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#sxmo on the #pinephone is one of the coolest and most empowering computing experiences i had in a long while!

A tiled window-manager on a mobile computer sounds crazy? not as much as the unified uni-dimensional logic of mobile interfaces, all trying to mimick android/iOS...

The ethos of sxmo/pmOS is of minimalism (shell scripts, suckless, dwm, etc.) and user empowerment. So easy to build interface/menus/scripts that suit your need!

Never thought i'd be excited by computers so much again :)

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最近兩天在給 AOSC/Retro 研究怎麼把現代 Linux Kernel (5.4.114 LTS) 塞進軟碟開機，原因是許多 486 等級的機器並沒有辦法直接從 CD-ROM 啟動，於是然後我做到了把 PATA (IDE) 硬碟/光碟機驅動，甚至是 Network Stack（盡量把大多數非必要 Driver 弄成 Module，放進搭配的 CD image）塞進 1108KiB 的 bzImage。還有個 150KiB 的 Initramfs，裡面是 busybox 和配套 init script，用來自動掛載 CD-ROM。

有趣的事情來了，SYSLINUX 這個 Bootloader 尺寸太大 (175KiB)，讓我很難塞東西，於是我拿 FreeDOS 的 KERNEL.SYS (46KiB) 加上 loadlin.exe （原始 42KiB，用 upx 壓縮後 11KiB） 取代它，成功省下 100KiB 以上。

最終成果是可以直接從軟碟啟動，並且只須要 8MiB 記憶體就能成功啟動。

#Linux #FloppyDisk #FreeDOS

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) gave its Award for Advancement of Free Software to Conservancy's Policy Fellow & Hacker-in-Residence, Bradley M. Kuhn. Bradley Kuhn's acceptance speech urged software freedom activists to “speak truth to power” & refuse to write proprietary software. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/mar/22/fsf-award-bkuhn/

LibreOffice is free software - but that's means more than just zero cost. It's about having the freedom to use, study, change and share the software. Learn more here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/14/free-software-its-about-much-more-than-zero-cost/ (Oh, and how many free software project logos do you recognise in this image?)

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