awesome WM and how to handle multiple monitors

Recently I’ve started using new window manager. Since I’ve always wanted to try some kind of tiling window manager I thought that a fresh installation of an OS on a new machine is good time to have a go at that. From the multitude of possibilities I’ve chosen AwesomeWM. It’s reasonable enough in its standard configuration so I’ve decided to stick with it at least for the time being. In fact the only important feature I look for in a tiling window manager is the tiling behavior. All the other features are somewhat… uninteresting. Even more’ the multitude of config options is rather too much for me as I don’t want to focus on configuring my work environment. ...

February 6, 2021 · 2 min · Marcin Cylke

operating systems showdown

Modern open source operating systems vs modern software development practices The reason to write this blog post was a presentation I watched some time ago, and commented on it on Twitter: One of the slides from the presentation. How can you develop an operating system and follow *that* kind of process?! :sadpanda: pic.twitter.com/3XuHMXc0My — Marcin Cylke (@zygm0nt) January 5, 2020 So to be specific - the whole presentation was rather negative towards security model used along OpenBSD development. The presentation itself took a lot of time to go over recent security issues, false claims, etc. ...

December 5, 2020 · 12 min · Marcin Cylke