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Comment: Au contrare, mon frere. (Score 1) 240

by emil (#46465431) Attached to: Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome

The "free software community" had quite a bit to say on gtk vs qt.

The design of KDE was based on a fundamental mistake: use of the Qt library, which at the time was non-free software. Despite the good intentions of the KDE developers, and despite the fact that the code of KDE itself was free software, KDE could never be part of a completely free operating system as long as it needed a non-free program to function.

Comment: Re:Why dealerships get a free ride (Score 2) 337





Comment: Re:Shill (Score 5, Insightful) 543

by putaro (#46444619) Attached to: Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty

First, people like to talk about "consuming" water. Water isn't consumed because it isn't turned into something else permanently, unlike say, oil or coal, which do not replenish in a reasonable amount of time. The only time the amount of water being used is actually relevant is when it's being pulled from a finite source for irrigation, like an underground aquifer or a river. A large portion of the planet gets sufficient rainfall to support all manner of agriculture. Raising alfalfa in California is dumb. Raising rice in Japan is not.

Feeding cattle on grassland that is not irrigated is not "consuming" water. As long as the land is not over-grazed it's not really an issue. In fact, the grass needs to be eaten and fertilized to thrive - it's co-evolved with large ruminants like cattle or horses.

So, these statistics are meaningless because it depends on where you're growing the crops as to whether or not you're consuming a finite resource. They're only useful in a local context. There are other side effects of raising cattle, such as deforestation, that are relevant.

Comment: Re:Raspberry Pi-class hardware - BeagleBone Black? (Score 1) 288

by emil (#46412419) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will

Those are x86 parts. I'd prefer a low-power ARM, as long as I get W^X, rodata, and I otherwise do not have to compromise on security.

Perhaps the recent source release from Broadcom is sufficient to make OpenBSD support easier, but I fear that the developers' perspective is now set.

Comment: Raspberry Pi-class hardware - BeagleBone Black? (Score 4, Interesting) 288

by emil (#46409335) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will

I would like to run OpenBSD on the Raspberry Pi.

I understand, sympathize, and accept your decision to avoid that platform, but what would you recommend as a stable substitute?

The BeagleBone Black seems like the endorsed alternative, although there were stability warnings until recently. The current status reads: "There are generally still a fair number of things to do on each of these boards, however OpenBSD is generally considered to be usuable on them. The platform is now self hosting, however there is no SMP support."

Would you point OpenBSD users interested in this hardware class at the BeagleBone Black? Any other advice? SLC media preference?

TI has announced that it is discontinuing the OMAP line. Will Beagle move to another ARM licensee, and does that matter much for OpenBSD?
