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Firefox Apps on Desktops!

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The Firefox browser has always thrived as the underdog; the "alternative" browser of choice. It's this sort of identity, along with it's historically strong security record and OpenSource nature, that had propelled it and its predecessor, "mozilla browser", to near 50-percent usage share by some counts . More recently, however, with the browser-market saturation expanded by the additions of Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browser, Firefox's usage-share has been experiencing a downward trend; even as the newer additions to the browser-market have seen exponential user growth, i.e. Chrome!

SystemD Debate and Configuration by Example

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A "healthy" debate on the virtues, use-cases, and overall disdain and misconceptions of SystemD. Specific use-cases in "less-common" configurations provide a challenge as well as an opportunity to learn about the underlying mechanism of certain aspects of the Operating System. A substantial number of years working in/with Linux doesn't preclude a person from learning how to use new tools and mechanisms even if, or perhaps especially when, the mechanism is low-level software. Users and Administrators must not get so entrenched in their ways of comfort that they reject advancements in the underlying pieces of the OS on the basis of overestimating the merit of their own existing knowledge, while downplaying the benefits of the advancements and exaggerating their problems an perceived shortcomings on surface value. Nevertheless, even though change is inevitable in our universe, it breeds chaos in the early stages of wide-spread adaptation. It's in th