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Finished this:



And I am about halfway through this:



I think the Wilson biography is much better, but there are not many books about Coolidge out there. Both are interesting reading for me.

Also noticed the short downtime, but trusted that wux would fix it. Thanks.

I remember when we were all running sid. For me the upgrades just got too big and slow, and major things started breaking (remember the xorg fiasco?). I also remember on the munchwhistle forum when el_K admitted that he had gone back to stable and I thought "huh, that's interesting..." -- ...

Debian Buster is out. I will probably wait a while before upgrading. I don't mind using oldstable as long as it is LTS.

https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706

^ There's not as much etymology as I thought -- there is a lot about her travels in Greece and other stuff. But it's still an interesting read. I love my Kindle for etymology -- I used to read with a dictionary so I could look up the origins of words, but the Kindle has it built in. Now I need to fi...

I love etymology, and this book has lots of it.

Still using tamsyn here, both in the console and urxvt. I have not changed anything about my desktop for some time.

Oh, a philosophy degree will help you get a good job. Wait, that's not right. At least it will be interesting. I really enjoyed my philosophy classes (general education requirements for my undergraduate degree).

CRUX 3.5 is out. Upgraded my test box with no problems at all.

https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-5

Still running Stretch on the main machine (Athlon X2) and CRUX, Alpine, and Arch on test machines.

"This video requires Flash 9 or newer" -- no thank you.

"The history and evolution of the Unix operating system is made available as a revision management repository, covering the period from its inception in 1970 as a 2.5 thousand line kernel and 26 commands, to 2017 as a widely-used 27 million line system. The 1.1GB repository contains about half ...

I'm still using firefox-esr, but I took a look at basilisk. Made by the same people who build Pale Moon, it's enough like Firefox that it might be an option if Firefox continues to get stupid.

Nice. And it's in the Debian repos. (Arch and Alpine too)

^ Nice. I did notice that they have a lot more packages than the last time I tried Alpine. I also like that the -docs are separate packages, so you can install only the ones you need. I'm almost ready to try using it on my main machine -- I like it that much. busybox pgrep doesn't have the -u option...