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2·2 days agoI was going to say you are wrong about semver but you are correct that it should simply not be version 1 yet.
To quote semver.org: “Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.”
If they had just done that, their disclaimer would be implied. Once it is 1.0, breaking changes require a major version change. That seems like reasonable policy to me.
That said, I upgraded without issue.
The “breaking change” did not break anything for me. As noted, you have to have a specific and non-default configuration for their to be a problem.
For what it is worth, I upgraded without changing anything and it worked perfectly.
We will not know for sure until 6.17 as that is when Linus said he expected to “part ways” :(
Regardless of your stance on GPL or not, I find the firmware stance very strange.
If software is made available to you, you must reject it. But as long as the hardware runs it behind closed doors, you can use it.
The CPU microcode situation is a good example. You can run your CPU, having no idea what it is doing or how it works. No problem. But if they ship an update to fix a bug, you cannot apply that update unless it is open source. The “free” choice is to run known vulnerabilities on top of the black box. And the in-chip behaviour is complex enough that Intel chips included a whole UNIX-like operating system in them (Minix) and people did not even realize it. The same is true for every chip in your system. Crazy.
If you are not going to demand open hardware, there is no point in being so absolutist about the firmware. That is even if you want to be truly hard core about the software running on top.
1·3 days agoWhat they are aiming for (not agreeing, just explaining) is a language that you can use to ask AI to do things for you.
The idea is that you do not have to do the nuts and bolts programming (the AI will do that) but at the same time you have more deterministic control over what the AI does.
So “higher level” than our highest level languages now.
They need to call it COBOL. A language regular business people can use!
I also have a “current” kernel and an LTS one. If current ever has an issue, I just reboot into LTS.
It has saved me on Arch at least once.
I have Linux running on 6 different MacBooks (2009 - 2021). They were all EndeavourOS at first though some are Chimera Linux now.
They run great. Even the 2009 really.
Was she tricked? I would think the jig would be up the second she clicked on something.
You can have a lot of fun with it. I assure you. And you can still command the cloud and much of the web (including LLMs) from such a machine.
With a text-mode editor, you can do a fair bit of programming. You could teach yourself Docker.
There are lots of entertaining games that would run on that machine.
If this was the only machine you had access to, you would be amazed at what it could do. We are spoiled.
That said, I agree that one overly heavy JavaScript web page could bring it to a crawl. Both things are true.
There are still a lot of 32 bit distros based off Debian (like Q4OS mentioned above). Debian no longer supports Pentium though. If you need that, go for Adelie Linux.
You totally beat me to it. This was going to be my recommendation.
You may even choose the 32 version which will be dramatically more memory efficient. Not everything is available but probably everything you need.
It is possible that hardware from 2010 requires a 32 bit OS anyway. 64 bit only appeared a couple of years before and low end systems could still be 32 bit.
It is more like creating a Linux kernel deigned to run only WINE.
Fork server - eliminates the need to restart and reduces memory per new process
If it starts with a K, it is probably KDE
Sounds like you nailed if
Fedora maintains its own Flatpak repo that competes with Flathub. This is about merging them.
What they did was bad but I am glad the Flatpak kept working.
Awesome. Where?