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[GI_Jack]

I mean what else are they going to use? only other option is probably QNX, but linux is open source, so they can modify the source code for their niche...

[GI_Jack]

Linux has hands down best graphics/compute stack, period.

It just doesn't have the prosumer tools, and is not easy to work with like Macs....

[GI_Jack]

Wireless AC support...when?

edit: Yes this matters for pfSense reasons, and there really isn't anything to replace pfSense in the space its...

[GI_Jack]

i686 support should be dropped from mainline linux distros.

If there is to be a 32-bit Intel port on modern distros, it should be march pentium4....

[GI_Jack]

My mouth is on the floor right now. I'm not sure which is worse, comparing literal murder to using a programming language you don't like, or comparing...

[GI_Jack]

Impossible. Software development is inherently political. As much as developing Free Open Source Software is a pretty damn big political statement on...

[GI_Jack]

yes it has. ext4 has recieved active development and still does, gets new features. It has more features than reiser, and performs better....

[GI_Jack]

The only use case is recovering data off old reiser partitions from machines of decades past. This might be needed, as the rieser was the default for...

[GI_Jack]

You know what Linux could use right now?

yet another file system.

Said no one ever. There are enough production grade FSs in...

[GI_Jack]

You mean it'd be a perfect opportunity for Arch to admit that downstream distros are a thing and to work with them.

Mantra is "If you...

[GI_Jack]

I am going to guess, that they simply aren't just doing 64-bit registers, but rather targeting the newer Arm v8 arch which just happens to be 64-bit,...

[GI_Jack]

Dangerous in its own right. While I think its rad coreboot exists, I'd hate to really call it production quality on third party hardware.

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[GI_Jack]

The one industrial plan that depends on linux, and some long forgotten proprietary binary, from a company that long ceased operations, with source code...

[GI_Jack]

Until there is, these changes should not be mainlined. Simply put, does not contribute anything any of us need or want, and does nothing but encouraging...

[GI_Jack]

I am going to guess. Linux started out as a grad-student project in 1989, and was kinda flaky and missing a lot of features, especially hardware support...