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There's is Ghost as well. Which I think was started by some ex Wordpress people from what I remember back in the day.


You could also get 0patch to keep it secure. They're adopting Windows 10 for security updated from the EOL date. Pretty reasonable price as well, around 30 euros per year.

https://blog.0patch.com/2024/06/long-live-windows-10-with-0p...


All praise to the Omnissiah


just use Falkon. browser by the KDE team. free, open etc. https://www.falkon.org/


Falkon uses QtWebEngine, which uses Blink, Google Chrome's engine.

Which is a shame, because as a KDE user, I would consider using Falkon otherwise.

It's extra painful knowing that KDE built KHTML, used by Apple to build WebKit, used by Google to build Blink…


Writing and maintaining a state-of-art browser engine is hard. Using an existent one is best choice unless you don't care about people actually using your browser or they're fine with accessing a part of the web.


> Writing and maintaining a state-of-art browser engine is hard

I know. And the KDE team would know too, having tried (and succeeded at the time! but could not keep up)

> unless you don't care about people actually using your browser

Why so dismissive?

Blink is not the only existing browser engine that works with most of the Web.

I'm not arguing for Falkon authors to build their own engine. That would be fantastic, but I understand they don't. I also understand their choice to use what Qt provides. Embedding another browser engine would be less straightforward or even outright painful / impossible (Gecko). Still, I don't want to strengthen Chrome dominance on the Web.


Great, thanks for sharing!


if you need to fill a RAD niche in your workflow. Pascal is still around with a nice IDE https://www.lazarus-ide.org/


Pascal is still around as well with a great IDE Lazarus. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/


I was having a twitter argument the other day with someone who maintained that they never really come across any Microsoft systems in their work and who would be crazy enough to use Windows Server. I've worked in orgs from 100 people to 10,000 and it's always Active Directory and MS all the way through with odd few Ubuntu or RHEL servers for a internal application.


You haven't worked at a tech company then.

The only Windows systems I've seen in over 15 years were to run Active Directory over 10 year ago (and not since), my personal gaming desktop (which no longer runs Windows) and GitHub runners for cross compilation.

There's plenty of Microsoft out there, but there's an entire, thriving universe where Microsoft is completely irrelevant.


IIRC, both Intel and Qualcomm have a lot of Microsoft IT infrastructure.


You would think they would publish the srpms of SLES so there could be a RHEL type clone but based on SUSE and fill that void.


OpenSUSE Leap is just that, it uses binaries directly from SLES

https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-bridges-the-gap-between-o...


It's not just binary compatible - it uses the SLES binaries directly


Thanks, updated.


I believe it's more like

* Suse releases a new distro, Purple Weed, rebased last public code of RHEL.

* With some reverse engineering effort or whatever, they provide migration path from RHEL to Suse Purple Weed ™. - for next few releases of RHEL.

* They expect customers to migrate to Suse Purple Weed ™ from RHEL (or clones), within a few versions.

Instead of RHELs proprietary-ish branch, they want their branch to take over and become defacto standard.

I guess.


Check out FreePascal with the Lazarus IDE. It's all free and the same language essentially.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/


My main issue is still app notifications in the panel. IF I'm running a syning app like Insync. I want to have the app notifier in the system tray so I can see the status without having to check the service manually to see if its running.


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