if linux goes slop we will so regret having put all of our eggs in the same basket lol
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the ideology of foss "defragmentation" (same stuff used to advocate for putting systemd everywhere btw) is just actively harmful
"fragmentation" is *needed* for ecosystems to be sustainable even when things go wrong
"fragmentation" is *needed* for ecosystems to be sustainable even when things go wrong
🔜fosdem
@lizzy And it feels so weird as someone which used to daily drive OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana, the destruction Oracle caused back then is probably by far the biggest reason I care about portability and am against implementation monoculture.
(Other reason against monoculture being security/resiliency, different baskets are unlikely to have the same flaws, something I apply for storage as well, never all the same brand)
(Other reason against monoculture being security/resiliency, different baskets are unlikely to have the same flaws, something I apply for storage as well, never all the same brand)
@SuperDicq Plan 9 is a research OS from the 90s that does not support GPUs or modern web browsers; GNU Hurd only just recently got 64 bit cpu support; Zircon is an embedded kernel by a slop megacorp famous for dropping projects.
Of these, only FreeBSD is a serious alternative, and perhaps Illumos but I don't know much about it.
Of these, only FreeBSD is a serious alternative, and perhaps Illumos but I don't know much about it.
@SuperDicq that was more than 35 years ago, we're not in this age anymore. the landscape had already changed drastically enough just 10 years after linux was started for experts to consider OS dev a dead field https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html
this was 25 years ago and the situation has only gotten worse.
there is an insane amount of standards and hardware an operating system needs to support to be realistically viable, and the reason that linux has these things is because it started at an age where the field was simply different and then was developed continuously with huge amounts of enterprise and hobby support for decades into what it is today.
no, this is not something a competent hacker can pull out of their ass anymore.
this was 25 years ago and the situation has only gotten worse.
there is an insane amount of standards and hardware an operating system needs to support to be realistically viable, and the reason that linux has these things is because it started at an age where the field was simply different and then was developed continuously with huge amounts of enterprise and hobby support for decades into what it is today.
no, this is not something a competent hacker can pull out of their ass anymore.
@SuperDicq @lizzy no it doesn't, it was developed by its creator in vmware precisely because the only machine it was tested on was his desktop, and his desktop broke.
I have run it on a couple laptops successfully but it's not guaranteed to run anywhere but vmware
I have run it on a couple laptops successfully but it's not guaranteed to run anywhere but vmware
@SuperDicq @lizzy I...actually cannot argue against that.
@dps910 @SuperDicq @lizzy this is compliant with the license (public domain) but is expressly against the wishes of God
@dps910 @SuperDicq @lizzy this is compliant with the license (public domain) but is expressly against the wishes of God
@SuperDicq @lizzy i am not sure if it’s merged yet, but i looked at some of the replies and they weren’t against it