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Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13

theregister.com
2 points·by wmlive·7 miesięcy temu·1 comments

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wmlive
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Having managed to install and run OPENSTEP on a Frankenpad T61, albeit without network access, I'd wish someone similarily capable would create some network and PCMCIA drivers for the T6x Thinkpad generation to enable full use of its hardware capabilities.
wmlive
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
https://archive.ph/Hgm61
wmlive
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
It would help your question if you'd more clearly define what you intent to discuss about. Remote mindreading is still not a very common skill among the typical HN public. Or do you expect people first google for some of the keywords you provided?
wmlive
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Someone is also working on GNUstep integration for this browser:

https://github.com/pkgdemon/ladybird/issues/1

https://old.reddit.com/r/gnustep/comments/1q0pdd6/ladybird_p...
wmlive
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Maybe a bit more noteworthy is that this finally also includes a proper ARM64 version. And it installs and runs fine also on a Pinebook Pro.
wmlive
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'd wish there was a Midnight Commander available for Android that would allow for being used during an adb shell or ssh session. Ghost Commander doesn't cover that use case, sadly.
wmlive
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Glad you like it and thanks for the recommendation!

Nonetheless, being the maintainer of this project, i'd like to point out that this is no dedicated GNUstep distro, but a mostly Debian based distribution using a thoroughly preconfigured Window Maker as its primary user interface, and that just happens to have the whole range of available GNUstep applications added on.

As already written elsewhere[3], citing my own words, this is a better characterization of its scope:

»Window Maker is just a highly compatible X11 window manager and is supposed to work as such. There is no interest to specifically integrate it with the provided GNUstep applications, as this is not supposed to be predominantly a GNUstep desktop. The included GNUstep applications are just an addon to give people a practical way to verify what GNUstep has to offer. In fact, wmlive would be perfectly usable without providing any single GNUstep application. The freedom and flexibility provided by an X11 window manager instead of the walled garden of a specific desktop system is much more preferable to many Linux users. NeXT nostalgists might want to look elsewhere. [1][2]«

People who's interest has been sufficiently piqued to download wmlive are advised to better wait until after Debian's bookwom 12.12 point release this saturday. A final bookworm based wmlive release will be uploaded shortly after. This will also be the last and final 32bit i386 variant of wmlive. After that work on an exclusively amd64 trixie based wmlive variant will begin.

[1] https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

[2] https://github.com/onflapp/gs-desktop

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640378