POWER9 OS update and other news
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I finally have upgraded my POWER9 workstation. I was running the Fedora
[1] 38 for  years and it was  already unsupported. So some  weeks ago I
upgraded to 39. Today  I have upgraded to 40. The current  one is 41 so
it isn't that bad as it was two months ago.

I got  sick two weeks ago.  It wasn't too  bat but it was  limiting. No
cycling, home office  only (I really need  to ged a new  chair!) and so
on. I tried to limit the time in  front of the computer to 8-9h per day
so no hobby computing happened, just work.

I have  noticed that Solderpung  announced the FFLFIRSOCH 2025  [2]. An
interesting idea, I think. But it  only reminded me that I didn't write
any useful  piece of software for  years! Should I try  to do something
now?

The problem probably is that I'm out of ideas what I might need AND I'm
able  do write.  I can  do stuff  in C  and MATLAB  but I  didn't wrote
anything in the Tcl/Tk (my once  preferred way to make small GUI tools)
and even not in BASIC (which might  be a terrible language but works on
so many old machines).

Well, let's dream.  I once planned to  write a simple CAD  or erather a
drafting  application  in  BASIC.  Something  that  can  accept  simple
(single-letter)  commands  and  coordinates  and  with  (less  or  more
interactively) draw lines, arcs and maybe  a bit more. My idea was that
the main  code should be identical  for all platform but  the graphical
part  might  differ  for  every particular  platform.  I  though  about
Elektronika BK,  BBC BASIC  (there is  a patch  for the  Cambridege Z88
which makes  it able to  draw graphics) and  about some others,  too. I
never wrote a line of thet code but... maybe I should try?

By the way, is there a good BASIC interpreter for the Android?



References:

[1] https://fedoraproject.org
[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/announcing-offlfirsoch-2025.txt