When I just see my TV taking Linux updates it makes me feel so cozy. For context sake I have a veroV running osmc.
Needs more scrolling wall of text for my liking. ;)
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Yeah, bar progress is sus
Sees GUI (TUI) interface
Pathetic
I prefer to see changes in RAM and CPU registers in hexadecimal or binary output. 🤓
What am I seeing here exactly?
Its osmc updating on the veroV
Assuming this output is indeed NOT from a HDMI or other external display input. This seems to be a some kind of Whiptail UI on the command line, it's showing an update of systemd package unpacking (after the package is downloaded) on ARM platform. TV seems to be of the brand Element, never heard about it TBH. Systemd is used today by many Linux distros as a replacement of the traditional init-scripts. No other information is present in either the screenshot or the description.
The "wait for the bar filling up" should be a documented addiction in WHO standards. 😅
FLOSS? FLee and Open Source?
I believe it stands for Free/Libre Open Source Software. I think the idea is to explicitly indicate both free as in beer and free as in speech. However, to me it just sounds like throwing in a romance term for the sake of it. But maybe I'm just ill versed on the whole free/libre divide?
English has one word for libre and gratis. Some people add the "libre" to make it explicit.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll always call it FLOSS from now on.
There's lots of software out there that is available to use without payment, but is still license restricted in such a way that you are not permitted to redistribute, modify, use for commercial purposes, etc. To many, these rights are the far more important facet of "free" software, above what it costs.
But since the English language has the same word for all of these concepts, we have all these yucks running around with zero-cost but right-restricted software wearing the "FOSS" badge thinking they're part of the club. So some people add "Libre" to the acronym to explicitly disambiguate.
As someone else said its free libre open source software. Not my term I just use it because it tends to piss off the least amount of people.
I've read it as Free-Licenced Open Source Software before.
Which doesn't clarify much IMO but it turns the abbreviation into a word!
At that point, just abbreviate it LOSS; Libre Open Source Software.
Free/Libre is a bit redundant, isn't it.
