> People often don't realize how important it was to OSS that it was preceded by decades of easy access to programming tools and resources meant for absolute beginners.
> OSS needs FPGAs, and FPGAs need what programming had back in the 1980s: an on-ramp.
Man this looks really cool. Am excite. https://www.blinklight.io/blog/2017-03-31/
@argumatronic @KitRedgrave to be honest, I stopped using Linux as a main OS simply due to the amount of effort it takes to do certain tasks on it, and the amount of maintenance required...
although that being said; I do run coreboot with an OSS tianocore payload on my netbook
@coolstar @argumatronic @KitRedgrave
What distro were you using? Because day to day running Linux I can't say I've seen it take any more effort to maintain than a Windows install.
@coolstar @argumatronic @KitRedgrave
I'm curious, what did you have to do? I'm just wondering what you need that I don't. Cuz for my home use all I've ever done was let it automatically update.
@sotonohito @argumatronic @KitRedgrave one of the things I found incredibly difficult to do on Linux was set up a WiFi access point while connected to a WiFi network. Had to compile kernel modules and use a custom patched hostapd with a 2nd WiFi NIC to only get 2.4 Ghz on Linux. Meanwhile, Windows can do this with one click on my Atheros wifi card, with only 1 card...
@coolstar @argumatronic @KitRedgrave Ah, yeah I don't do much wifi at home.
I knew there were wifi problems several years ago, didn't know there were still problems. Blah
@sotonohito @argumatronic @KitRedgrave I was using Linux Mint 17.1 (after trying and not quite liking some other distros), and even that seemed like it took quite a bit of effort to maintain