Following the R4L debacle “you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line”, another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Hellwig specifically says “where this cancer is a cross-language codebase”. He’s not wrong. I don’t know how you transition languages, but my god, if you want to lose maintainers, make it impossible to maintain because of language incompatibilties. A few people from a downstream project like Asahi or an almost defunct driver like Nouveau would be the least of your worries if you were Linus.

    • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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      21 days ago

      A few people from a downstream project like Asahi or an almost defunct driver like Nouveau

      I’m not sure why you think Asahi is a minor player in the linux community when they’re responsible in the entirety for porting Linux to the Arm-based Mac M1+ series, or why you think Nouveau is defunct.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        21 days ago

        If a single percent of regular Linux users use either of those on a daily basis, I’ll eat a bug. And desktop Linux isn’t even a significant amount of Linux use in general. So why would the kernel developers give the slightest shit about either of them?

        • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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          21 days ago

          Nouveau is important because Nouveau is the default driver in Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, and ever other distro.

          Linux distributions can’t easily distribute the proprietary nvidia drivers or the slightly less proprietary nvidia-open drivers so they depend on nouveau as the default nvidia driver. When you install a distro it usually has to use the nouveau drivers before downloading the proprietary blobs from Nvidia.

          Nouveau is the only reason anyone can use Linux on an Nvidia card long enough to install the other drivers.

          It’s also actively maintained, receiving updates that get upstreamed almost daily.

          I’m not sure what about those things says “defunct”.

          And the rust developments in Asahi for the M1+ series of CPUs don’t just benefit Mac but all the ARM CPUs as well.