Isn't that a Michael Bay film?
gnuplusmatt
joined 2 years ago
The fact that Waterfox is owned by Advertising Company System1, doesn't bother you?
in the case of Android, it comes down to the proprietary driver modules that are compiled for certain kernel versions. As newer versions of android are released with newer kernels, the closed source modules fall out of step. If the drivers for these components were open source anyone could recompile them for any Linux kernel. It's usually up to the device manufacturer working with the likes of the chip makers to release newer module versions for their hardware. OEMs dont want to support their hardware beyond few years, so you'll hopefully buy a new phone.
The postmarketOS community (and some of the android community) works pretty hard trying to bring mainline kernel support to devices, which enables them to run generic Linux kernels, or conceivably newer versions of android than the OEM has released. But this involves reverse engineering support for this hardware.
the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output
Its not like they're blocking all contributions, if it was more than niche, they wouldnt ignore the needs of other big players. I'm not fully across it, but the BSDs still make more use of xorg and maintain their own trees IIRC.
I really only saw headlines about Xlibre, hadnt followed up on it
The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.
I agree Gnome 3+ is bad, but we do need modern components and honestly when the next biggest player in these things in Canonical with there NIH / throw it over the fence and like it attitude, I know which I'd prefer. Especially when these components truly are upstream projects, and they do indeed take community contributions.
almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to.
Yeah the xorg thing is shit for those that feel they still need it, but no one else really had the resources to maintain it. Its critical infrstructure, they can't just hand it off until they're done with it (RH10). Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it'll end up like KwinFT.
combine this with suicide linux, if the LLM gives back shit (which it will) destruction is assured
I refuse to use Fedora (because it’s basically their testing bed)
interesting take
RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development
I'm interested in any examples you can provide of this
good to know next time I am waiting at my local bus stop
Free WiFi only if you are a Telstra customer for your home broadband
as a non-american, no one really wants to go there at the moment anyway