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I'd argue KHTML could give Linux a run for its money for that title.
No way. KHTML is a cautionary tale of what happens when open source is coopted by corporate power. How can you call KHTML successful when it is dead, with its progeny in tight control of Google/Apple?
(Before you say "but gecko!", take a look at the usage stats.)
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Pretty bad take and calling it “a collection of drivers, some VMM, and some syscalls” is a bit reductive. Linux kernel is built and maintained across a variety of people. To my knowledge, nobody is directly paid by Linux foundation yet these people come together to slowly improve the kernel everybody uses either directly or indirectly. It’s also a demonstration of the greatness that humans can achieve if we work toge…
I think Linus is
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Chromium doesn't support hardware decoded video though right? While Firefox does, so you're killing your battery life with extra cpu cycles.
Chromium doesn't document this but they support hardware video decode on Linux. Works best on Intel iGPU. AMD needed some patches to get it working using Vulkan IIRC and Nvidia is Nvidia.
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LLMs are not an "important advancement of humankind". Might as well add crypto if that's the bar.
If crypto is the bar, Linux looks even worse. At least crypto was novel in the past 30 years. Linux works on new hardware and... that's it. There's nothing new about Linux. As far as OSes go there is seL4 other interesting research. Linux is a toilet. It flushes. It has utility. That's good, but I don't need to hear about every new release of something which just isn't changing in fundamental ways.
6.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
Resume from sleep stopped working, and boot started taking minutes. Going through logs I was able to figure out it was probably usb related, and that sleep worked if you were patient enough to wait for a timeout, but the issue persisted with all cables unplugged. The error code was something along the lines of failing to provide enough power for a device, I suspected my new speakers despite them having dedicated wall outlet power (usb audio despite being on the motherboard AFAIK)
Long story short someone in a thread somewhere suggested unplugging from the wall for 10 min and to my surprise it worked - I guess it cleared the fault somehow and it hasn't reoccurred (yet). Might be worth a try.
6.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
I am really surprised with RNDA3 support. I have never seen so many issue with iGPU (APU). It started with VP9 decoder issue (e.g. just playing videos on YouTube was enough to trigger it), but that got fixed after a very long time (required a new firmware). Multiple constant [different] crashes, but you can workaround most of them by adding amdgpu.sg_display=0 to your bootargs. It's already listed in Arch Linux wiki,…
Long way since Linux 3.11 for Workgroups [0]: [0]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/linux-kernel-3-11-...
Man, time flies. I remember Slashdot's thread announcing it. Linux versioning now is the worst kind of arbitrary! It's the web-browser "just iterate the number" method, but with the appearance of semantic versioning.
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No way. KHTML is a cautionary tale of what happens when open source is coopted by corporate power. How can you call KHTML successful when it is dead, with its progeny in tight control of Google/Apple?
Because it formed the basis for essentially every web engine that is used today? I would call that successful. (Before you say "but gecko!", take a look at the usage stats.)