Rudra Saraswat, who’s been at the center of development since the remix’s early days, no longer has time to maintain the project due to university studies.

Reminder: The entire effort relied on a 12 year old kid only three years ago, so of course at some point he has actual responsibilities: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu_projects/

How about you implement it?

No, absolutely not. Apple is anti Linux. Giving them money over manufacturers with actual Linux support is the completely wrong. AMD is the way to go.

coreutils is, well, important. It’s fine to bring new software in, but you have to test it. And they haven’t tested enough.

They abolished alpha and beta versions because Canonical’s QA is so good, they don’t need them any longer…

25.10 is an interim release specifically there for testing new things.

You’re confusing alpha and beta versions with an actual release. A release without long term support is still a release.

the only functionality I’ve ever found missing is USB-C video out

Pretty basic feature to miss.

I hope whoever is managing this does it better than Ubuntu’s rust debacle

Honestly: Why? Apple M processor platform support relies completely on reverse engineering. It’s not a production-ready platform despite what some people keep shouting in forums. Even old M1 and M2 Macs can only reboot running Linux since this summer: https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/linux-6-17-will-be-able-to-reboot-silicon-macs/

A Rust rewrite of the bootloader is the least of their construction sites.

I forgot that systemd had been allowed to take over /tmp and /run.

According to Debian everyone is allowed to take over /run

Why on earth would the permissions on /var/lock be something for systemd to decide?

Because – as LWN explains – there no longer is an overarching standards body who makes the decision, so anybody can make up their own.

Debian’s continued use of UUCP-style locking does seem to be more than a little bit dated. The FHS 3.0 is clearly reaching the end of its useful life, if not actually expired.

Seems like Debian is more the outlier here.

Flatpak support broken, shovelware pile Snap Store pushed down users’ throats, and now this.

Anyone who thinks that Ubuntu is the best choice for new Linux users is fundamentally wrong.

Properly attributed generated lines are easier to remove should courts declare them illegal.

What would projects with undeclared AI code do? Shut everything down? Revert everything until the commit before ChatGPT launched? Just say yolo and go on?

Much of distribution development is writing menial scripts and SPEC files. It’s tedious work with little creativity. The last SPEC file for an RPM package I wrote from scratch was years ago but it was so tedious work. The Arch maintainers even argue that their PKGBUILD files are so simple, they don’t pass the so-called threshold of originality and therefore are public domain anyway.

Much can be (and probably already is) automated. Compilation directives like CMake files already contain all the info needed to generate a workable if a bit bare bones SPEC file. I’d say an LLM might even be overkill for what a script could also achieve. The result is public domain anyway.

I guess it’s time to go shopping for a new distro :(

If you think that undisclosed AI contributions aren’t happening everywhere, you’re delusional.

The Fedora hate is strong with this one.

The completely insane claim was “The only infrastructure I’m using is the bit of Javascript and HTML”, meaning one could just save the page and run it fully locally.

This is of course BS.

You claimed that I was uploading and batch-processing images on the developers’ infrastructure.

“Um, achtually I crop images only locally and loading up Photopea in the first place doesn’t count towards freeloading other people’s work.🤓”

there are definitely problems.

Of course there are but the claim was that Lichtmetzger only needs to crop a bunch of images and Gimp is 100% capable of that and I say that as someone who can’t stand Gimp any longer and moved to Krita and others.

Keep trolling

At least I’m not playing the victim when actually freeloading other people’s work and resources.

which is what woelkchen doesn’t seem to grasp

*whoosh*

I fully grasp it, I was just pointing out how insane your claim is that you don’t use their server resources by making an equally insane counter point.

That’s why all of the accusations that I’m freeloading and straining the developers’ server from batch-processing images are unfunded.

Yes, exactly this insane claim.

Today I’ve learned that cropping five images in a row is “commercial-grade”. Sure…

Today I’ve learned that you cannot use Krita to crop manually because you’re cropping waaay to many images and absolutely need batch processing but you also cannot self-host anything because “it’s only 5 images, man”.

Self-hosting is a good idea, though, if I can find some useful software in that field.

• *types bulk image crop site:github.com into search engine*
• *finds a bunch*

Huh…

I’m on Tumbleweed myself, just a user and I’m happy here.

Yes, it’s fantastic. Highly underrated. I’ve installed Slowroll on my Steam Deck’s Distrobox yesterday. Interested to check out this conservative variant for a while.