Posted on 01/12/2022 7:53:02 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
System76 is more than just a cool moniker. To truly learn its significance, we have to look a few hundred years into the past, to the American Revolution. Get in the car, Marty. We’re off to be revolutionaries!
Here we are, the year 1776. The American Colonies signed the Declaration of Independence to gain freedom from the British Empire. Okay! Back in the car, Marty. Yes I’m aware we just got here, but now we’re departing… for the early 2000s!
Ah yes, the early 2000s, where the disks are scratched and the phones flip in circles. Zoom in on a basement-dwelling revolutionary named Carl Richell. He was quite fond of GNU/Linux and its community and thought it deserved its own dedicated hardware manufacturer, so he decided to be the one to provide it. In the spirit of the American Revolution, this new hardware manufacturer was named System76 as a declaration of independence from proprietary software.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.system76.com ...
Can you program it in Fortran77?
What is the goal of going so far out of your way to do such an arcane old task when modern tasks are far easier and more simple?
You can, yes, but why do you need this unnecessary difficulty?
In a Virtualbox, sure.
Cool... Thank you!
The one I just configured was a mere $7000. I didn’t want to be greedy and get all,the bells and whistles. Anyone got,$7000 I can borrow until November of never?
I like the idea.
Unfortunately that is what I saw too Bob. I think they are extremely overpriced. And until this comes down they are going to struggle. They took something that has the potential to become popular and self killed it with pricing. These are more than Apple... And the OS they use is opensource and free.
Yes.
I was so annoyed at having to reboot Windows 95 all the time I went on a hunt for alternatives. I finally went with Linux preloaded on a Dell computer because having to learn Linux from scratch without a Linux system was too much. Nowadays Linux is much easier to load.
Linux is a LOT more stable now for desktop use. Also supports much more hardware.
I was being facetious about Fortran77, as if it were newer than Spirit76.
That is the only way to learn linux from scratch.
LOL!
I always dreamed about a falcon computer, but they were way out of my price range too 😆 (although probably woild have been ahead of the game hadmi bought one instead of all the ‘less expensive’ [$3000-3500 machines I have little self control znd bought when they first hit the shelves, because I couldn’t wait till prices dropped, uggh] that had cheap parts that kept failing.
way over priced, I could buy a new laptop or desktop and install any linux distro for way less...
:)
System76 is more than just a cool moniker. To truly learn its significance, we have to look a few hundred years into the past, to the American Revolution. Get in the car, Marty. Were off to be revolutionaries!
Great. Talk about timing!
Just this morning, I was reading about lonely numbers. And right off I noticed a problem in the count:
A number n is called lonely if its distance to closest prime sets a new record.
For example, 0 is the first lonely number and has distance 2 from the first prime. The second lonely number is 23, which has a minimal distance 4, since the surrounding primes are 17 and 29. The third is 120 which has minimal distance 7, being sandwiched between the primes 113 and 127.
The first lonely numbers are 0, 23, 53, 120...
?!! Poor 53 must be the really lonely number if gets ignored completely. Sad.
But to connect to the original topic regarding "76":
When I came upon that list, my first thought was that if those numbers were lonely, they need to join up; you know, like when the chickens snuggle up together to stay warm. It was cold this morning so the chicken visual was fresh on my mind. God bless the precious li'l sweethearts. Collect 'em all! ;)
23 + 53 = 76
The way I see it, the loneliness problem could have stopped right then and there, before the lonely kept setting new records for distance. What a terrible subject to keep in account.
I have good reasons for finding such things worthy of contemplation and publication, because what about 23 + 53, meeting up...
It's a familiar face, a "living stone":
אבן חיה
23 + 53 <---
It's not the Spirit of '76 for nothing!
God Bless America
The Revolution happens where [איפה]?
Here [פה], alongside the Freedom Trail, because no man is an island [אי].
And for those who know that...
"The numerical value (gematria) of the Hebrew letters that spell Amalek (240) is equivalent to that of the letters that spell safek, doubt. All things holy are certain and absolute... Amalek is doubt; baseless, irrational doubt that cools the fervor of holiness with nothing more than a cynical shrug." LINK
..."Livingstone" the name (moniker) is written as ליווינגסטון. Adds up to 240.
Poor 53 must be the really lonely number if gets ignored completely. Sad.
Psalm 118
22. The stone [אבן = 53] which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner:
23. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes:
"Say you want to see the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or witness the birth of Christ."
Get in the car, Marty. Were off to be revolutionaries!
It's quite the irony that until this morning, I had been unaware of "lonely numbers". That's because I already knew that Numbers *is* "in the desert/wilderness". It's the Hebrew name of the book.
Now if someone needs a reason to love numbers, there you go. It's like the chickens, because who can resist their love calling? :)
It's a brand new day! Simple meanings.
It's Chicken O'Clock, where L is for LOVE (ALT + 76)... where is everybody?
No, they're not cheap. Cheap comes at a price, too.
What tasks and difficulties are you talking about? I have been using Linux since the 90’s. It does everything I need to do and more, and it is not difficult.
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