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probonopd / arewexlibreyet.md
Last active July 6, 2025 10:06

Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

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cmgauger / DX3741.C
Last active April 23, 2022 01:02
PDP-11 C program to initialize/format IBM 3740 formatte diskettes using RT-11
/* DX3741.C
*
* Copyright (c) 2022 Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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xunker / ti_silent_700_eia_to_rs232_converter_pinout.md
Last active December 5, 2023 17:22
TI Silent 700 EIA to RS232 Converter Pinout

Used on TI Silent 745, but should work on all models with 15-pin EIA connector. As seen in my TI Silent 745 Video.

  • DB-15 female is the EIA port on the rear of the TI terminal.
  • DB-9/DE-9 is the 9-pin serial port on the back of your computer, or on your USB-to-Serial adapter
DB-15 female DB-9/DE-9 female DB-15 EIA Signal Name DB-9/DE-9 Signal Name
11 1 Data Carrier Detect (DCD) Data Carrier Detect (DCD)
13 2 Transmit Data (TD) Receive Data (RD)
12 3 Receive Data (RD) Transmit Data (TD)
@bhrgu
bhrgu / vax.md
Created October 30, 2017 19:05
Resetting a password for SYSTEM account in VAX/VMS

Resetting a password for SYSTEM account in VAX/VMS

Note: you must be connected to a system via serial console

  1. Type following commands in boot console to perform a conversational boot:
B /R5:1 DKA300
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 0
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE