The end is near … fork the end and move on X-org-files

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Is X11 Xserver dying in a classic RedHat way, “pull the plug and let it rot advertising with 90% of tech-media on the pay-roll that X is dead!”

Read the following letter first that was axed by RedHat media then there will be some discussion of what this means

Hello,

I do not think the original post, by Enrico Weigelt, to the xorg-devel
mailinglist made its way thru, tho freebsd-x11 was CC’d.

Anyways, if anyone missed it, here it is:

Hello everybody,

this morning, Redhat employees banned me from the freedesktop.org gitlab
infrastructure – so censored all my work (not just on Xorg). They killed
my account, my git repos, my tickets in Xorg and closed all my merge
requests. And then making fun on social media about it.

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VirtualBox : To whom does it matter whether corporate takeover of FOSS is problematic?

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To you?  To us? To everyone?

Let’s examine the motives and the method used to direct “clients” of corporate software to choices they might had not made to begin with, and the particular late case of VirtualBox

Why virtualbox and not qemu or other foss virtualization?  Because it is simple, easy, click and run.  Because it is offered in most popular distros complete and ready to play with, no “configuration hustle and learning needed”.

virtualbox is built on top of the Qt layer, if I am not mistaken an Oracle Inc. product built on top of Qt corporation’s products.

virtualbox 7.1.0 not only requires qt5-base it requires an internal qt5 functionality based on zstd (a facebook de/compression algorithm that sells under the illusion of Continue reading →

On the discussion about elogind and dbus “hate”, is there reason?

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A vivid discussion has broken out between members of the community, whether q66 considers her/himself one or not is not our prerogative to define, or exclude anyone, about the hardcore stance against FOSS pests such as systemd, elogind, dbus, udev, etc.  So since the topic of discussion is very specific it would have been best if a topic addressed the specific issue, which is irrelevant to whether Chimera Linux belongs on a strict list of distributions without systemd or not.  The criteria about that list are very clear.  The criteria for the “gray” list are not very clear, but nobody really cares about this sloppy list of gray categorized distros, such as void, artix, and devuan. Continue reading →

FSF Richard M. Stallman and the gangsters of the globe

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There is much talk these days about RMS, the founder of FSF returning to the board of FSF and IBM refusing to have him, popular demand, vote, or otherwise.

I could list countless articles here as a detailed research on the matter, but the plethora of them TOTALLY MISS THE ISSUE.

Who decides and how is a decision made?  Is it influence by rational arguments or is it a choke-hold maneuver that even his (RMS’s) dearest of friends can’t escape?

The rational argument by IBM, and their fellow mutually interested global giant corporations, is “YOU DO AS WE SAY, OR NO MONEY COMING TO YOU“. Continue reading →

Sabotage Linux on the “progress” of Linux

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Since we agree with every word and punctuation in this article, we proudly republish it from the Sabotage Linux website:

When “progress” is backwards

Lately I see many developments in the linux FOSS world that sell themselves as progress, but are actually hugely annoying and counter-productive.

Counter-productive to a point where they actually cause major regressions, costs, and as in the case of GTK+3 ruin user experience and the possibility that we’ll ever enjoy “The year of the Linux desktop”.

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Everybody knows that the employer takes all the moral responsibility …

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… the employee is just doing “his job”, and if he doesn’t do it someone else will.  Were you as tired of listening to such excuses when your colleagues were asked whether they were willing to work for the “defense industry” or surveillance agencies?  Everyone has heard this one time or another as an excuse, “I am just doing the job I am paid to do”, but rarely do we hear from those who turned the offer down.  Those who are not rich by any means, and not have high executive positions in larger organizations, and were fully capable to do much more, but not willing to violate their own principles.

WARNING:  This has everything to do with open/free software, linux, init systems, and “choices” people make.

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