Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD?

2018-02-05 Thread hiro
If HDDs weren't cheaper i would only use SSDs. and yes, the cheap consumer stuff, like samsung 850 evo. Price is the only downside IMO.

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

2018-02-05 Thread hiro
linux device trees are horror

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

2018-02-05 Thread hiro
i cannot run armv5 binaries on armv5. what gives...

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

2018-02-05 Thread Rui Carmo
Actually, there has been a trend towards standardising the device tree, and I can run ARM5 binaries on an ARMv7 without hassles. The jump to ARM64 does have some constraints, but I haven’t come across anything significant yet (at least on Linux). And you _will_ have ARM laptops (in volume)

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

2018-02-05 Thread hiro
About diversity: We're not at the size where we would move industry. This cost of supporting ARM is higher than it needs to, because every new ARM platform and every new SoC using a new ARM platform does everything differently, there are no stable standards or backwards-compatibility. I think

Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD?

2018-02-05 Thread hiro
often the usb3 hdd controllers are horrible, completely forgot about that :)

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-05 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ed floppies, a bigger problem will be to find a floppy drive... i will try and generate some images. -Steve > On 5 Feb 2018, at 04:24, Benjamin Huntsman > wrote: > > Bizarre and random question, but anyone still have any of