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What can be used to detect impurities at those level? Maybe there is an additional machine needed that can also be built in a garage.

I think this number is overblown. Production useful doesn’t have to mean 1:1.

Running it without all graphics drivers would be fine for server use. Also, not all filesystems need to be ported: basic ones should be enough for start. But not only servers, home routers run Linux kernel…

If every OEM starts contributing their drivers in rust, this could move quickly…

Who was the guy that had a lot of pauses with mmmmmm when talking?

Why would they put effort into changing something which works for them with the risk of breaking things?

The sentiment is similar to climate change deniers. Why would we stop with fossil fuels when they work, people have jobs, etc. And why would we risk breaking the power grid?

And as long as that works for them, they won’t actively change anything.

Wayland on gnome and Ubuntu is already the default. It seems to me you have to actively change the default to x.

It would be interesting to see in which scenario x is better than wayland. The only reason I can think of is an (old) Nvidia card. With new Nvidia’s I guess the statement would otherwise be ‘i will not use it until they fix Wayland’

Depends on the timeline.

X crashed way more for me on kde than Wayland on gnome. ‘Never’ is quite the statement.

Right. And I’m interested if there are some legitimate needs for you to run x until it stops working.

Or is this just a revolt?

Why would someone stay with x even though it’s deprecated, architecturally broken and unmaintainable

Until I cannot run software on X11, I won’t switch over knowingly.

Please explain

Maybe check how long it is already going, so it can give you some confidence. Forgejo is a fork of gitea, which is a fork of gogs.

Also, codeberg, a nonprofit from Germany, is supporting development.

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/

The codebase history of Forgejo and its predecessors predates Codeberg. However, since 2022, Codeberg is backing the development of Forgejo as an umbrella organization.

This looks awesome.

Looks like it could be a very good alternative to mutter and kwin.

Questions:

• what about Vulkan instead GL? Should be more performant and use less battery. Especially if it is meant to also work on mobile.
• is Louvre drawing those window decorations?
• there is some overlap with https://github.com/winft/theseus-ship - any idea for a collaboration there?
• there seems to be a company behind, while I didn’t investigate, are there plans for further development that you would publish, is there a way to influence those plans (suggestions, donations, some other way)
• any plans to make a shell around it?
• it is mentioned that this is a library, but obviously there is a working compositor. Regardless if this is a technology demonstrator, would it be possible to publish a compositor with decent theming and a few distinct layer modes (classic windows with taskbar, windows 8 like, Mac, gnome, ubuntu). I guess many smaller Linux DEs would consider it then…
• how does it compare to kwin/mutter?

I agree with you sentiment here. That’s why I wrote ‘relative terms’ in my comment.

Since Nadela took over, Microsoft did some open thing which benefited community. So, Microsoft opened somewhat.

During the same time, under Pichai, google went the other way: they focus more on monetization and try to control stuff the apple way. Manifest v3? Google also didn’t do anything really worth mentioning in the last 10y in terms of products. Well, except ‘attention’ article. And even this they didn’t believe in and they cannot deliver a decent product. I just tried google advanced Gemini and it’s, to put it politely, shit. Google also had some positive actions like mainlining a lot of stuff in Linux Kernel to more easily upgrade android.

So, while google is closing down and making mistakes, Microsoft is opening a bit up.

If you look the state from the last year and the state now. Microsoft improved. Google went the other way.

Microsoft doesn’t care about open source, they care about the money Cloud Services using open source bring them. I don’t think google cares as well. For reason read this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Probably people think this is a troll or something.

I wrote it because I was surprised, especially since I’m not a fan of microsoft and their policies. Lately, I have the feeling Microsoft is better than Google (relative terms) when it comes to oss.

What is additionally surprising is the breaches of Microsoft services in the last year. There is one every few weeks or so… And then they pick up a backdoor because login took 0.5 instead of 0.1s.

Anyway, his findings are amazing.

Microsoft employee.

This draws parallels with tolerance paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

This was a great talk (video you linked, not the article). Wonder what Linus would say about C being a wrong thing today.

They are having the wrong direction since years. If anything, this is the same direction.

Source?

I’m a beginner as well and I found Alaska Linux user channel on yt a good source for explanations. First videos are a bit outdated… some new tech like Soong was introduced - which is a new, google developed, build system for Android.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnGqG_jyyXmTzdamBpKfeHA

Go to the playlist section. It groups videos per topic, e.g. building a device tree from scratch.

S8 is a not a good choice If I remember correctly, no custom roms exist for that phone. Reasons might be due to exynos of that era…

Can you elaborate on this?

I am looking into doing the same as op and I have no idea what I’m doing.

If you have been running servers since the 90s, can you provide the list of do and donts?