Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

Farley Flud <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:52:47 +0000
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:45:58 -0400, c186282 wrote:


>
>> I hate all those corporate interests that have decreed that all wheels 
>> will be round and shod with black rubber.
>> How dare they!
> 
>    Damned straight ! Square wheels would
>    be MUCH more fun !!! :-)
>

Obviously, you are as limited in mathematics as you are in GNU/Linux.

It is possible to construct, if only theoretically, any wheel shape
and the corresponding road to match. (Similar gear meshing is also
possible but that is another topic.)

Here is but one of many web pages:

<https://cage.ugent.be/~hs/wheels/wheels.html>


I plan on soon publishing methods for doing this with GNU/Linux
tools on my web site.





-- 
Gentoo/LFS: Is there any-fucking-thing else?