Category: Operating Systems
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Apple’s Declining Quality
I’m working on completing the port I started of Apple’s SMB file sharing client to RISC OS, for purposes of collecting a monetary bounty for adding SMB2 and 3 support, and also it’s been very good for honing my software engineering skills. Because Apple stopped supplying the source code to their SMB client after OS…
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Nokia 2760 Flip Review (TracFone, KaiOS 3.1)
My spooky “pulling technology from the near future” strategy has been paying off so far, as the $20 Nokia 2760 Flip phone with KaiOS that I’d been curious about is exactly what I need for the app I have in mind, which I won’t tell you. Here’s a single clue: the app I’m building isn’t…
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Collapse OS & TempleOS
Continuing my thoughts from previous posts: I’m convinced there’s great value in using and extending “retro” OS’s from the 1980s and 1990s, for practicality’s sake, not nostalgia’s: the real constraints of the limited power of the available consumer hardware required their creators to make efficient use of the system’s resources, which makes them easier for…