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  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.orgtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlWhy is GrapheneOS against GNU?
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    3 months ago

    This is begging the question, there’s nothing confusing or incorrect about what GrapheneOS posted. GNU/FSF is a cult that has always been making their own arbitrary rules for what qualifies and what does not qualify as free software (I am not saying the OSI is any better in that regard, Raymond is a clown).

    I highly suggest reading this mailing list thread where RMS fails to understand copyright law and thinks you can relicense permissive code to GPL, and refuses to call OpenBSD free because the ports system can be used to build a few pieces of non-free software, even though no parts of the ports tree itself are non-free (wait until he hears you can download Windows ISOs off of a web browser).





  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlNiche Distro Users: Why?
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    3 months ago

    Because I’m a software luddite that believe we peaked in design at BSD/Plan9, and most of the “innovations” of enshittified corporate mainstream distros (redhat userland, atomic/immutable environments, “universal” (unless you’re not on linux) package management, containerization of anything and everything) don’t impress me, and more often than not turn me away. I’m not saying software can’t improve, but when it comes to mainstream linux (especially redhat), innovation is always 0 steps forward 40 convoluted leaps back with bonus windows compatibility.

    reliant on upstream sources

    Not relevant to independent distributions, which I’d actually consider more of a problem with popular distros very often being forks (most often of debian).






  • Edit: reasons added in because I can’t read the post title

    • OpenBSD laptop: ffs2, vfat for efi system partition
      • Why: Contrary to popular belief, OpenBSD does not support zfs. The only other filesystem options are msdos (fat family), and ext2fs (mostly for Linux compatibility as far as I can tell, filesystem is experimental and lacks a bunch of features according to the manpage). Makes ffs2 the only sane option.
    • OpenBSD vps: ffs2
      • Why: See above.
    • Pinephone running PmOS: ext2 boot partition, ext4 root partition
      • Why: Defaults.
    • Void Linux VM: ext2
      • Why: I prefer not having journaling on flash memory. This hasn’t bitten me in the ass too hard yet, and even when it does I can usually get around system files being lost with integrity tools. Maybe I’ll dabble with f2fs some day, but I’ll need to read about its features and shortcomings compared to ext2.
    • Alpine Linux VM: ext4
      • Why: Would have installed as ext2 as well, but I forgot
    • Steam Deck: ??? (too lazy to check, 9/10 chance it’s ext4)



  • I’m going to conclude you’re lying and haven’t actually used a webkit browser, because in terms of feature parity with blink and gecko, webkit is pretty good. Maybe some stuff breaks with RTC WASM and other questionable browser capabilities, but for 99% of the web they’re fine. All of the browsers I’ve recommended are regularly updated (except links, superceded by links2), all of them are “modern”. If I wanted to recommend old dead browsers, I would recommend retawq, dillo, elinks or xombrero. Even textmode only browsers are very usable for documentation and reading news and blogs.