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Name: K. Lange
Email: klange (at) toaruos (dot) org
Subject: Re: "Way, Way Outside!"

Your recent article titled "Linux and the Multiverse", published in the January 2019 issue, featured a subsection "Way, Way Outside!" about PonyOS. It is always an honor to see my creations featured in media publications, especially in print form. As I say on my website, and as Marcel reiterates in the article (though perhaps with a tone that may not convey sincerity), PonyOS is not a Linux distribution - its kernel and core applications instead deriving from my real hobby OS project (ToaruOS), where they were written from scratch by myself and a handful of contributors over nearly a decade. PonyOS is, of course, a joke - a special release, updated once a year on an equally special day. As it's been several months since the last April Fools, much has happened in the upstream project, and as such the latest release of PonyOS is a sort of time capsule, capturing a bygone era for both projects - rather nostalgic to me! PonyOS a

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Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)
Double free detected: 0x174ca10 (allocated by 0x3de14f)

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local@livecd /usr/out$ ./open-mkstemp-rdonly                                                          [11/22 16:23:47] 
local@livecd /usr/out$ ./open-mkstemp-rdonly-trunc                                                    [11/22 16:23:50] 
open: EINVAL
local@livecd 1 /usr/out$ ./open-tmpdir-rdonly                                                         [11/22 16:23:52] 
local@livecd /usr/out$ ./open-tmpdir-rdonly-append                                                    [11/22 16:24:00] 
local@livecd /usr/out$ ./open-tmpdir-rdonly-creat                                                     [11/22 16:24:03] 
open: EISDIR
local@livecd 1 /usr/out$ ./open-tmpdir-rdonly-trunc                                                   [11/22 16:24:09] 
open: EINVAL
local@livecd 1 /usr/out$ ./open-tmpdir-rdwr                                                           [11/22 16:24:19] 

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local@livecd ~$ sudo msk update                                                                       [11/07 13:53:08] 
[sudo] password for local: 
local@livecd ~$ sudo msk install src src-tools                                                        [11/07 13:54:01] 
The following packages will be installed:
    zlib ungz src python gcc binutils build-essential src-tools
Continue? [Y/n] y
Install 'zlib'...
Install 'ungz'...
Install 'src'...
Install 'python'...

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Language	files	blank	comment	code
C	326	9290	7371	53030
C/C++ Header	128	1515	867	13663
Python	25	1159	351	6061
Assembly	14	104	53	465
Bourne Shell	20	90	6	293
make	1	81	67	235
Markdown	4	107	0	188
Bourne Again Shell	1	3	0	7

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/usr/local/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/cc1: sscanf("6.4.0", format="%d.%d.%d", ...);
/usr/local/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/cc1: sscanf: out 6
/usr/local/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/cc1: sscanf: out 4
/usr/local/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/cc1: sscanf: out 0
/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/libgcc.a: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

readelf: Error: Archive member uses long names, but no longname table found
readelf: Error: libgcc.a: bad archive file name

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local@livecd /opt$ /usr/local/bin/i686-pc-toaru-gcc -o /tmp/test test.c               [10/12 13:11:54] 
/usr/local/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/cc1: sscanf(..., format=%d.%d.%d, ...);
/usr/local/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-toaru/6.4.0/cc1: sscanf(..., format=%d.%d, ...);
test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:6:1: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction
 }
 ^
libbacktrace could not find executable to open
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.

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remote: Counting objects: 283, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (113/113), done.
remote: Total 283 (delta 172), reused 267 (delta 170)
Receiving objects: 100% (283/283), 160.96 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (172/172), done.
From gitlab.com:toaruos/toaru-nih
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
   45e4aed..40ae768  master     -> origin/master
Updating 45e4aed..40ae768
Fast-forward

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local@base ~$ qemu-fwcfg -l
0x0020 bootorder (27 bytes)
0x0021 etc/acpi/rsdp (36 bytes)
0x0022 etc/acpi/tables (8192 bytes)
0x0023 etc/boot-fail-wait (4 bytes)
0x0024 etc/e820 (40 bytes)
0x0025 etc/smbios/smbios-anchor (31 bytes)
0x0026 etc/smbios/smbios-tables (320 bytes)
0x0027 etc/system-states (6 bytes)
0x0028 etc/table-loader (4096 bytes)

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built-in function 'abort'
built-in function 'atan2'
built-in function 'ceil'
built-in function 'frexp'
built-in function 'ldexp'
built-in function 'log'
built-in function 'modf'
built-in function 'snprintf'
function 'abort'
function 'atan2'