I am a big big big Linux fan, but I feel that after 30 years, it is time for a non-monolithic kernel. I know Linus hates the idea of microkernels but the era of Rust is finally here and it shows that safe microkernels are fully possible now, and I believe the advantages and modularity can be amazing for a new era of open source computing.
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Some of the devs around Linus are getting warmed up to the idea of a microkernel. Statistics have shown better boot times and better overall performance. As they put it "guess Tannenbaum was right all along" ๐.
Anyway, it should just be a matter of time now. Linus doesn't like the microkernel idea because it risks stability for the sake of modularity. You maintain the entire code base with a monolithic kernel (drivers, FS, everything), while with a microkernel, you just maintain the kernel, everything else is modular, maintained by someone else, thus, things can go bump in the night. The former is better for stability.
Don't break userspace.
Yep, his main motto ๐.
I'm ready for it, but it needs to be GPL3. I'm sick of vendors like Amazon and Nvidia using the Linux kernel but not publishing their drivers. Open your drivers, or dont use the kernel, that simple.
I've had it on my "to try" list for a while, but haven't set aside time yet. It looks pretty good on paper, though.
New OSes have a tough hill to climb, with a mountain of hardware drivers. Until theres a decent corpus of drivers, running on bare metal is limited to a small few number of people.
Ive tried redox before, its in a very basic state, ive never gotten it to boot on real hardware and there are only a few basic utilities and Netsurf installed
Yeah, building an OS is a lot of work. It may be a while (if ever) before Redox is a daily driver; it took Linux 10 years before it was a viable option, and another 10 before it was common... and that was back when there was far less hardware to support. Uphill battle, like I said. However, it's actively developed, has more than one contributor, and ticks the requested boxes: Rust, micro, modern.
What does that mean for modularity and support?
Microkernel only refers to the core, right? Is the idea that it can make inbound guarantees on drivers and firmware? Does it not still depend on the extensions being secure even if your micro kernel is?
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Winamp.
There's WACUP, but it's not the same and you can't run it natively on Linux.
What specifically do you like about Winamp? I miss the whacky skins and even more so the Milkdrop 2 visualization system. There are some hacky ways to get it to work for Foobar or AIMP. I haven't checked what's the case for Linux media players though.
Nothing too fancy, I like that it can load Fraunhoffer's mp3PRO plugin ๐. Sadly, I converted most of my collection to mp3PRO back in the day and there's just too many titles in there to redownload everything. So basically, I just need a player that runs natively on Linux and can load Winamp dll plugins, that's it. Well... it would be nice if it replicated the classical Winamp look as well ๐.
Though I do agree, Milkdrop 2 was awesome ๐. It runs with Winamp in Wine though, so that's not such a big deal.
Nero's Soundtrax application, bundled in the Nero Multimedia Suite, is capable of encoding and decoding this format into several others.
It's available for free now: https://nero-soundtrax.en.softonic.com/
If you're willing to run a windows VM you could probably convert them back to normal MP3s.
That'll just make them sound awfull. I know I can, I even have an old copy of Adobe Audition 1.5 that runs perfectly in Wine and supports conversion to mp3PRO and back (Adobe Audition was Cool Edit before it got bought by Adobe), but... that will be the second time these files have been converted ๐.
I've been using aimp2 for many years.
On LInux? I thought it was Windows only.
Yeah on Windows. I guess it's probably not multiplatform.
There's winamp in the browser now
Yeah, but I can't load I/O plugins on it... my main point of concern.
Ah, I see.
QMMP is good enough for me on Linux, feels like basic WinAMP which is all I need.
It takes Winamp dll plugins?
Really? Wow I haven't tried.. but there are lots of skins at least, here
No, I meant it as a question, does it take Winamp plugins ๐.
Cuz I have this oddball mp3RPO plugin... sadly, I converted most of my media back in the day to mp3PRO (storage was expensive back then, I was a student, low on funds... ๐คท). It's a discontinued codec now from Fraunhoffer (the idea was the same as with HE-AAC, spectral band replication, but do it with mp3) and... I just can't be bothered to redownload all of my collection to mp3/aac. There's just too many titles and that's the main reason why I still use Winamp on Linux, the mp3PRO plugin for Winamp ๐. If I could load that dll in any other player out there, I would gladly switch, but I can't ๐.
Ah :). Hmm, well someone else had a similar situation as you, perhaps xmms with those tweaks would work?
Shit, I had no idea ๐ฑ... I have to find this library, it must be burried somewhere in archive.org.
And isn't XMMS dead? Though Audicious is a decendant, I'd have to check if the library is compatible. Still, it's a starting point!
Thank you a million times kind stranger ๐ค๐ค๐ค!
EDIT: OK, requires a bit more work than what I was hoping for... the library is probably x86 only, so I'd probably have to use the x86 version of Audacious or any other XMMS compatible player, but still, as I said, it's a starting point ๐ค.
I would just like to play them, I wouldn't recode them, will loose audio quality cuz this will be their second recode.
OK, I tried loading the library on Audacious x86, no dice ๐...
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: /usr/lib32/audacious/Input/libmp3PRO.so could not be loaded: /usr/lib32/audacious/Input/libmp3PRO.so: undefined symbol: xmms_cfg_open_file
It's just way too old, support for XMMS and everything GTK+ related was dropped a loooong time ago ๐. Maybe with some sort of a wrapper... IDK... maybe it could work... have no idea where to start though...
Oh well, back to using Winamp 5.24 with Wine I guess ๐คทโโ๏ธ.
Homeworld
As a game there's been a few attempts, none have captured the simple beauty of the original, even if they were good in their own right.
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
I printed out a 40 page gamefaq so I could 100% it as a kid, I liked exploring the multiplayer maps by myself ๐ฅฒ kinda liminal
Myth: The Fallen Lords could use a good successor using modern tech. But keep the mechanics and storyline essentials the same, it was amazing.
EDIT: And Thief: The Dark Project too. (Styx: Master of Shadows felt a bit like a spiritual successor, but not quite..)
The game series Thief is the defining experience of satisfying gameplay for me, and there are not enough games like that. Stealth as a core mechanic, with the expectation and ability to entirely avoid combat and detection, a first person perspective for immersion, and a fascinating fantasy setting and story.
The closest to a spiritual successor is the Styx series, but it's been a while since the last one was released, so I wish for another game like that.
Isn't Dishonored somewhat of a spiritual successor?
Something like Baldur's gate with good ol' realtime with pause. Baldur's gate 3 is a great game, but playing it feels like divinity and not baldurs gate
Seven kingdoms. Late 90s RTS. I still play it and absolutely love it. It got overshadowed by C&C massively.
Thanks for the spontaneous nostalgia trip. I was playing it, or rather its sequel, in the 2000s after I got it from a magazine.
There's a HD Version of Seven Kingdoms 2 on Steam. I think I might grab it.
The original is free and open source and has been upgraded if you prefer it
I still play this one. Just love it.
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Dirty Bomb.
Great multi-player class- and objective-focused team shooters with great movement, respawn wave timer and reviving and healing. ET was very popular and has always been free. (etlegacy.com) Dirty Bomb is free to play and found only moderate success, had IMO bad monetization attempts, and was ultimately put into passive mode not being developed or maintained further, with monetization removed.
W:ET as a moddable quake game had a vibrant modding, server hosting, esport, and community scene.
I loved dirty bomb! Was alot of fun but couldn't get my friends interested.
There was a 1999 PC game called Drakan: Order of the Flame which was a pretty good time. Third-person action-adventure sword and sorcery that had some fun hidden secrets, a variety of weapons with different strengths, dragon riding... To expand on that, and probably make the protagonist a bit more realistically dressed, would be enjoyable
Metal Gear Rising
The cellphone. Some sort of next-gen version of the Humane AI pin, Oura Ring, Smartwatch, and Google Glass in a thing, or in several things.
Do non-fictional things count?