Because this question is asked 100 times per month, every month. Not just here. One can literally search and get a much better answered already post.
Does the major version number (4.x vs 5.x) mean anything?
No. The major version number is incremented when the number after the dot starts looking “too big.” There is literally no other reason.
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
Also,
Does the odd-even number still mean anything?
A long time ago Linux used a system where odd numbers after the first dot indicated pre-release, development kernels (e.g. 2.1, 2.3, 2.5). This scheme was abandoned after the release of kernel 2.6 and these days pre-release kernels are indicated with “-rc”.
OP’s “Arch Linux” link points to the install script, not the operating system Arch Linux.
vlc has a command line mode, cvlc. It’s not great TUI program but works.
Not true. KDE is on Devuan.
This is so fucked up. The AI company has the perfect answer and yet it rolls the die to recreate the same thing by chance. What are they expecting, really?
To be fair, the title is “Deprecated Linux Commands”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Notepad++ sits at an odd place. It’s heavier than Vim or Emacs. It’s not as feature-rich as some IDEs. That’s why it failed in Linux where alternatives are many.
What the heck is this please? The GitHub link contains nothing about “distroless”.
Exactly. Saw a thumbnail of a video on YouTube the other day: “ls -l >(cat)” (something to that effect) accompanied by something like “Insane Bash tricks you never know!” I never clicked on that video. The command looked intrigued, but I don’t want to spend ten minutes watching a video to know that.
Edit: It looks like it’s the same person.
This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,”
Well, I know, right? People who say “UX/UI” are ignorant and having no idea what they are taking about. “UX” is a designer’s job, while “UI” commonly means “front end programming”. It’s the same where your aunt asks you to fix her printer because you are a programmer.
Not far if you dig out the last C compiler written in assembly by hand. Use that to bootstrap GCC, possibly.
What if the system does not have libc?
No offence but I think I need to stop discussing with you.
Sorry but no. With such a title it’s very likely a clickbait, or a badly written one which the article doesn’t actually interest me.
As a Linux desktop user for almost two decades, can you explain to me how this Affinity thing I have never heard of, can “transform desktop Linux”?
What you mentioned is compatibility across platforms. A program written in C is also guaranteed to run on all the systems you mentioned, given that the system has a C compiler and libc that stick to the standard. You, the programmer, does not have to anything to “make sure” your program works.
See this insane list of platforms GCC supports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Architectures
We’ve invented high-level programming languages like C 53 years ago, just to get away from assembly, and to avoid dealing with the “cross-platform” problem you mentioned, remember?
You are comparing it to Eclipse. I also give you that.
VS Code is a good software? I beg to differ. It’s slow. It’s messy to look at. It’s resource hungry.
If you think VS Code is a good editor, we can make an even better editor in another language.
They should at least have tried one of them and tell people what they don’t like about it. But no, just a prompt-like question: Summarise XYZ, with pros and cons and tables and citations and screenshots.