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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

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Re: Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

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Post by superkuh »

It's a shame to see but inevitable when trying to get open software working on such a proprietary platform with so many hardware cut corners and incomplete/non-standard implementations. Just an insane amount of work of the most frustrating kind. What they did manage to do was incredible... but Apple is Apple.

Re: Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

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Post by bezier-curve »

I think if I was indicted by Linus and told I'm a problem over spreading awareness about a position on social media, I too would burn out pretty quickly. That's how you crush motivation. There's a deeper issue in open-source culture where harshness and gatekeeping drive away passionate contributors.

Re: Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

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Post by naasking »

bezier-curve wrote: post #4

I think if I was indicted by Linus and told I'm a problem over spreading awareness about a position on social media, I too would burn out pretty quickly. That's how you crush motivation. There's a deeper issue in open-source culture where harshness and gatekeeping drive away passionate contributors.

Maintaining the Linux kernel is all about gatekeeping. How else do you keep out bad code?

Re: Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

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Post by Octoth0rpe »

Well that's unfortunate.

It seems like there's a balancing act between the benefits of writing drivers in Rust (easier, more maintainable), and getting those drivers mainlined (apparently soul-destroying, morale killing), I wonder if the Asahi team is considering simply abandoning linux in favor of something more rust friendly (redox being an obvious candidate, but maybe one of the BSDs?). Given the narrow set of hardware they're aiming to support and that they're writing many of their own drivers _anyway_ (and so are not relying as much on the large # of existing linux drivers), that approach might be more viable. I'd be surprised if the Asahi GPU work wasn't the largest problem by far that their team faces, and as such it would make sense to choose a kernel that lowers the difficulty on that aspect to the greatest degree possible.

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