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The netpbm image formats go back a long, long, long way.

But they are still absolutely essential. A lot of FOSS
software, and MYSELF, use them all the fucking time.

Netpbm is maintained by a single volunteer, Bryan Henderson,
and the FOSS world owes him a tremendous gratitude.

Thanks, Mr. Henderson!

If any of you freeloading distro lackeys wish to do the same,
his email address can be found at the netpbm site:

<https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/>

Thanks, Mr. Henderson! You represent the soul of FOSS.
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Can't ImageMagick take over for netpbm? Frankly I'm surprised it still compiles. I'm not knocking it - just surprised it's still getting love
after all these years.
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Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

If any of you freeloading distro lackeys wish to do the same,
his email address can be found at the netpbm site:

You insult nearly all users of Linux (or maybe the people making the distributions) while calling for a DDoS Attack on Bryan's Mailbox?

I am not a native speaker, but that sounds like an accomplishment. So
much malice in a single sentence.

May I ask what YOU are doing for the World of Free Software?

We need everybody. We need people making high quality software, and we
need the distributions that make that high quality software easily
accessible for people who cannot roll their own distributions-|.

xkcd 2347 is actually playing the issue down. It's a truckload of such
projects like the one in the lower right corner, and each one that
fails will make the world fail.

Be more careful when you talk to people. And be aware what you're
doing.

Greetings
Marc

-| I havae been working with and on GNU/Linux for a quarter of a
centory and I wouldnt want to roll my own distribution.
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On 2025-08-27, Marc Haber wrote:

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

If any of you freeloading distro lackeys wish to do the same,
his email address can be found at the netpbm site:

You insult nearly all users of Linux (or maybe the people making the distributions) while calling for a DDoS Attack on Bryan's Mailbox?

I am not a native speaker, but that sounds like an accomplishment. So
much malice in a single sentence.

May I ask what YOU are doing for the World of Free Software?

My guess is they're making sure the killfile features of FLOSS
newsreaders are thoroughly tested.
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In <108mjhl$iqm7$3@dont-email.me> Nuno Silva:

[Snip ...]

My guess is they're making sure the killfile features of FLOSS
newsreaders are thoroughly tested.

+1

Old Fartley here, for example, has been in mine for years. Jez sayin' ...
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On 2025-08-26, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

Can't ImageMagick take over for netpbm? Frankly I'm surprised it still compiles. I'm not knocking it - just surprised it's still getting love
after all these years.

On the contrary, simpler code should be easier to compile and to port.
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:11:41 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

On 2025-08-26, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

Can't ImageMagick take over for netpbm? Frankly I'm surprised it still
compiles. I'm not knocking it - just surprised it's still getting love
after all these years.

On the contrary, simpler code should be easier to compile and to port.

But conversely, netpbm has not been updated for modern features like deep pixels.
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On 8/27/25 5:35 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-08-27, Marc Haber wrote:

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

If any of you freeloading distro lackeys wish to do the same,
his email address can be found at the netpbm site:

You insult nearly all users of Linux (or maybe the people making the
distributions) while calling for a DDoS Attack on Bryan's Mailbox?

I am not a native speaker, but that sounds like an accomplishment. So
much malice in a single sentence.

May I ask what YOU are doing for the World of Free Software?

My guess is they're making sure the killfile features of FLOSS
newsreaders are thoroughly tested.

Heh Heh ... yep !

Assholes abound, especially on usenet.

I do remember CompuServe Forums - people were
much more civil.

But I *wanted* usenet nevertheless.

Now Haber will single ME out for "off-topic"
posting :-)

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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:11:41 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

On 2025-08-26, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

Can't ImageMagick take over for netpbm? Frankly I'm surprised it still
compiles. I'm not knocking it - just surprised it's still getting love
after all these years.

netpbm has working documentation unlike Imagemagick

On the contrary, simpler code should be easier to compile and to port.

Besides documentation, I like the pbm formats (pbm for monochrome, pgm
for grayscale, ppm for RGB, pam for more complicated things) as
interchange when writing my own tools to stick in a processing pipeline. Imagemagick, being a monolith, does not cope with user tools well.

But conversely, netpbm has not been updated for modern features like deep pixels.

???

https://deep-pixels.com/

Elijah
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admits the pam formats have not gotten much love
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 01:28:39 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:

netpbm has working documentation unlike Imagemagick

You didnrCOt know about <https://imagemagick.org/>?

But conversely, netpbm has not been updated for modern features like
deep pixels.

More than 8 bits per pixel component.
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On 8/31/25 9:28 PM, Eli the Bearded wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:11:41 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

On 2025-08-26, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

Can't ImageMagick take over for netpbm? Frankly I'm surprised it still >>>> compiles. I'm not knocking it - just surprised it's still getting love >>>> after all these years.

netpbm has working documentation unlike Imagemagick

On the contrary, simpler code should be easier to compile and to port.

Besides documentation, I like the pbm formats (pbm for monochrome, pgm
for grayscale, ppm for RGB, pam for more complicated things) as
interchange when writing my own tools to stick in a processing pipeline. Imagemagick, being a monolith, does not cope with user tools well.

But conversely, netpbm has not been updated for modern features like deep
pixels.

???

https://deep-pixels.com/

Elijah
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admits the pam formats have not gotten much love

DO note, NetPBM is not an application per-se like Gimp,
it's more a group of CL-evokable utilities, more like
ImageMagik. You CAN call these inside most kinds of
programs.

I've writ a number of apps for viewing/storing my security
cams. A number use OS calls to ImageMagik for re-size and
contrast enhancment and such. IM can even deal with RTSP
streams and produce .mpg output. Made one to grab an RTSP
stream, shrink it to very small video (space !) but keep
the audio stream fully intact. UGLY param sets alas, but
you CAN do almost anything.

DID want a low-rez vid remainder for 'reference'.

Sometimes it's easier to use OpenCV ... but there aren't
enough 'canned' calls to deal with every situation.
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