18 Jul
2020
18 Jul
'20
2:55 a.m.
On 7/17/20 2:08 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
I agree. For topicality, I think it's reasonable
to draw the line
somewhere
Agree.
I use the following questions as a litmus test, requiring both to be true.
1) Does it fall into the broad category of Unix or Unix like operating
systems?
2) Is it old ~> historic?
I use the "historic car" definition as a guideline for how old "old"
is.
Specifically 25 years old, or older.
If both of those answers are "yes", then I figure that at worst, someone
might ask "please take this topic to COFF or elsewhere.
I figure that there's a little bit of wiggle room for other topics, but
would not be surprised if I needed to justify why it belongs on TUHS vs
COFF. E.g. trying to resurrect an ancient protocol used by <bla>.
similar to what's already the case with the
"true" unixes, if I'm
allowed to use such a designation.
Eh ... can I get something to wash that down?
I'm "okay" with such designations if you will back them up with a hard
definition of what qualifies or not.
As a rule of thumb, something along the lines of: if
it's got a
historical application (say, "how do I get UUCP running on this
Linux installation designed to replicate a 1992 system?") then it's
on topic; if it's solely about modern systems ("how do I get Wayland
running with my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super?") then it's off topic.
ACK
--
Grant. . . .
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