It was initially based on deb in the earlier iterations of its life, but ultimately, we decided to use Fedora as a base as a good balance between stability and new feature enablement.
That decision also makes it easier for us to contribute to Fedora upstream and collab with others, for example AWS uses Fedora for the base of Amazon Linux too, so there may be ways we can work together to solve common problems. I'm not making any future/promise statements with that comment. My point is, we are happy to collab upstream, using real open-source, community pathways.
I've created and managed five distributions for two companies. I've found RPM to have slightly easier tooling across the whole stack, from developers building individual RPMs/specs up through building and managing 1000s of RPMs across multiple releases. The Fedora build model makes a great reference and source of tools for spinning your own distributions.
My experience over the years with a few Linux distributions is that rpm based distros always seem to give me more problems with dependencies and always seems harder to fix. These days I much prefer deb based distributions, mainly Ubuntu as I like their trade-off between stability and newer versions though I'm not a fan of snap packages.
> “We’re entering an era of untrustable code everywhere” - This assumes AI-generated code is inherently less trustworthy than human-written code, which isn’t obviously true.
It's not true if your humans are on controlled substances all the time, it is true if we are talking about real humans.
I've been testing coding agents on real code and I can say without a doubt that they make worse mistakes than humans.
I'm European and European providers need to start by not being dishonest, we can't just give 'em some slack just because they are "ours". I'm not putting my data into a company that can't even be honest about their actual reliability.
Péter Magyar has emerged exactly 1 year and 5 days ago, he went from a nobody to looking more and more like the end to Orbán's reign.
Orbán has been complacent because the opposition was fragmented and useless, but now it looks like it's the end of the line for them and they are scrambling and just digging themselves deeper and deeper. They attack Péter Magyar with all sorts of unprofessional and childish insults, they leaked his medical records, however each time they do this, it usually backfires spectacularly.
A rapper named "Majka" has made a song about a prime minister of a country called "Bindzsistan", of course everyone knew who he was referring to and FIDESZ members made the fatal mistake of reacting to it, thereby confirming that they do believe that they are the corrupt establishment the song is about. We are now at the stage where Magyar Péter is the pop culture cool guy and FIDESZ is the uncool party.
I believe that the best thing Orbán and his party can do is: shut up, but they won't due to their arrogance.
Most Hungarians either indifferent about the Pride parade or they support it, attacking it earns FIDESZ very little.
In Hungary the interpretation of the GDPR is so hardline that it's virtually impossible to install security cameras, I find this move incredibly hypocritical and believe that if the EU values their credibility they will act, otherwise we can conclude that the GDPR was a complete waste of money.
I don't get the obsession with YAML and making things declarative that really should not be declarative.
I'm so much happier on projects where I can use the non-declarative Jenkins pipelines instead of GH Actions or BB pipelines.
These YAML pipelines are bad enough on their own, but throw in a department that is gatekeeping them and use runners as powerful as my Raspberry Pi and you have a situation where a lot of developers just give up and run things locally instead of the CI.
I haven't tried to step through Scons, so that may be a system that looks like how I want it to look but fails entirely to deliver on its promises for all I know.
I think there's a place for making a builder that looks imperative, but can work out a tree of actions and run them. Gulp is a little bit this way, but again I haven't tried to breakpoint through it either.
If the next evolution in DevEx is not caring about what your code looks like in a stepping debugger, then the one after it will be. Making libraries that present a tight demo app for the Readme.md file and then are impossible to do anything tricky with or god forbid debug just needs to fucking stop. Yesterday. And declarative systems are almost always the worst.
European here: other than people obsessed with certain political events, nobody really cares, people aren't going to throw away their iPhones and switch away from Microsoft.
I also find this very strange, that people did not talk about doing the mass exodus after we found out the US is conducting mass surveillance on us, but just because they don't like the politics of the current president, they start talking about how bad the US is.
> The expectation is that especially US tech will be weaponized
That should always have been the expectation, that's why the basic idea of GDPR was a good one, too bad they have botched it in the end.
> I know people in the US are focused on DOGE, but over here in Europe, the impression is that the US completely destroyed its soft power this week.
It's just some politicians who are unhappy because things didn't go their way, a lot of ordinary people are just happy to see hope that the economic suicide might be coming to an end, maybe next year my energy bills won't be 3x of what they used to be 3 years ago, one can dream.
Keep in mind that most people don't even understand what current events are about, the vocal minority can be very vocal.
> so people are switching search engines
> Are people talking about this - do they take it seriously or believe there is no alternative to US tech?
Switching search engines is easy, try switching your whole office from Windows to Linux.
> What does it mean for US startups, California and global tech?
It will mean nothing, if I need to build a product that requires US tech and there is no alternative, I'm going to use the US tech, end of story.
No it didn't, you just need to stop asking questions an LLM can easily solve, most of those were probably terrible questions to begin with.
I can create a simple project with 20 files, where you would need to check almost all of them to understand the problem you need to solve, good luck feeding that into an LLM.
Maybe you have some sneaky script or IDE integration that does this for you, fine, I'll just generate a class with 200 useless fields to exhaust your LLM's context length.
Or I can just share my screen and ask you to help me debug an issue.
We should have seen this post before Hector Martin got so fed up that he decided to resign(to be fair, he probably had other issues as well that contributed).
I was very confused by the lack of an actual response from Linus, he only said that social media brigading is bad, but he didn't give clarity on what would be the way forward on that DMA issue.
I have worked in a similar situation and it was the worst experience of my work life. Being stonewalled is incredibly painful and having weak ambiguous leadership enhances that pain.
If I were a R4L developer, I would stop contributing until Linus codifies the rules around Rust that all maintainers would have to adhere to because it's incredibly frustrating to put a lot of effort into something and to be shut down with no technical justification.
Clarity was apparently provided privately. However, I have to say that a public statement would have been better. I can only imagine how demoralizing it is for the R4L contributors to watch their work being trashed in public and the leadership is only privately willing to give reassurances. Not to mention bad for recruitment.
You know, the complaint is that R4L would add undue load to existing maintainers (at least that's about the only coherent technical thing I've gathered from Christoph's emails). What also adds undue load to existing maintainers is causing their peers to quit. Hector Martin is a talented individual and the loss of him will surely be felt.
> end up suffering US state censorship at some point.
You had a higher risk for that with the democrats, remember the AI videos that upset Kamala and Gavin?
European countries have a far worse track record of censorship.
> Still, I would flag use of US services as a major risk for non-US businesses right now.
> Given the current state of things, I think it's entirely plausible that US services are either hit with things like tariffs, or end up suffering US state censorship at some point.
Who made your phone, your computer and the OS your computer is running?
