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| <midfavila> | pretty easy choice |
| <phoebos> | MGR? |
| <midfavila> | ManaGeR |
| <midfavila> | a windowing system from Bellcore |
| <midfavila> | originated in the 80s |
| <midfavila> | it's been described thusly: "MGR is to X as UNIX is to MULTICS" |
| <midfavila> | it's been described thusly: "MGR is to X as UNIX is to MULTICS" |
| <midfavila> | like X, it's also network-transparent. unlike X, it doesn't try to be as flexible as possible |
| <midfavila> | from what I can glean from the available information, it's basically one step up from something like TWIN |
| <midfavila> | https://hack.org/~mc/mgr/ |
| <midfavila> | this is the most authoritative site on it i've found |
| <midfavila> | based on the contents of the screenshot on that site, it's fast enough to be usable on old Suns without acceleration |
| <midfavila> | so it should be *more* than usable on a modern machine using a generic framebuffer interface |
| <midfavila> | main problem would be finding or creating a specification i think |
| <midfavila> | man, I wish Links2 allowed you to pass links to other programs, instead of just data |
| <midfavila> | match using regex or something |
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| <phinxy> | I can't remember in what directory scancode mapping is done. Help. |
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| <phinxy> | I.e map Insert key to whatever else but also different Shift levels. |
| <sad_plan> | o/ |
| <midfavila> | hello, sad_plan |
| <sad_plan> | hey midfavila. how you doing? |
| <sad_plan> | hey midfavila. how you doing? |
| <midfavila> | doing okay |
| <midfavila> | working on my coreutils on and off |
| <midfavila> | only half-asleep today instead of three-quarters, so I'm actually able to kind of focus |
| <midfavila> | you? |
| <phinxy> | Found it; /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols |
| <sad_plan> | I see. any good progress? |
| <midfavila> | okay progress |
| <midfavila> | haven't gotten anything impressive written |
| <midfavila> | sleep is implemented now, and wc is just about done |
| <sad_plan> | im good ig. been messing with oasis lately, and trying to figure out a sane way to combine kiss and oasis.. |
| <midfavila> | does oasis not use git as a package manager |
| <sad_plan> | nice. maybe Ill check it out some time around. maybe I can learn something from it too. |
| <midfavila> | i'd be pleased if anyone looked at my shitty programs lmao |
| <sad_plan> | well.. its not really a package manager. its more of a config file, which gives a set of rules really |
| <midfavila> | even better if you can somehow learn something from me |
| <midfavila> | anyway, literal package manager or not, if it serves the practical role of a package manager then kiss immediately conflicts with it |
| <midfavila> | considering... you know. kiss is nothing *but* a package manager |
| <sad_plan> | lol, your knowledge has been good to me anyhow. seeing as youve successfully answered some of my questions :p I value that anyway |
| <sad_plan> | it does |
| <sad_plan> | oasis also *uses* pkgsrc, from netbsd |
| <sad_plan> | which i suppose is fine, but their repo hasnt been updated since february. which isnt ideal imo.. |
| <sad_plan> | I also really like kiss for it simplicity in terms of packaging my own software |
| <midfavila> | idk maybe you could hack something up in awk and shell to generate kiss packages from oasis config files |
| <midfavila> | then use those to generate rootfses |
| * midfavila | shrugs |
| Later messages |
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