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Same, here, but I think also my thinkpad is not powerful enough for guix (Intel core duo).

Ubuntu is fine. When you get your PC, you can see for yourself and decide. If Ubuntu just works for you, stick with it, if it is a bad experience, try another GNU/Linux distro. Be aware though that the back end of the appstore in Ubuntu is proprietary/closed-source/nonfree/bad.

systemd vs sysv

There is no systemd vs sysv war. It is systemd suck or systemd fine.

Yes, but does anyone actually use LGPL still?

That does not matter. I think glibc uses it, not sure.

Anyway that is a different license and not really GPL anymore, as it does not force anything.

It forces people to give back to LGPL code. It is a weak copy left. I do not know what you mean by being GPL.

If they were LGPL from the start, yes, that probably would solve it.

That is my point.

Do you know about the LGPL license? I think it allows you to statically link proprietary code, and the LGPL code remains open while the closed code remains closed. Modified and distributed lgpl still remain under the LGPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License

The corporate adoption on uutils already started.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/core-utils/overview

Windows is now using uutils for their coreutils. I want to see if Microsoft gives back anything to the project with that permissive license. Also, aren’t canonical and Microsoft partners or something? I saw the Ubuntu wsl news.

Check this out. The Hurd is just a collection of translators, which are kinda like fuse. https://gitlab.com/AlmuHS/hurd-translator-in-rust

The GNU Hurd. Keep laughing, it will get there.

Edit: instead of outright promoting the GNU Hurd, I will give my reasons.

1. The architecture of the Hurd is very scalable compared to other kernels. It does not need much rewriting to adapt to modern technology. Rewriting the Hurd in rust is much easier than other kernels.

2. It is a GNU project so if it does succeed, we can spread the Free software philosophy to others. It also means that corpo’s cannot influence it.

3. It is GPLv2 or later, so that is nice to have.

4. It holds all the benefits of a microkernel.

There is probably more, but they are not as important to me personally.

Is it still considered strong copyleft if it is similar to the GPL then?

Never use tor with a VPN because it can make you easier to identify on the tor network.

Edit: https://support.torproject.org/tor-browser/general/vpn-with-tor/

Also, it is only fine to use a VPN with tor if you know what you are doing.

Is it me, or is it kinda of odd that nixOS did not go full on nix with the init system? For example, setting up service with nix. Obviously systemd is fine for for me (please do not flame me systemd haters), but I wonder if the nix team thought of this idea.

Just want to let you know from my canoebooted laptop that I run a 100% “free as in freedom” OS (trisquel GNU/Linux). Also you have convinced me about striving for a goal instead of doing it perfectly, which is not possible. Well said.

NetBSD already runs a lot of the satellites out there.

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I have also heard of solaris, but never had a clue what it was.

I am pretty sure that is the enterprise OS owned by Oracle. It is closed source.

All I want is an os I can trust, that is logical, works, and stays out of my way.

NetBSD or openBSD is your best bet. You will have to install the desktop environment yourself though, unless you like their cwm. FreeBSD is the most popular BSD, but they are using AI to find security vulnerabilities.

Time to look around again I guess, I’ve never looked into BSD, Hurd, Solaris…

The GNU Hurd is probably not going to be for you unless you have Ethernet and an old thinkpad or dell laptop. In the mailing list, I know the main devs are usually against ai contributions, although I am unaware if they have a policy.

I would recommend using netBSD because the devs have a clear stance on no rust and no llm usage. There is also openBSD which has the best code quality of the three BSD’s, and I think had 2 vulnerabilities in a decade.

I disagree. For one, it’s unenforceable, just like outright banning it.

Agreed. I an aware a lot of people contributed to the Linux kernel, without disclosing they used ai.

Good code always was and should always be one where a human is fully responsible for it; if you decide to vibecode and happens to end up with perfect code, good; if you write it fully yourself but it’s crap it doesn’t absolve you that you didn’t use AI…

Yeah. I do not blame the ai for writing the code, but rather the person to accept and push that code even if they know it is crap.

Like GNU Guix!

I respectfully disagree. XFCE having the same experience is its main appeal.

I agree, and that is why I like xfce. I just would not really notice a difference if the project died or if it kept being developed. It is the same thing with lightdm. Until now, no one was maintaining lightdm. I did not even realize the project was rotting, and kept using it eventhough it was unmaintained since Ubuntu switched to GDM. In addition, I am still using Xorg eventhough it is dead, and it works fine.

I am aware that someone is implementing wayland in xfce, but that does not change the UX of xfce. I probably will not feel a difference in using wayland xfce compared to X11 xfce.