Rudra Saraswat, who’s been at the center of development since the remix’s early days, no longer has time to maintain the project due to university studies.

Reminder: The entire effort relied on a 12 year old kid only three years ago, so of course at some point he has actual responsibilities: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/04/rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu_projects/

I try not to put much stock in black-and-white opinions because I think the answer is rarely that simple.

• Either Flatpak is supported out of the box or not.

• Either Ubuntu 25.10 launched with broken Flatpak support or not.

• Either Snap Store allows random crap or not.

• Either Ubuntu 25.10 launched with broken automatic security updates or not.

Sometimes facts are actually black-and-white and not shades of grey opinions. Also, brushing away simple truths by insisting they are extremely complex facets of a thing the common person does not need to get involved is a common disinformation tactic, used by the likes of climate change deniers etc. since decades.

How about you implement it?

No, absolutely not. Apple is anti Linux. Giving them money over manufacturers with actual Linux support is the completely wrong. AMD is the way to go.

coreutils is, well, important. It’s fine to bring new software in, but you have to test it. And they haven’t tested enough.

They abolished alpha and beta versions because Canonical’s QA is so good, they don’t need them any longer…

25.10 is an interim release specifically there for testing new things.

You’re confusing alpha and beta versions with an actual release. A release without long term support is still a release.

the only functionality I’ve ever found missing is USB-C video out

Pretty basic feature to miss.

I hope whoever is managing this does it better than Ubuntu’s rust debacle

Honestly: Why? Apple M processor platform support relies completely on reverse engineering. It’s not a production-ready platform despite what some people keep shouting in forums. Even old M1 and M2 Macs can only reboot running Linux since this summer: https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/linux-6-17-will-be-able-to-reboot-silicon-macs/

A Rust rewrite of the bootloader is the least of their construction sites.

I forgot that systemd had been allowed to take over /tmp and /run.

According to Debian everyone is allowed to take over /run

Why on earth would the permissions on /var/lock be something for systemd to decide?

Because – as LWN explains – there no longer is an overarching standards body who makes the decision, so anybody can make up their own.

Debian’s continued use of UUCP-style locking does seem to be more than a little bit dated. The FHS 3.0 is clearly reaching the end of its useful life, if not actually expired.

Seems like Debian is more the outlier here.

Flatpak support broken, shovelware pile Snap Store pushed down users’ throats, and now this.

Anyone who thinks that Ubuntu is the best choice for new Linux users is fundamentally wrong.

Properly attributed generated lines are easier to remove should courts declare them illegal.

What would projects with undeclared AI code do? Shut everything down? Revert everything until the commit before ChatGPT launched? Just say yolo and go on?

The middle ground, IMO, is not letting it spit out code.

Are SPEC files for RPM creation code? How much actual code is even written under the Fedora umbrella, except maintenance scripts and such? Adjacent projects such as Anaconda are in the rhinstaller organization on Github: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda

Either I overlooked the details or they aren’t spelled out. From my experience of packaging software for myself as RPM (for openSUSE) the amount of actual code are a few lines of bash scripting to invoke sed and such.

Much of distribution development is writing menial scripts and SPEC files. It’s tedious work with little creativity. The last SPEC file for an RPM package I wrote from scratch was years ago but it was so tedious work. The Arch maintainers even argue that their PKGBUILD files are so simple, they don’t pass the so-called threshold of originality and therefore are public domain anyway.

Much can be (and probably already is) automated. Compilation directives like CMake files already contain all the info needed to generate a workable if a bit bare bones SPEC file. I’d say an LLM might even be overkill for what a script could also achieve. The result is public domain anyway.

I guess it’s time to go shopping for a new distro :(

If you think that undisclosed AI contributions aren’t happening everywhere, you’re delusional.

Not yet released, right?

What? The author posted the code as patch set to review. That’s literally what the article is about.

The amount of contributions to FOSS from a downstream Ubuntu remix are very limited. Better donate to Debian or buy a Steam Deck.

Sorry that I am too lazy to watch the video, but what does the doc do? Just charging or video out as well?

Considering that I already wrote “Followup to I Made A Junk System Into The Ultimate 3DS Console – complete with USB-C charging and capture card” into the description of the post, it obviously supports video out for that specific modded 3DS.

The Fedora hate is strong with this one.

Colorized by AI

It’s really no energy at all to just install Krita or Gimp to crop 5 images.