Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/3/25 7:27 AM, -hh wrote:

On 1/3/25 6:52 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/01/2025 11:45, D wrote:

No I think it is just because someone pulled in comp.os.linux.advocacy. Seems a lot of trolls reside there. I looked into it, found it way to annoying, and stopped. But I got a reminder of why I stopped reading that group.

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Yup. Ain't that the truth.

 Yup, its a product of crossposting.  Things change and USENET just doesn't have the audience it did 30 years ago to have groups have sufficient critical mass to sustain (on- or off-topic) dialogs/

   USENET isn't what it was ... has kinda fallen off
   the proverbial radar. IMHO this is kinda GOOD.
   Shit ... when I first got into Usenet the AI guru
   Minsky used to post to the AI groups - things were
   respectable then.

Linux is good all by itself. Doesn't need advocacy.

 Its a tool like anything else, so use the right tool for the job.

   Well ... 'tool', yes ... but ALSO a 'philosophy',
   a way of looking at things. Lin is NOT Win.

Advocates in COLA have historically fight against the wisdom of understanding that everything has its own strengths & weaknesses, swimming against uses where other solutions are better.

   Well, Win is MOSTLY 'weaknesses' ....

For example, take a new digital camera: wouldn't it be nice to not have to wait a year to read its new RAW file format?  Most folk just want pics, so they choose a platform where its supported on launch, not to have to sit down to DIY write & test a 3rd party driver first.

   Linux, and esp BSD Unix, are always a bit behind
   the driver curve. However I've never found that to
   be a major inconvenience. Much stuff just doesn't
   change that quickly anymore.

Meantime, my New Year's Resolution is to tweak my Linux NAS; seems that it needs a better RAM cache to not bottleneck on network, and those parts are due to arrive this weekend. I'll have to look around to see if I have some spare NVMEs to change up its disk cache while I'm at it too.   If that doesn't resolve things, then its probably time to look to some network gear to move some nodes from 1GbE to 10GbE.

   Done lots of NAS over the years. Used packages
   and kinda wrote my own too.
   Yes, 'tweaks' can help - a LITTLE.
   However, if you really try to benchmark it, the
   tweaks don't REALLY add much but complication
   and ops for failure.
   So, from my long experience, stick close to
   'vanilla' and you'll do OK and not SUFFER.
   Oft unrealized gem these days - OpenMediaVault.
   It's become a very complete NAS system yet is
   still kinda 'light' code-wise. DO note that
   you can't just write randomly to its files
   because the system won't index it - will not
   think your direct writes exist. Gotta set up
   like SMB shares in scripts or whatever that
   ref it's 'approved' shares. THEN it'll work.