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On 1/4/2026 4:32 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 11:15:18 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 12/31/2025 4:31 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:51:30 -0500, DFS wrote:

... in practice, it's so difficult to make those source code mods
and recompile that it's extremely rare.

Even a child can do it <https://linuxfromscratch.org/>.

Go ahead and add a simple string concat(a,b) function - or other
trivial function - to the source code (and menus) of LibreOffice.

Nothing really to do with the Linux kernel, but anyway ...

Tools raA Macros raA Edit Macro raA type in a few lines of BASIC, and yourCOre
away.

Another Larry Duh fail.

Here's one that might be a little easier:

1) alter the default order of the columns shown in htop.
2) alter the alignment within a random column from left to right or vice
versa

https://github.com/htop-dev/htop

If you - a Linux-obsessed holder of a computer science degree - can't successfully alter the source code of the kernel/distro/utilities/apps
and recompile and deliver, what chance does the avg Linux user have?
Nearly zero.

"You have the source - fix it yourself." is one of the most obnoxious
retorts to victims facing issues with low kualitee FOSS crapware.



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On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:35:20 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 1/4/2026 4:32 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 11:15:18 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 12/31/2025 4:31 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:51:30 -0500, DFS wrote:

... in practice, it's so difficult to make those source code
mods and recompile that it's extremely rare.

Even a child can do it <https://linuxfromscratch.org/>.

Go ahead and add a simple string concat(a,b) function - or other
trivial function - to the source code (and menus) of LibreOffice.

Nothing really to do with the Linux kernel, but anyway ...

Tools raA Macros raA Edit Macro raA type in a few lines of BASIC, and
yourCOre away.

Here's one that might be a little easier:

You asked a question, I answered it -- for free.

You donrCOt get another free question. If you want to pose a new
source-code hacking challenge, then you will have to offer your own Microsoft-based answer to it as well, as a comparison to any
open-source one.
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On 1/5/2026 4:55 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:35:20 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 1/4/2026 4:32 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 11:15:18 -0500, DFS wrote:

On 12/31/2025 4:31 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:51:30 -0500, DFS wrote:

... in practice, it's so difficult to make those source code
mods and recompile that it's extremely rare.

Even a child can do it <https://linuxfromscratch.org/>.

Go ahead and add a simple string concat(a,b) function - or other
trivial function - to the source code (and menus) of LibreOffice.

Nothing really to do with the Linux kernel, but anyway ...

Tools raA Macros raA Edit Macro raA type in a few lines of BASIC, and
yourCOre away.

Here's one that might be a little easier:

You asked a question, I answered it -- for free.

You didn't answer anything, liar.

I TOLD you to back up your hooey, and you couldn't.

Then I TOLD you a 2nd time to back up your hooey, and again you couldn't.

According to you "even a child can do it". So why can't you add a
function to the LibreOffice source code and menus?

You donrCOt get another free question. If you want to pose a new
source-code hacking challenge, then you will have to offer your own Microsoft-based answer to it as well, as a comparison to any
open-source one.

You didn't respond to either source-code challenge. You wrote a non-answer.

Another Ludicrous Larry Duh fail.

pwned

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