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The ol' tealeg 🐡@tealeg@mastodon.online

Geoffrey Teale 


Born in England, adopted by Germany. 
 

First steps in programming at 6 (1983) - never stopped since.  F/OSS contributor since 1994. Software professional since 1998. 

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #HaikuOS #BeOS #Plan9 #C #Golang #Lisp #Scheme #Racket 

#Hannover #Everton #Cricket

OS: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku, Linux, Mac OS X (at work), 9Front
Programs in: Go, Scheme, Racket, Common Lisp,
WWW: https://www.teale.de
Joined: 2026-09-20 23:37:39
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The ol' tealeg 🐡@tealeg@mastodon.online (2026-09-11 16:31:53)
#endof10 was a Microsoft problem, but it doesn't mean it's a problem unique to Microsoft. Apple do it too. Almost all vendors of proprietary software pulls support for older hardware long before its useful life is other. 

Thankfully people are waking up to this and realising that Open Source offers as a practical solution to take back control, save money and reduce environmental impacts.

Even commercially supported Linux isn't safe from this.  As CERN found out:

https://www.techspot.com/news/113745-cern-moving-more-than-2200-specialized-computers-rhel.html