This should’ve been the linux kernel for years, but instead you have a maze of documentation that makes it very difficult to find how to even build the damn thing, let alone test it. Instead you need to go to other websites like linux.com that explain how to compile it and run it, but mention nothing about VMs.
I don’t know how long it’ll take for the mailing list and other archaic stuff to be dropped, but it’s probably actively hindering contributions to the kernel.
I’m not an expert, but this is what I gather
What’s ABI? API compatible with linux kernel?
Application Binary Interface is the equivalent of an API but at binary level. An API defines for example the functions with their parameters, types, order, and output. An ABI defines how functions are called, how parameters are passed, how output is pass and retrieved, and so on but at a binary level.
An example of an ABI would be for example the Linux Standard Base which makes compiled binaries compatible with linux (how binaries are constructed, where to find data like constants, where to find instructions, and so on). The internal ABI is also important for example how drivers communicate with the kernel.
And what’s TCB?
That, I don’t know, unfortunately :/ We need a tech glossary. If I had to guess, it’s the Trusted Computing Base?
Thank you for the insight! It makes me hopeful about linux’s position in India. Hopefully an increase of prosperity, meaning better hardware, won’t mean an increase of windows or mac users.
Wouldn’t hurt to create the ticket, maybe even it share it here. People who support it can simply put a thumbs up.
Are you hopeful for the future of Linux in India? It’s a large country with lots of people. I don’t know if Linux is “just” a regional thing in India or if it’s spreading across the entire country.
And, do you know what kind of status / reputation it has in India or the people know you? In my small circle, people only know of it through me. People outside of it either don’t know of it or think it’s for geeks / unusable to them.
You could create an issue to address it. I’m not sure why they consider MPL to be a good license for the project. Of course somebody could contact the linux rust contributors and suggest they create another project with GPLv3 or even AGPL.
I’m honestly surprised. Germany has been the home of OpenSuse for a decade or so now, has had Christian “democrats” torpedoing any effort to get Linux into government (Munich) and yet, now it’s at 5.25%? What’s going on?
India?
People will never learn, will they? You give them AP and they go for the Jack Dorsey clone. Amazing
Did M$ force more users to install windows 11 or something? What’s going on?
Btw, can somebody try and fit that curve to project when it hits 20% or something? That looks like an exponential function.
People figuratively told me to shut up about the Linux Foundation’s less than meager funding of the linux kernel (~2%), but this is exactly what happens because of it. It’s stuck in the 90s because a few oldies earned well enough to be able to dedicate their time to it. Young blood doesn’t have time nor the funds to fight an uphill battle against the greybeards.
Imagine if the situation were reversed and the Linux Foundation spent 98% of its 268M on the Linux Kernel. Imagine the amount of developers that would be fighting to get an internship there and make a career as a kernel dev/maintainer/technical writer/manager/whatever… Rust, better hardware support, better code coverage, modern contribution methods (not a damn mailing list), CI/CD, automated testing, better fuzzing, bounties, and so much more would be possible. Instead they spent…20% or something on AI.
KDE needs to copy what Thunderbird did. Thunderbird marketed the crap out of their product and were present on all social media, posted frequent updates, made videos about their new features, and are in general very loud about it. KDE has some random devs posting infrequent updates and aren’t even recogniseable as belonging to the foundation.
I donate, but I can see how many people have no clue they are even using KDE nor how to donate to it.
@anzo@programming.dev is correct, it’s the order you connected them in (see tldp). Use UUIDs or devices lables for consistency or connect them in the order you want.
Old timers resisting rust in the kernel because it’s not what they know… Understandable, but to the detriment of the kernel and its community.
This is why the Linux Foundation investing just 2% of its influx on the kernel is a problem. The kernel dev community could be brimming with new blood. Instead, the old guard has to keep the lights on because the aren’t enough successors.
Why did they name the package format linglong? Does it have a specific meaning in Chinese? Is is a pun?
Actual Linux Market Share could be Higher
Steam doesn’t agree. It’s a 2% there. I don’t know which site would report more than 5% market share for linux.
I thought they were blocked everywhere. What’s going on? Bunch of bots or something?
Wayland might be the future, it still seems to have a lot of work necessary to completely replace X11. Screen capture sure doesn’t have a good UX with like 3 popups to confirm that I want to share something.
Others have said it, AMD. Intel is weak and NVIDIA is a headache.
Lemmy should have the option to defederate from instances depending on automated criteria. Sign ups without admin checks are a great attribute to use for defederation, because it leads to such abuse. I’ve finally blocked most communities and instances that have news about US politics and have a clean feed, but for newcomers, that shit is everywhere.
Anti Commercial-AI license