Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 20, 2022

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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 01:56:15 GMT

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Debian, GNOME, Apple I, & John Deere DOOM

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Its Saturday! Which means we get to talk about the most awesome-est news stories of the week. The nerdy stuff. But, more importantly, the fun nerdy stuff. Alternative OSs, Linux, retro computing, and the like. Some big Linux-y anniversaries this week

Debian is celebrating its 29th birthday . And GNOME is celebrating its 25th birthday .

Its wild to think that both GNOME and Debian are over a quarter of a century old at this point. Even wilder to think that Ive been using both for almost as long.

Happy birthday to both projects!

Just for kicks, heres an article from The Linux Journal published back in
the year 2000 (22 years ago, when GNOME was just 3 years old) on the State and Future of GNOME . Fascinating to see how much has changed since then.

Apple I prototype sells for $677,196

Holy smokes! This 1976 prototype board for the Apple I just sold, at auction , for $677 thousand smack-a-roonies. The buyer wished to remain anonymous.

Nobody must know I own this piece of computing history! It must remain my secret! Mwahahaha - The buyer, probably

Man Hero hacks John Deere tractor to run DOOM

Most of you will probably already have seen this but Im including it here. Because it is simply too much fun.

A man (known as SickCodes has hacked a John Deere tractor computer and loaded it up with a modified version of DOOM which has a tractor riding / corn farming theme. Which is adorable.

For anyone who wants the technicals :

This took months

CPU is NXP imx6

OS is Wind River Linux 8

Model John Deere 4240

The weird graphical artifacts are just Yocto/QT quirks n 3D transparency
stuff

John Deeres X window display server is g6wm

Everything runs as root

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