Message-ID: <689fcfb1@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its drivers are laid off Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <107kmkc$fjp8$1@dont-email.me> <689e5392@news.ausics.net> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 16 Aug 2025 10:24:17 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 61 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71297 Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2025-08-15 10:35, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:38:22 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>> On 2025-08-14 23:22, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> John McCue wrote: >>>>> rbowman wrote: >>>>>> https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-trouble-intel-employees-drivers- >> laid-off/ >>>>> >>>>> What I do not understand about this, why can't the Linux Foundation >>>>> hire them ? >>>> >>>> Well Intel are one of the top sponsors of the Linux Foundation too: >>>> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members >>>> >>>> (buggy Javascript required, and that made Firefox fill up all my PC's >>>> RAM and freeze, so I had to kill it. Just to display some company >>>> logos. Huff! I wouldn't choose Linux as my OS based on that website!) >>>> >>>> >>> The page loads fine here. >> >> It did load in Brave and only took 1.4 of the 8 cores to do so. I didn't >> note the RAM usage. > > In Ffx I looked at "about:processes" After loading the page, enabling linuxfoundation.org in NoScript (before which there's no issue, but also no content on the page), and switching to another tab showing "about:processes" (no other tabs running), the linuxfoundation.org tab's RAM usage rises at around 150MB/sec until the browser window locks up at 1GB (the PC only has 2GB RAM, still fine for running Javascript on sites normally if one doesn't have lots of tabs open). CPU usage for that tab is 130% (quad-core CPU) during this time. I'm using Firefox 128.13.0esr, the current ESR release. My many about:config tweaks might be a factor in triggering the JS bug. Really Firefox should handle memory allocation by Javascript more gracefully than this, since you're expected to be running whatever random junk you get from any dodgy web designer. Maybe it's supposed to? I didn't note having the same trouble with this page in 2024 when I first learned about it in: <6771c9fa@news.ausics.net> I did note though that the page is pretty useless to explain who most of the Linux Foundation's money really comes from because the totals for those sponsors don't approach anything like the overall "membership & donations" figure in the annual report. So it's pure guesswork really. Though you'd suspect some of the top sponsors like Intel supply a big part of the extra money, unless others are being deliberately quiet about it. Terrible web design and unknown financial backing, that website really makes me wonder why I choose Linux. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#