The Lunduke Journal

Say hello to The Lunduke Computer Operating System. - No Age or ID Verification. - No AI. - No Online Accounts. - No Weird Politics. - No Systemd. - No Forced Rust Clones. Ships with XLibre & Brave Origin out of the box, built on top of the excellent Devuan Linux. This is a very early release (0.1) for those looking to kick the tires and see where it's going. But, even though it's a 0.1 testing release, it's usable thanks to the excellent Devuan base. Been running this on my main laptop for a while now. github.com/BryanLunduke/L…

Rust is the Paper Straw of Computers It solves a problem nobody had and makes everything worse. And those in power demand that you use it.

NeXTStep, Desqview/X, & TRS-80 Model 100 Walls! The Lunduke Journal now has close to 20 retro computer themed walls, filled with the names of subscribers. And that number is growing fast. lunduke.locals.com/post/8056105/t…

When it becomes *mandatory* that you stop using something that you like, and switch to some new thing, it’s almost *always* for the worse. - Fluorescent light bulbs. - Low-flow toilets. - Low pressure shower heads. - Paper straws. - Wayland display server. - Rust programming language.

Check out the NeXTStep, Emacs, Desqview/X, & TRS-80 Model 100 Lunduke Journal Walls. They are... so choice. x.com/LundukeJournal…

So… the UK government has “initiated work” to invade the USA, and steal money from US citizens, because the UK is mad that Americans didn’t follow irrelevant UK laws in America.

Linux Mint Says Wayland Worse Experience than X11 "We worked really hard on Wayland"... "and the experience is almost on par with X11."

@WildWiredWeasel Because it is a quote.

@LundukeJournal Why is the word sabotage in quotes

OpenMandriva's Attempted "Sabotage" by Former Contributor A disgruntled former Linux distro contributor. Deleted desktop packages. Accusations of (potentially criminal) sabotage. Lunduke speaks to everyone to sort it out.

A thought I started to articulate during this episode, but then got side tracked: The specific actions described as "sabotage" of OpenMandriva here could, indeed, be classified as such. That's certainly how I view it with the details we know. More to the point: I would suggest that, depending on the locales of everyone involved, there could be some pretty serious legal consequences. Should OpenMandriva take legal action against the individual responsible? That's a serious question, with a great deal to consider. I've heard compelling, reasonable arguments from both sides of that question. My impression is that, right or wrong, OpenMandriva is not looking to get lawyers involved. They're simply looking to move on and focus on the software.

Received the following statement from OpenMandriva leader, Bernhard Rosenkränzer: “Everything has been recovered, no data lost (not even commit history), and the packages will stay unless and until there is a consensus that they should be removed.”

I reached out to Davide Beatrici, the developer who was accused of deleting GitHub data and sabotaging some of the OpenMandriva project infrastructure. “This was by no means a ‘sabotage’,” he said. “The objective was not to harm the distribution I cared for.” “I carefully deleted all Cosmic and GNOME repositories from GitHub.” Beatrici also stated the deletion of packages “was planned by me alone” and “what finally prompted me to take ‘extreme’ action was a team member messing with my work.” “I took I personally,” Beatrici said.

A disgruntled former contributor to the OpenMandriva Linux distribution decided to engage in acts of sabotage, using his (not fully revoked) admin access to: - Delete years and years worth of data from their GitHub repository. - Create packages intended to sabotage end users. The OpenMandriva team says they “are currently working to restore the deleted repositories”. forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-re…

The Linux Mint project has announced that support for Wayland “will no longer be considered ‘experimental’,” but is still not quite as good as X11. “We worked really hard on Wayland” … “and the experience is almost on par with X11.” “Almost on par.” After years and years of development of Wayland, and a tremendous amount of work by the Linux Mint & Cinnamon developers… the best that could be done was to make Wayland not *quite* as good of an experience as X11. This seems to be a recurring theme among Desktop Environments. XFCE is hitting issues, despite dedicated (paid) development, where running on Wayland simply cannot be as high quality as X11 due to Wayland design issues. blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5046

If @LundukeJournal had to choose between Back To The Future and Aliens... what would he pick? 🤔 He let us know here, also an update in the Greatest Movie Franchise Tournament and how we got to where we are from @PandaSub2000 (Phoenix)

Microsoft's Project Aion (AI Desktop) Leaked Demo Video This leaked video shows Microsoft's AI centric vision for a future OS. No native (legacy) Windows software. All web based, and all AI.