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OFTC is run by the OFTC board (of which tomaw is a member) on behalf of Software in the Public Interest, who originally organized it for Debian.

Although we do not yet support recording the copyright lines in the package metadata, SPDX labels are used to provide linked data references to the license text. Copyright metadata…

If all goes to plan it will be part of Alpine 3.15 as a release variant.

There is supervise-daemon(8) for this.

We are actually in the design phase for a declarative variant of Alpine using OSTree.

With musl we discovered that qemu does not always properly initialize structures when doing the syscall translation. Most likely this is a missing initialization.

TCG's uops are modelled after real ones. It is close enough.

The real takeaway from this is if you want to work on FOSS on your own time, without retribution from your manager, don't work at IBM. As IBM is supposed to be a huge supporter of …

It's not just about adding new architectures to LLVM and rustc, it's also about bootstrapping supported architectures on all architectures supported by a distribution. This isn't f…

George Varghese's Network Algorithmics is a good book for backend-oriented people to learn various fundamental CS algorithms. It presents various CS topics from the perspective of …

Trademark disputes are best solved with litigation, not product relicensing.

Amazon's behavior may feel exploitative, but it isn't. That would be like saying Red Hat is exploitative. Part of the whole concept of free software is that you have freedom of cho…

They share a similarity: the Floragunn litigation is unresolved (and clearly Floragunn continues to distribute their plugin). SCO, too, failed to resolve their litigation favorably…

Yeah? SCO sued a bunch of people too. They haven't won, though.

Incidentally, the fact that it is OK to use Apache-2 licensed components inside projects licensed as SSPL is probably a net negative for free software moving forward as there will …

I read that article and it is very redolent of what SCO argued back in the day. If they had actual proof, they would take legal action against the author of that plugin.

Amazon contributed code to Elasticsearch. They are certainly allowed to profit from their code contributions.

That activity is being driven in musl directly. 1.2 has introduced optimizations for arm, aarch64, x86 and x86_64. there's more to optimize, but some are already there.

The good news is that there is work in progress to untangle the mess with PyPI wheels and musl. But it is easy enough to just not use wheels.

If you don't mind using IRC, there's a lot of people willing to help you get started with this adventure in #alpine-devel on freenode.

We have started to extend musl with optimized routines like glibc does. But really, the performance difference is usually minimal.

On desktop, we support KDE, GNOME and Xfce, which are the big ones, but yes, we could use more work there. It is hoped that the cloud images project will get Alpine available in al…

What is it missing that makes you feel it is unrealistic?

this page really should be updated, at this point all you basically have to do is `apk add gcompat`.

The gcompat project, which provides a wine-like compatibility layer for glibc applications, is pretty close to having vscode working out of the box.