And basically only used by those allergic to Samba's GPLv3.

Is that the reason? In the past, a kernel webserver called tux (IIRC) was removed because it was just rediculous and the performance gap was considered a solved problem, not worth keeping an in-kernel server around.

I don't think tux was ever included in the mainline kernel. It was closer to a proof-of-concept than a serious http server alternative.

It also supports RDMA (sometimes called "SMB Direct").

Or a Rosetta-based emulator (like Parallels). But 86Box is going to be very bad there.

While they claim "accuracy" as one of the goals for 86Box, I believe accuracy is overrated in PC emus (you don't really need that much accuracy due to the variety of PC clones, and emus are not that accurate anyway). For me the biggest point for using 86Box over other PC emulators/virtualizers is the large selection of virtual hardware available to emulate, not performance.

86Box is just accurate enough to run the original unmodified firmware. It does not emulate cache and RAM behavior, so you won't get performance-related accuracy. You are likely to succeed in Spectre-like attacks against an emulated 386, which shouldn't be possible on a real thing.

If you don't care and just want to go faster on a modern x86 CPU, you can replace the CPU emulation part of 86Box with a hypervisor. I tried running a Socket 7 motherboard firmware on Linux's KVM - given the chipset emulation is correct, it works: it amusingly identifies an AMD Zen5 running at 3GHz as "Unknown-S CPU at M60MHz" and boots to a DOS prompt.

Kind of proving why accuracy is not really that important for the PC world. Most era firmware would have tried to run on as much variety of machines possible.

That's Box86 [not a joke].

Thanks, you saved me a lot of time.

When actually it should be software companies that should be worried. If you believe like some guys do that you can just point an LLM to any piece of software in the world and ask it to patch it / replicate it / maintain it with zero copyright repercussions, what is the point of software companies again?

If you believe like some guys do that you can just point a camera at any painting in the world and replicate it, what is the point of painters again?

(i.e. the ability to copy existing things does not obsolete the need to be able to make new things)

Which is why compared to the times before the camera was invented, earning the living as a painter is vastly reduced to a few that manage to make it.

Likewise since digital photography became common, most photography shops closed, those that are around usually barely survive with services like photos for government official documents.

Events photography is also a niche nowadays, as the organisers then sample the photos done by guests on their mobile phones. Very few professional photographers still get such gigs.

There have been shitloads of open source RADs. They do not generate much interest.

I once worked on a handheld garmin gps that used a 386 ... not sure if it ever became a product, though. It definitely had moving map... 1MB of it.

IIRC, the Garmin eMap had a 386: https://www.gpsrchive.com/eMap/eMap.html.

I think it was one of their first models that had a map, earlier ones would just display coordinates/tracks/waypoints.

Edit: here's a teardown of an older model where you can see the CPU: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/garmin-gps-12map/, and the wiki for the CPU has a clearer picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386EX

Right until you release it and a minor gets the NPC to talk about rape or something.

While I don't want to discuss the quality of any distro vs Windows, there is a big reason most of us use free software: because it is free. Whether for you it is because of free as in freedom or free as in beer specifically, quality may not have much to do with it.

In EU at least you can almost get free as in beer Windows, you can buy a fully legal 2nd hand (resold) Windows license for about $10, the price of a fancy beer.

Isn't Windows also basically free? Every laptop I buy has a Windows licence stuck to the bottom of it.

which means you paid for it. just because it comes bundled doesn't mean always it's free. https://en.refund4freedom.org/

No, you've been charged for every one of those licenses.

You can also just pirate it.

No and you missed the "freedom" part of the adage.

This is bad enough that I'm going to stop serving cgit. I've been doing cvsweb, then subversion, then cgit over my home server for many many years and for the first time ever this is annoying my own bw usage.

It's ridiculous also how you ban an IP then 1 second later another one picks up from where the first one left on.

I had to take down my cgit repository a few months ago. The load was causing other VMs on the same machine to become unusable.

I've been using git-arr instead with some success

This still would allow one to "strobe" the power line making it impossible for a human to see the LED but the camera could still capture snapshots and at a decent framerate even.

Naw the LED stays on a little longer after you stop capturing image data. They either have burned in firmware or a simple circuit (RC and comparator) that stops your attack.