Cosmic Desktop by System76 for GNU/Linux

[DiTBho]

It's here, it's alpha, it's not exactly "stable", but it keeps getting better and it's very well designed!
It's based on Applets system instead of GNOME-way plugins.
Written in RUST, it supports both tiling and windowsing working schemes!
Even if you have more than one LCD, you can choose which method to use for each screen!

Like it

[DiTBho]

(
I was not able compile it for HPPA because there is no RUST compiler for GNU/Linux-PA
but with llvm/Clang, I was able to compile it for
PPC32/BE (PowerMac-G4)
PPC64/BE (PowerMac-G5)
PPC64/LE (IBM POWER9)
So it's somehow even non-x86 friendly...
)

[bson]

Hmm, gcc deprecated HP-PA sometime around gcc-4, right?  That would have been long before the rust frontend, so not much point building an old version.

[DiTBho]

gcc deprecated HP-PA sometime around gcc-4

• gcc { C, C++, Fortran } had serious bugs with v4.1.1, but it has been always supported, and available in every stage1-3 made by Catalyst (Gentoo)
• gcc { ADA } has neever been supported by Gentoo, I had to resurrect v5, which took 2 years of work during weed ends, and it's still a big problem to compile modern { gnat, vhdl } as external compilers, or compile gcc with ada-core
• llvm/clang has never been supported for HPPA

[DiTBho]

• gccrs Rust language ontop of GCC is ... too experimental at the moment for HPPA ...
• ...

[SiliconWizard]

That's surprising.

[magic]

I have lost count how many Apple knockoff UIs for Linux I have seen in the last 20 years, but this Orion Nebula wallpaper definitely sets this one apart from all others

[DiTBho]

That's surprising.

it's surprising and amazing how these new languages ​​are becoming more and more of a plague for tools.

Code: [Select]

dev-lang/go-bootstrap-1.20.14
dev-lang/go-1.22.6
app-editors/micro-2.0.13-r1

"micro" is a great text editor, with more nice features than GNU/nano.
The problem is that it's written in Go, another language that there's no way to support outside of mainstream platforms.

[DiTBho]

when you see "bootstrap", it means you need a binary
+ /usr/lib/go-bootstrap/bin/go build

Code: [Select]

amd64/le, amd64-bootstrap.tbz
arm/le, arm-bootstrap.tbz
arm64/le, arm64-bootstrap.tbz
long/le, loong64-bootstrap.tbz
mips_abi_o32/be, mips-bootstrap.tbz
mips_abi_o32/le, mipsle-bootstrap.tbz
mips_abi_n64/be, mips64-bootstrap.tbz
mips_abi_n64/le, mips64le-bootstrap.tbz
ppc64/be, ppc64-bootstrap.tbz
ppc64/le, ppc64le-bootstrap.tbz
riscv/??, riscv64-bootstrap.tbz
x86/le, 386-bootstrap.tbz

GoLang has more bootstrappers than Gnat, but still no love for HPPA.

It makes me feel like Ulysses who takes decades to get home