I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
I saw the spelling, and assumed it was Android on an Arduino.
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#132I really wish people creating a distro, and even more so distro of a distro of a distro should not call it OS. (Debian - Ubuntu . AnduinOS) I am alwasy happy to look at new operating system projects. It is a major hobby. Could distros use AnduinDI AnduinUbuntu AnduinLinux. or just Anduin I dont like getting my hopes up like that.
Technically what people often refer to as "Linux" should more properly be called "GNU slash Linux", or as I've taken to calling it, "GNU plus Linux", GNU being a holistic operating system with multiple kernel... ;)
GNU people would insist so. But Linus Torvalds doesn't use that name and he seems indifferent to the whole GNU thing. The kernel was actually named Linux after Linus by early users and it kind of stuck. The license came later. And the Linux Foundation, the thing that is now probably closest to "owning" Linux (aside from Linus Torvalds) just calls it the "Linux kernel". There is no actual distribution called GNU/Linux. And insisting they all should be called that is a bit weird. None of those actually refer to themselves as GNU/Linux as far as I know.
Aside from that, it's also an inaccurate label these days. Most Linux distributions come with a lot of non GNU licensed software. To the point where these distributions (or any distribution) would be unusable without all that non GNU software. For example xfree86 and its modern replacement wayland are MIT licensed. Some popular window managers are GPL of course. But some aren't.
And some distributions actually replace GNU components on purpose (for stability/memory safety reasons usually). For example libc is now sometimes replaced by a MIT licensed variant called musl. You can now compile Linux with llvm instead of gcc. People commonly use zsh instead of bash. There are rust implementations of commonly used command line tools. Etc.
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#133I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
Nope, also on the same boat, quite an unfortunate name.
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#134This actually looks pretty neat, particularly the integration with Flatpak. One thing that confused me when I first went to Linux a million years ago was the difference in how you install stuff. With Windows you download an exe file, double click it, next next next finish, and you have your app installed. With Linux, every distro is slightly different and it's almost never quite as straightforward to people. I think…
On your mobile phone you install software like in linux, by looking it up in the store. Windows is the outlier
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#135I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
"An operating system for Arduino boards?" — my first thought.
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#136Why do people keep doing this?
Because instead of trying to improve GNU/Linux to be a solid alternative to Apple, Google and Microsoft offerings, we have politics with everyone doing their own little village.
It was one of the reasons I eventually went back to Windows as main driver, yes it sucks for some things, there is M$ and all that, yet when one of my devices breaks down, I can get a replacement on the same day, without dealing with whatever snowflake hardware I need to order online that hopefully will actually support 100% of its capabilities.
VMWare Workstation, and WSL nowadays, take care of whatever needs I might have on GNU/Linux related development.
On Cloud side, we use whatever is the provider's custom distro, with customisations that most likely never end upstream.
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#137I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
First thought: Wow someone is running a full DE on an Arduino! How cool!!
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
flatpack, snap and all thpse docker wanabee solve the right problem the wrong way. (pseudo)static is a quick & dirty solution to a real problem. really solving it requires skills and time. which are all quite scarse given the new generation appetite for ease of use over efficiency
What is the right way to solve this problem in your view? If Rust continues to take over we will end up with (truly)static everything, which doesn't look too bad.
Looks terrible to me. Huge waste of disk,RAM and a thousand gaping security holes waiting to happen.
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#139Is this the distro created by a MS employee?
I wonder if this is a weird tasting the waters for an eventual MS Azure Linux Desktop Edition...
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
flatpack, snap and all thpse docker wanabee solve the right problem the wrong way. (pseudo)static is a quick & dirty solution to a real problem. really solving it requires skills and time. which are all quite scarse given the new generation appetite for ease of use over efficiency
What is the right way to solve this problem in your view? If Rust continues to take over we will end up with (truly)static everything, which doesn't look too bad.
Rust supports dynamic linking btw.
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2022-09-09-speeding-up-increment... https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2024/08/27/rust-dylib...