Avatar

Ananace

ace@lemmy.ananace.dev
Joined
20 posts • 32 comments

Just another Swedish programming sysadmin person.
Coffee is always the answer.

And beware my spaghet.

Direct message

That is true, I didn’t even think of early access.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Completely blanked on early access pricing, so yes, if you bought it before release then it was likely cheaper still.

permalink
report
parent
reply

I assume both the $20 and $25 prices were during alpha/early access. Was thinking entirely of release pricing.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Well, one available case you can look at is Uru: Live / Myst Online, currently running under the name Myst Online: Uru Live: Again.

They open-sourced their Dirt/Headspin/Plasma engine, which required stripping out - among other things - the PhysX code from it.

permalink
report
reply

Mercurial does have a few things going for it, though for most use-cases it’s behind Git in almost all metrics.

I really do like the fact that it keeps a commit number counter, it’s a lot easier to know if “commit 405572” is newer than “commit 405488” after all, instead of Git’s “commit ea43f56” vs “commit ab446f1”. (Though Git does have the describe format, which helps somewhat in this regard. E.g. “0.95b-4204-g1e97859fb” being the 4204th commit after tag 0.95b)

permalink
report
reply

To be fair, OpenSUSE is the only project with a name like that, so it makes some sense that they’d want it changed.
There’s no OpenRedHat, no OpenNovell, no OpenLinspire, etc.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Not at all what my point was. There’s indeed plenty of Open-something (or Libre-something) projects under the sun, but no free/open spins of commercial projects named simply “Open<Trademarked company name / commercial offering>”.

permalink
report
parent
reply

And it’s still entirely unrelated to my point, since SUSE will remain the trademark in question regardless of what’s actually contained in OpenSUSE.

But yes, the free/open-source spins of things tend to have somewhat differing content compared to the commercial offering, usually for licensing or support reasons.
E.g. CentOS (when it still was a real thing)/AlmaLinux/etc supporting hardware that regular RHEL has dropped support for, while also not distributing core RedHat components like the subscription manager.

permalink
report
parent
reply

GitLab has been working on support for ActivityPub/ForgeFed federation as well, currently only implemented for releases though.

permalink
report
parent
reply

That goddamn Doctor Benny’s box gets me every time, the fact that they even remixed the theme to match is just glorious.

permalink
report
reply