I installed Sparky Linux 7 on my backup laptop computer because I failed to install Debian.

Maybe Sparky Linux …

Normally, I use Debian. However, Debian 12 installer didn’t work on my Acer Extensa 💻. So I installed Sparky Linux, and it works.

People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line.

Even in 2024, many people begin using GNU/Linux with Arch Linux or Ubuntu with apt-get, then later they complain that Linux is not for average users. Maybe the community needs more GUI only tutorials.

1. VTech Laser 200
2. Do you count MBasic REPL? (If not, it was Borland Sidekick)
3. PRINT 10
4. ~5 years (if LOGO is counted)
5. LOGO
6. Emacs
7. Common Lisp (but it can be Python, JS, Golang, or Clojure if you want to hire me.)
8. Common Lisp

Like Thinkpad, the main brand is Lenovo. Thinkbook keyboard is like Acer and other brands.

I’m using Lenovo ThinkBook, which is cheaper than Thinkpad, and the keyboard layout is different. It supports upto 40GB of RAM.

1. esrap
2. Expat
3. No
4. Nikodemus Siivola, Jan Moringen
5. While many programming languages offer Packrat parser libraries, Esrap stands out for its simpler rule definition. Esrap uses a defrule macro, offering a specialized language for defining parsing rules, unlike other parsers that might rely on class construction. Class construction can be less intuitive when it comes to understanding the relationship between classes and parsing rules. This makes Esrap a great choice for writing parsers.
6. DSL
7. I have no idea.

What Lisp programming languages do you use?

1. Common Lisp
2. Clojure

What non-Lisp programming languages do you use?

Rust, etc.

What is your favorite Lisp programming language? Why?

SBCL can compile Common Lisp into optimized native code and the community provides libraries that I need.

What is your favorite non-Lisp programming language? Why?

Ruby can be used as AWK with JSON parser and Unicode support.

What is that one thing about your favorite non-Lisp language that you wish to see in your favorite Lisp language?

Awk-style one-liner

RK3588 is used in many Linux devices, but I’m not sure if Rockchip is in the BDS list. I don’t know which factory was RK3588 from.

I heard that Linux gets new patches for Loongson, but I didn’t try it yet.

Yes, it is stable.

  #[allow(unused_assignments)]

Thank you. This works!

It doesn’t work, at least, on rustc 1.75.

Clippy didn’t tell anything about the macro.

warning: dereferencing a tuple pattern where every element takes a reference
  --> src/lib.rs:13:9
   |
13 |         &Some(ref cons_rc) => {
   |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#needless_borrowed_reference
   = note: `#[warn(clippy::needless_borrowed_reference)]` on by default
help: try removing the `&` and `ref` parts
   |
13 -         &Some(ref cons_rc) => {
13 +         Some(cons_rc) => {
   |

To put #[allow(this_linting_rule)] like this:

    [ $x:expr, $( $y:expr ),* ] => {
	#[allow(unused_assignments)]
	{

I got error[E0658]: attributes on expressions are experimental.

To put it like this:

#[macro_export]
#[allow(unused_assignments)]
macro_rules! list {
    () => {
	None

It doesn’t work.

Because of the Redhat incident, I started to see people asking for community-based distros without a corporate that dominates the community. And, Mageia is one of them. So, I hope it will be more popular.

• KDE is the default. So, for KDE users, Mageia with KDE was tested.
• Mageia comes with Drake tools for configuring almost everything. IMO *drakes look quite friendly. Since they have been around for 20+ years, they must be stable.
• Each release will be supported for 18 months, which is longer than Fedora.

Such files are relatively easy to create and read, as they are basically shell scripts.

I agree. I lean towards writing in Bash script instead of learning yet another special-purpose language. Nonetheless, the RPM spec doesn’t seem to pose any additional difficulty.

The immutability and configuration of Nix seems so appealing but at this point I’m really comfortable with Arch and it does everything I need in a pretty sane way so idk if I’d switch anytime soon.

Back in 2018, I had the experience of using NixOS. At that time, I noticed that the Nix language had a striking resemblance to Haskell, which stirred up feelings of anxiety within me.

One is that it’s a shell script,

Using Bash sounds convincing to me.

Do you also dislike openSUSE and openMandriva?