a few projects doing exactly that, at least for the early entries;

    • FreeSO - Open-source version of The Sims: Online but with a bunch of modern improvements, main server shut down at the end of last year
    • Simitone - Single-player interface for FreeSO
    • FreeSims - Open-source engine for The Sims
    • OpenTS2 - Open-source implementation of The Sims 2 engine in Unity

    Development pace for them is somewhat slow due apparent lack of interest - and a healthy dose of fear of EA interference - though.

  • Congratulations.

    Jump

  • Eurofighter Typhoon

  • Congratulations.

    Jump

  • Eurofighter Typhoon

  • Congratulations.

    Jump

  • Apparently posting it caused enough load to take down my pict-rs server, sorry about that.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Well, there's the ALFIS project

  • What, no MS Outlook outage jokes?

    Jump

  • MS Outlook is the joke.

  • How SUSE Is Replacing Red Hat as the Linux and Open Source Enterprise Standard-Bearer

    Jump

  • And it's still entirely unrelated to my point, since SUSE will remain the trademark in question regardless of what's actually contained in OpenSUSE.

    But yes, the free/open-source spins of things tend to have somewhat differing content compared to the commercial offering, usually for licensing or support reasons.E.g. CentOS (when it still was a real thing)/AlmaLinux/etc supporting hardware that regular RHEL has dropped support for, while also not distributing core RedHat components like the subscription manager.

  • How SUSE Is Replacing Red Hat as the Linux and Open Source Enterprise Standard-Bearer

    Jump

  • Not at all what my point was. There's indeed plenty of Open-something (or Libre-something) projects under the sun, but no free/open spins of commercial projects named simply "Open<Trademarked company name / commercial offering>".

  • How SUSE Is Replacing Red Hat as the Linux and Open Source Enterprise Standard-Bearer

    Jump

  • To be fair, OpenSUSE is the only project with a name like that, so it makes some sense that they'd want it changed.There's no OpenRedHat, no OpenNovell, no OpenLinspire, etc.

  • What are some of the obstacles of making an existing game open source?

    Jump

  • Well, one available case you can look at is Uru: Live / Myst Online, currently running under the name Myst Online: Uru Live: Again.

    They open-sourced their Dirt/Headspin/Plasma engine, which required stripping out - among other things - the PhysX code from it.

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

    Jump

  • Well, Flatpak always builds the aliases, so as long as the <installation>/exports/bin folder is in $PATH there's no need to symlink.

    If you're talking specifically about having symlinks with some arbitrary name that you prefer, then that's something you'll have to do yourself, the Flatpak applications only provide their canonical name after all.You could probably do something like that with inotify and a simple script though, just point it at the exports/bin folders for the installations that you care about, and set up your own mapping between canonical names and whatever names you prefer.

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

    Jump

  • In regards to sandboxing, it only gets as far in the way as you ask it to. For applications that you're not planning on putting on FlatHub anyway you can be just as open as you want to be, i.e. just adding / - or host as it's called - as read-write to the app. (OpenMW still does that as we had some issues with the data extraction for original Morrowind install media)

    If you do want to sandbox though, users are able to poke just as many holes as they want - or add their own restrictions atop whatever sandboxing you set up for the application. Flatpak itself has the flatpak override tool for this, or there's graphical UIs like flatseal and the KDE control center module..

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

    Jump

  • Well, if you have any form of build script, makefile, or CI, then you can easily shove that into a flatpak-builder manifest and push the build repo anywhere you want. The default OSTree repository format can be served from any old webserver or S3 bucket after all.

    I've done this for personal projects many times, since it's a ridiculously easy way to get scalable distribution and automatic updates in place.

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

    Jump

  • The majority of AppImages I've seen have been dynamically linked, yes. But it's also used for packaging assets.

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

    Jump

  • As long as your application is statically linked, I don't see any issue with that.

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

    Jump

  • Well, Flatpak installs aliases, so as long as your distribution - or yourself - add the <installation>/exports/bin path to $PATH, then you'll be able to use the application IDs to launch them.

    And if you want to have the Flatpak available under a different name than its ID, you can always symlink the exported bin to whatever name you'd personally prefer.I've got Blender set up that way myself, with the org.blender.Blender bin symlinked to /usr/local/bin/blender, so that some older applications that expect to be able to simply interop with it are able to.