Agreed.
What is even stranger, but great, is that they plan to release a 26.04 LTS in 4 months.
That will be the start of the real next generation for Pop!OS. We should get a real sense of where System76 wants to go with COSMIC then. Today is all about getting a minimally viable system into production so people can start to use it. Making 24.04 an LTS means that people do not have to hold off until next year.
Agreed. Also, how dense do you have to be to go on for paragraphs about fragmentation and then recommend a display server used by zero point zero one percent of Linux desktops.
I am just happy to learn that Bick’s is no longer Canadian.
They lost my business completely with the threat that they would buy fewer Canadian cucumbers and lids from Canada. They sell only in Canada. Canadians will eat just as many pickles, just from other companies, and those companies will buy just as many cucumbers from Canadian farmers as Bick’s did.
That a brand that sells only in Canada would talk this way is atrocious.
Screw them completely. Never buying a jar of Bick’s again.
I am not even truly Canadian first (though I always have been a little). For me, what really matters now is USA last.
Are Co-ops not already a thing? How is this different?
He might honestly be too stupid to believe it is a real problem.
He openly trolled Canadians not long ago by showing that Canadian travel numbers were up in 2024. “Nice boycott” he laughed.
Of course, the numbers in 2024 show what he has to lose, not what he is going to get. 2025 numbers are not going to look as good (and certainly do not already).
As unfortunate as this whole episode has been, it is great to have this clarity from Linus. It feels like quite a straight-forward guideline to apply to future situations. Hopefully it will really cut down on the noise and drama between the pro-Rust and anti-Rust camps in the kernel.
As long as Linus stays consistent with the stance he outlined here, things should go well.
Like Kavanah?
Is it that people don’t mind sounding like morons in public or that they think everybody else is stupid enough to fall for their nonsense? I always wonder when I read something like this.
This “skills issue” thing just sounds so stupid in my ears. I am sick of reading it.
So, I am choosing a language that I hope will ensure fast, secure, and sophisticated code for my project. It has to do this for code I write, my team writes, and all future maintainers and contributors will write as well. If I choose a language that makes it easy to write unstable, fragile, and insecure code then “the skills issue” applies more to my lack of capability as an architect than it does the coders that come after me.
Stop saying, “well ya, it is super easy to make these mistakes in this language but that would never happen if you are as awesome as I am” and thinking that sounds like an intelligent argument for your language choice. There are better options. Consider them.
Wait. It is MIT licensed now? Ok. Now I am totally excited. I will be starting a project based on this immediately.
I used to love Manjaro. It looks gorgeous ( to my eye ). Sadly, I now see it as a bit of a low-quality mess with governance issues. Manjaro broke my system more than once. Although I did not believe it when I used Manjaro, getting off of it has shown me that I regularly had AUR compatibility problems as well.
These days, I would recommend EndevourOS over Manjaro. It is just as easy in practice, I have found it to be far more stable. Once installed, EndevourOS is 99.8% the same as a well configured vanilla Arch. It uses the Arch package repositories natively.
Even more than Manjaro, I used to love Pamac and graphical package management. Now I think Pamac is garbage. It has caused so many problems for me. I mostly use yay to manage packages now. A really great middle ground between GUI package management and yay or pacman is pacseek. You have to use yay to install it but, for the times I may have missed Pamac, it has been awesome.
Canada needs to increase readiness at its southern border. Focus on where the threat is.