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Re: Alternatives To Linux

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Alternatives To Linux
Date 2025-09-01 02:56 +0000
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:49:50 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2025-08-28 12:28 a.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> I thought it was supposed to be a seamless replacement for the existing
>> Xorg. What are they changing to break backward compatibility?
> 
> I don't know because I haven't looked into it. It's a complaint made by
> people on Reddit who reject XLibre altogether. I took them at their
> word, but I am quite aware of how often Linux zealots lie, especially
> the homosexual allies.

You accuse them of lying, yet you can’t be bothered to verify the facts 
for yourself. You think the facts will lie to you as well? You think maybe 
the Universe itself is gay, and you’re afraid to find out?

> XLibre is available as a fork for anyone who wants to continue using
> X but wants it to get updates and fixes. Distributions who pride
> themselves on giving the user choice decided not only that they
> wouldn't carry the project, but the X11 project prohibited the
> developer who started the project from working on it.

It’s not possible to “prohibit” anyone from working on their own fork of 
Free software. That’s what “Free as in freedom” means.

If distros don’t to use that code, it would be purely from reasons of 
(lack of) quality.

All you have to do, to prove otherwise, is to show us yourself 
successfully using the code in question.

> Additionally, as a result of Biden's executive order against rogue
> nations having access to American software, Russian developers and their
> contributions were blacklisted from Linux.

I checked into that. Note these were actually Europe-wide sanctions -- the 
USA couldn’t have forced this on its own.

Also, the code previously contributed from those developers remains in 
place.

This doesn’t stop the Russians from creating their own fork of the Linux 
kernel.

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Alternatives To Linux Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2025-08-24 11:51 +0000
  Re: Alternatives To Linux "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-08-24 08:10 -0400
    Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-24 22:04 +0000
      Re: Alternatives To Linux "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-08-24 18:24 -0400
      Re: Alternatives To Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 01:18 +0000
  Re: Alternatives To Linux Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-24 13:04 +0000
    Re: Alternatives To Linux Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> - 2025-08-24 13:53 +0000
      Re: Alternatives To Linux Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-24 15:46 +0000
        Re: Alternatives To Linux Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-08-24 19:29 +0000
        Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-25 08:47 -0400
          Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-25 21:50 +0000
            Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-25 18:09 -0400
              Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-26 00:39 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-25 21:18 -0400
                Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-26 01:49 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-26 09:46 -0400
                Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-28 04:28 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-28 08:49 -0400
                Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-01 02:56 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-09-01 08:51 -0400
                Re: Alternatives To Linux Borax Man <boraxman@geidiprime.invalid> - 2025-09-04 10:54 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-09-04 11:19 -0400
                Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-05 00:17 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-09-04 21:31 -0400
          Re: Alternatives To Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-08-26 07:31 +0000
            Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-26 09:53 -0400
              Re: Alternatives To Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-26 19:12 +0000
              Re: Alternatives To Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-08-27 06:30 +0000
                Re: Alternatives To Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-08-27 09:05 -0400
                Re: Alternatives To Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-27 19:59 +0000
    Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-24 22:07 +0000
      Re: Alternatives To Linux Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-30 08:59 +0000
  Re: Alternatives To Linux Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2025-08-27 11:42 +0800
    Re: Alternatives To Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-27 07:23 +0000
      Re: Alternatives To Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-27 19:55 +0000

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