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Daniel Stone
Personal blog · fooishbar.org/blogsystemsprogramming
Daniel Stone's personal blog at fooishbar.org covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Weston on Raspberry Pi”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Daniel Stone's blog covers X11, Wayland, Xwayland and graphics work, including Wayland on Raspberry Pi. HN readers link it for background on the X.org to Wayland transition and the GitLab move at freedesktop.org.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Weston on Raspberry Pi3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Another open source project on GitLab is Haskell ( https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ ). Also, this blog was published when Freedesktop announced their move to GitLab (incl. CI): https://www.fooishbar.org/blog/gitlab-fdo-introduction/ We actually have a panel with representatives from Freedesktop, GNOME, and KDE at GitLab Commit in London ( https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/#schedule)in a few weeks discussing their e…
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on “KDE is adopting GitLab”Submitted Weston on Raspberry Pi as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> when in fact the lead developers on Wayland are the actual Xorg maintainers. Daniel Stone[0] incredibly funny and educational talk[1] from 2013 could help many critics who missed the 3 decade long ongoing discussion of why X is bad . We've talked about this already in the mid 90ies (when there were no alternatives) and now 8 years after this popular linux.conf.au talk, people still having troubles understanding wh…
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on “Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet”Submitted Weston on Raspberry Pi (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> one of the (several) motivations for creating Wayland was to fix the security issues with X11 security was only a footnote in the list of arguments of why X has/had to go. X11 maintainer Daniel Stone's[0] very funny but also educational talk[1] from 2013 linux.conf.au has a lot of the gory details that make you say thank fuck and good riddance. The talk will make you feel truly grateful instead of nostalgic. Anyon…
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on “Isolating Xwayland in a VM”check this out http://fooishbar.org/tell-me-about/wayland-on-raspberry-pi/
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on “Gnome 3.10 Release Notes”The article on the reasons for doing this work is also very interesting: http://fooishbar.org/tell-me-about/wayland-on-raspberry-pi/
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on “Weston on Raspberry Pi Accelerated”
