Gemini Articles of Interest
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Migrating from Arch to GUIX, or, An Exercise in Toe-Dipping
As a friend of GNU, a contributor to the EFF, a rabid follower of Cory Doctorow and RMS, a subscriber of all that is FOSS and the FSF, an all around RJ¹ - and just an insufferable person in general - I've decided that the correct, moral, ethical, right, honorable, just, fair, proper, and applaudable thing to do is move more towards GNU as my choice of OS
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GUIX is a package manager that can work on top of any existing flavour of Linux, and indeed can be considered a standalone OS in itself when deployed with either the linux-libre or the hurd kernel².
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Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots
Today, I'll share about a special Linux file system that I really enjoy. It's called NILFS and has been imported into Linux in 2009, so it's not really a new player, despite being stable and used in production it never got popular.
In this file system, there is a unique system of continuous checkpoint creation. A checkpoint is a snapshot of your system at a given point in time, but it can be deleted automatically if some disk space must be reclaimed. A checkpoint can be transformed into a snapshot that will never be removed.
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Small Music: Module Files
Many years ago, I was active on a fan site based on the MS DOS video game "Jazz Jackrabbit". The site featured user-created content packs, ranging from custom levels to tilesets to helper programs, and of course fan remixes of game music. Some remixes were uploaded as MP3 files, but most were created and submitted in the same format as the music from the game itself: module files.
Module files are a group of audio file formats that are derived from the MOD file format on Amiga systems. They store samples of instruments and patterns of notes to play with those samples, along with a series of effects to apply to the notes and metadata about the music. Module files are created using programs called "trackers", of which dozens exist today for almost every platform imaginable. It was in this format that I would create and upload music.
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