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  • I come from Debian stable so…

    I’m currently ending the Guix manual. I want to add freetube and N64recompiled packages. Didn’t know it’s difficult to get patches or packages update to mainstream.

    It’s a bit funny that the records that Guix uses are not the baseline records of the Guile api but modified ones. And the documentation in some low-level regards is scarce.

    But using Guix opens up endless options and more importantly it helps you manage and learn how to setup operating systems.


  • Guix System. The way that this distro keeps track of changes of the distro itself. The concept of having a store where everything you build is stored there with write protection. The fact that you can configure not only the system but every home environment to every detail but without having to deal with various configuration files that you keep track of it.

    The fact that all builds are bit by bit reproducible. The extensibility you have in your system.

    It’s the first distro I feel that nothing in your own OS instance is tied to any distro decisions.

    The fact that you can have multiple versions of the same library without breaking the system.

    It has a lot of things that I never thought it could be possible with a distro without going crazy about creating a very messy configuration.







  • Damn who imagined that gaming would be the topic that made the FOSS OSes relevant. I don’t agree on all that steam does but, they really nail it with the Steam deck and Steam Os.

    A lot of people have steam deck and it helps realize that GNU/Linux is an amazing OS.

    On the other hand Microsoft and Apple are doing their best to try to give more reasons to switch.



  • BSD licence allowed to work with the AT&T licence which at the end generated all the drama. Unix wars.

    Again BSD is great if you don’t care about what will happen with your code.

    Yeah the Android point doesn’t have any sense, that’s right.

    Apple shares the code of the parts they want. Since it’s not a copyleft licence, then they can still ship you a version of Darwin + privative code as your macOs without sharing the entire code. So you end running kind of Frankenstein program with parts you don’t know what they do.

    AOSP is not a great licence because it allows Google benefit from contributions, but then it has tons of privative software on top. So basically contributing to the AOSP means that you improve the code that later it’s used in combination with privative one.

    My point is that libre source code should enforce that derivations of it stay libre. Otherwise you are working for free for companies that don’t care about the users.

    Hey for companies is a good point. The best system for them is open source. It makes sense for them to use it. And open source is much better than just privative.

    From the point of view of the individual user and developer is not that great. It kind of hooks you in because it has open source parts, but you are probably unaware of all the closed source stuff that runs in combination with it.

    I get the open source point, but I don’t find it fair at the long term for the individual developer and user.

    Over the years I’ve become convinced that the BSD license is great for code you don’t care about. I’ll use it myself. If there’s a library routine that I just want to say ‘hey, this is useful to anybody and I’m not going to maintain this,’ I’ll put it under the BSD license.

    Linus Torvals at LinuxCon 2016


  • GNU Hurd didn’t take a good path of development following MACH design. But I still think GNU Hurd is the kernel of the future. Probably the Next generation Hurd. Just because GNU MACH and Hurd present very convoluted designs.

    A kernel that performs most of their activities in user space and that it is truly modular looks very promising for the kind of systems we have nowadays and in the future.

    Someone has to make the change, or we will stagnate in cumbersome and up featured systems.


  • Clang and the LLVM with BSD like licences so we can get the 80’s suing experience of UNIX yet again.

    It’s impressive how many people in the FOSS community hate GNU. Even to the point of creating OSes without GNU in it. Working for free for companies just to get their contributions stolen or expunged.

    Apple loves Open Source, they can stole it as they like, like they did with Darwin (a derivation of XNU). Everything is open until we no longer want to, and you don’t have any right to desist such actions. This sounds like a dream for them.

    Google loves Open Source, they can build an spyware, ad vending machine, DRM platform that is hosted in almost any IOT machine. This is Android.

    The community has to realize that if you care about your software you have to ENFORCE the freedom of it.

    The are entire projects just to liberate android from google. That’s is all fault of the open source licence.

    There are quite a lot of projects which exist to liberate software projects that have been taken hostage. This is no sense.

    Most of the IOT devices are presenting paywall features thanks to Android: cars, fridges, TVs, etc. What is next?