Off-topic, so I changed the subject line.
And while what follows is not TSO nor batch, it *does* fit in USS space,
so hopefully I won't get plonked. *:-)*
I've been collecting software in source form for several years. It
started as a hobby, but lately looks like a supply chain gap-fill.
It's a decent sized body of code. If one is up for running a Linux
kernel, you can get a fully self-hosting system with a build
environment, including several important server programs (such as the
Apache and Nginx web servers).
But a sizable portion compiles and runs just fine on USS.
I would appreciate help finding patches which facilitate the USS build.
Most packages need minor tweaks for USS, but otherwise fly smoothly. The
list is here ...
https://github.com/trothr/chicory/blob/master/doc/packages.md
It really chaps when some app stops working, "you must upgrade", not
exclusive to software-as-a-service.
Sometimes a similar thing happens in open source land: the latest
OpenSSH required a certain level of OpenSSL that I had trouble with.
(The authors can expand dependency hell, and sadly sometimes do.)
Mandatory upgrades are usually forced on us in the name of security, but
I find that the actual risks are not clearly enumerated and some are
insignificant (and I hold a CISSP cert).
This project naturally tends toward open source.
I want to software, in source form, in my own hot little hands.
Download the source code, KEEP YOUR OWN COPY, be ready to fall-back to
an older release if needed.
-- R; <><
On 1/22/24 09:19, Bob Bridges wrote:
Getting off-topic, here, but I've never felt the lure of the 365 subscription.
Maybe it's just because I'm an old fart, but I dislike the idea of using
software that they can change when THEY want to. MS Office is the one app I
shell out real money for whenever I buy a new PC; the rest of the time I'm
happy using shareware, open software and the like. But I want the software in
my own hot little hands, not theirs.
For the same reason I'd still be using POP3 instead of IMAP, if I could.
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Bob Bridges,robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
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Along those lines, if you get an office 365 subscription, bundled into this is
one-drive. So unless you specifically save documents to a file server or on/in
your computer (you do not use a one-drive path) you are using M/$ cloud.
And what I have found is, if you turn off one-drive, Word, XL, and others have problems
with saving, restoring data. But not if you have them using a file server. ?!? And this
means as soon as you create a new spreadsheet/document/powerpoint/etc. you have to do a
"save as" to the file server.
Now, enterprise users of windows & Office, whole nuther thing.
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