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It's basically a micro Unix implementation aimed at old and resource constrained systems. I've been following it for a few years. The documentation is terrible, there are hardy any updates, but it does seem to be making slows, steady progress behind the scenes. I think it just needs to reach a critical mass of functionality and we'll see it popping up on raspberry pi picos, 8-bit micros etc. Definitely needs some TLC in the comms department though. Oh, and don/t be fooled by the archived status - it moved to https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX


> FUZIX is a fusion of various elements from the assorted UZI forks and branches beaten together into some kind of semi-coherent platform and then extended from V7 to somewhere in the SYS3 to SYS5.x world with bits of POSIX thrown in for good measure. Various learnings and tricks from ELKS and from OMU also got blended in

This README reads like a blog post.

Is this intended for some kind of professional purpose? Because I could see this being amusing for hobby purposes but I have no idea what I'd do with it at work.


> Is this intended for some kind of professional purpose?

No. Retrocomputing. Fun. Learning.


Frankly, if you think that, you're not exactly a power user of office suites. Apple apps are a complete joke in the professional world.


The statement that Apple has been supporting businesses for decades is just the most self-serving bunch of crap. You can tell how thin this is by the way they push local ads on Maps as some kind of headline feature. What a joke.


I unexpectedly liked this. I thought the recommendations were actually useful.


I sadly didn’t share that experience - I fed it my goodreads most recent - but it largely picked up on 2 or 3 series I’ve been slowly working my way through so that most of the recommendation list was ALL the other books in the series (and the spin-off series) so I didn’t really get anything useful…


Wow, that is one ugly vehicle. It looks like it's been in an accident.


JetBrains does a great job with this by actually rewarding users who report bugs with free licenses and such.


Delusional.


They're still using CVS?


One of the NetBSD developers is a Mercurial developer and I think the general plan for a while has been to switch to Mercurial once a few technical issues have been fixed. I'm not sure if that has fully happened now and it is just waiting on the right people having enough time or what the status is. I think NetBSD and OpenBSD are the last two actively maintained open source projects that use CVS, at least as far as I am aware.

However, at least for NetBSD (don't know about OpenBSD) there is an official mirror on Github and you can submit pull requests there if you want (I'm fairly sure this will stay the case even after a switch to Mercurial). Some of the main developers mostly use git until a commit is almost ready. I think the main practical difference from the project using git as the main repository for anyone who doesn't have commit access is that while commit messages will mention the contributor I don't think it is linked on github to the contributor in the same way it would usually be with an accepted pull request. At most there might be a tiny number of extremely minor issues with the repository conversion left, and I think those might have been fixed by now as well.


If it works for them why not, and compared to rcs it's really not too bad ;)

In some aspects the old centralized versioning systems are superior to distributed systems like git (for starters, they give you a single linear history with incremental revision numbers).


Why are the words 'Computer Vision' not above the fold on the front page? How am I supposed to know that CV stands for Computer Vision rather than Curriculum Vitae?


I've seen a bunch of companies do this. The problem is always that it isn't Excel. This means usually things like XLWings, Excel-DNA, etc. are actually more useful.


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Hmm, Neptyne doesn't support XLWings and that link doesn't resolve. Where did this come from?


I think GPT-3-bots are trolling HN now...


Right? It looks exactly like what GPT3 would say!


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