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.
The BlackBerry Z30 is still my favourite phone. I like it a lot more than the iPhone 15 Pro I am using now.
Why? If they all had a turn and none of them fixed it, why focus the blame? Sounds like a shared responsibility.
If you are building apps from source, consider creating an actual Chimera Linux apk. It is surprisingly easy. I like keeping everything under the control of the package manager.
That is assuming you are a Chimera Linux user of course.
I also use Chimera!
As everybody else is saying, Distrobox is the way to go and it is already in the repos (using Podman). It works amazingly. I setup an Arch Distrobox so now I have Chimera + the AUR which is just perfection for me. I still use native Chimera when possible and have created quite a few of my own packages. Sometimes I use Distrobox just to check something out and then create a native package later when I have time.
doas apk add distrobox
distrobox create —name arch —image docker.io/library/archlinux:latest
distrobox enter arch
That is all you have to do (though you have to add yay or paru inside Arch to use the AUR). You will be in an Arch console and have access to all Arch software.
Distrobox create seems a bit slow setting up overlayfs for some reason but it runs stellar after the first time.
If you really prefer Void…
dostrobox create —name void —image ghcr.io/void-linux/void-glibc-full:latest
Flatpak works as well if that is your thing (as you say). prefer Distrobox.
I realized just yesterday that Chimera comes with Broadcom WiFi drivers right in the kernel (no DKMS or CKMS required). Just download firmware with b43-cutter (also included). So I have dropped Chimera on a couple older MacBooks. I put it on an old 2009 MacBook Pro yesterday and 100% of the hardware is supported (Ethernet, WiFi, Camera, Audio, brightness and volume controls, sleep, everything ). I did a video meeting on it just for fun and nobody even noticed (the camera sucks in low light but that is hardware). Honestly, I cannot believe how well it runs. For basic office stuff, you would never know (unless you looked at CPU utilization—which will be high!).
Chimera Linux is still in beta but it already feels rock solid. I am so impressed with it as a distro. And the only downside is totally mitigated by Distrobox.
Enjoy!
[edit: I never answers “why” I guess. Distrobox uses Podman so it is amazingly light on resources. The app will run right on the Chimera kernel. What Distrobox adds is persistence and tight integration. By persistence I mean that changes you make in the Distrobox (like installing software) will be there the next time you enter. By integration, I mean that you see your normal /home and have direct access to hardware. It does not even feel like your app is in a container. GUI apps “just work” out-of-the-box. Type the name of a GUI app and it pops up in your native Wayland session. It is even possible to create desktop links so individual apps can be started point and click without having to go into the terminal. It is like magic.]
Pretty sure the mic does not work if you need to have video meetings.
The actual payment system stops payments automatically at age 115 and requires manual verification to restart. The database that is being reported is not even a report of who is getting paid.
This is just dramatic, public evidence of the arrogance and incompetence of DOGE from down to his racist younglings.
For a while, I thought they would at least be good at technology. This episode shows that even that is not true.
How he chose this elite group of chuckleheads is an eyebrow raiser. Other than racism, they seem to have no credentials at all. I mean, on brand for this administration I guess.
Alpha vs beta is usually about feature completion. I am quite happy they have more ambition in terms of what features they want to ship.
Progress has been steady and each alpha has delivered a solid list of improvements. This looks like a good one, especially the memory usage.
I have been using it for months. Looking forward to this update as it has been a bit memory heavy.
Overall, it has been working great for me. There have been bugs though, especially with multi-monitor. Again, looking forward to trying out this update.
There is still room to go on the polish front I would say. And the built-in apps are still a bit basic. It all depends on your tolerance.
It is not about it being public. He just wants it on the mailing list.
The people subscribed to the mailing list are all people involved in or specifically interested in kernel development. The hope is that the conversations there will be less technical and less political. What he does not want is a bunch of social or political pressure from drive by opinion holders on social media (like us).
It is fine for us to be discussing there discussion here. But he wants the discussion to be had “there”.
He understands Rust and claims to like it. He simply disagrees with the decision to have a mixed language kernel and is trying to unilaterally stop it from happening.
Sounds like we agree. The NDP should go hard against the conservatives, and can of course talk up their own game. I think they should tread very carefully though attacking the Libs as they could do just enough damage to hand the election to the conservatives.