Sure the hardware is probably awesome and all. Still this you can't run windows isn't accurate in the least, of course you can, granted NVIDIA probably hasn't done what they needed to do with Microsoft to make it happen, (like write a check) but given the existence of windows on arm it's already there. If anything, windows on arm in a VM is probably just a matter of time.

Still would one like to own one of these, an Apple M4 or an Ampere to run Linux on a top of class Arm system? There are choices....

There have been a number of presentations over the years where various folks (including Greg) have advocated that people and companies should commit to aggressively tracking and moving forward to get the latest fixes and security updates.

The LTS story on kernel.org reflects that. Gone is the 6 year LTS. 6.12 is just 2 years of support. There is a long list of kernels going end of life in Dec of 2026. Companies are not at that point in time where they have to face that face that the time it takes to develop a product barely can get something out and shipping before an LTS would be end of life. It's reality. This especially impacts those shipping Linux in an embedded embodiment as compared to something disto based.

So unless a company can take on the engineering to track the kernel, test, re-qualify their kernel (and potentially other software change) and then ship, they're in a situation where they're going to have to hire someone else to pick up where the community left off. It is not an easy task.

Thankfully in like the Arm space companies like Linaro do this. (and do it well) Ok great, but is this good for the universe? Do we in the kernel community want to empower commercial LTS instead of having a solid community driven LTS?

I do wonder if within the community we should be thinking of a better way to maintain an LTS instead of how it's done today. Doing an LTS is hard, pulling together the patches, a lot of testing, etc it takes a team of smart people to do it well.

And yes I know about CIP, they are not a project I recommend due to the fact that they do not follow the same LTS conventions that kernel.org established. For instance they back port functionality. They are not a general purpose kernel. CIP also does not do extensive testing across a wide variety of hardware like LTS does. CIP has its place, it's just not a general purpose LTS solution.

Given Qualcommâ(TM)s lawsuit with Arm, I doubt itâ(TM)ll be them. Bummer, on the other hand great opportunity for other Arm SoC makers to step up.

Ok fine there is an emulator to make Arm based windows machines able to run intel targeted software.

Thing is when Apple was transitioning architecture all the software makers were hell bent on providing native versions of their software for Arm. Is that same thing happening in the windows ecosystem?

I don't see it. Without that, how do Arm based windows machines ever be more than an experiment?

The replacement of people for self driving AI and suddenly this clickbait isn't as interesting.

Yet the ratio of accidents per hours driven be it AI or human being reveals this money quote : "Waymo, the company has tested its vehicles over 7.1 million miles, or 11.4 million kilometres. According to its own data, there were an estimated 17 fewer injuries and 20 fewer police-reported crashes “compared to if human drivers with the benchmark crash rate would have driven the same distance in the areas we operate.”

Be fun to talk to an engineer at Waymo as far as ideas to further reduce problems. I wonder what a short range system for vehicles to compare notes might accomplish to get the accident numbers down even more, presuming those kinds of system might be on both human and AI driven vehicles.

The Linux Foundation is to be commended in that it puts on great conferences and quite a number in the average year.

The Linux Foundation is great at raising money. If you look at their US non profit filings the amount of cash they've amassed is impressive. It does show how much faith and trust industry has in supporting the LF.

But.

The vast majority of Linux Foundation projects are made up of committees that produce very little engineering, These committees are tuned to extract cash from company sponsorship. The concept of a company contributing engineering instead of cash to advance a project is a foreign one to the LF. The concept of the various projects financially contributing to the average individual contributor doesn't really exist. Most projects themselves are barely scraping by financially since they often have to pay into the LF for salaries for the project managers / support people employed by the foundation. Want to do something unique or awesome for your LF project? Often it means more fundraising, more membership drives because the central full coffers aren't available for the needs of the projects.

In contrast the project that I suspect gets the most contributions the Linux Kernel, it doesn't have a Linux Foundation Committee, the kernel community drives it as it always has. Yes a number of luminaries in the kernel community pick up good sized paychecks from the LF. Kudos to them they deserve it. Some however are also paid or employed by various companies. It's a practice that I wonder if it shouldn't be scrutinized. Being a maintainer and looking out for the best interest of the code is one thing. Getting paid to grease the skids to accelerate the interests of the paying party, that seems fraught with peril.

When the IBM Linux Technology Center was founded it was created on the concept of remote work, remote management. It was innovative for IBM, and it worked. We frankly crushed it in meeting the goals of contributing to Linux and bringing Linux into the IBM portfolio all while utilizing remote work and remote management.

One of the purposes of management be it at IBM or elsewhere is to foster the environment for its staff. If they want an all in person situation, that comes with costs in real-estate as well as travel budgets especially for a large company. It won't be an environment that appeals to everyone, but likewise remote work isn't for everyone either.

Zeroing in on this language : "Upon passing, EARN IT would create a national commission composed of politically-appointed law enforcement specialists"

So what is to prevent political abuse of this particular body? Take Desantis and his crusade against Disney in Florida, what's to stop some idiotic politician(s) from using the law in ways it wasn't intended?

It's great and all to assume it'll be used for good, that's why the law needs to exist, but likewise seems like it needs something to prevent misuse especially in this political climate. I'd rather that politics be taking out of this and it be left up to the professionals.

Hard not to notice the cause and effect of EU requirements for USB-C. Otherwise, nothing to see here, let's all enjoy the government intervention....

It's unfortunate that the FSF wishes to turn a blind eye to Stallman's problematic past.

While some might want to bumble around and play the "did he really card", a more pragmatic question is what real future do FSF projects have if Stallman returns?

Perhaps the time is near when GCC, Glibc etc should be forked from the FSF in the much greater interest of the broad free and open source ecosystem. Doing so to have projects based on high quality software from the contributions of *ALL* is in my opinion something that deserves serious consideration.

Maybe the whole idea of security in this space is to give out a false sense of security. Obviously those that makes phones want you to think they are secure. It's a feature of the device. But likewise what if the government also wants you and J. Random Criminal to think the same thing. Put up a stink, complain that security is too strong so that J R Criminal will put their faith and trust that the device actually is secure.

If the security really isn't that great after all, it's a win for the government they have the ability to gain access to information on device. It doesn't hurt phone sales since the perspective of strong device security is in place. Would J. R. Criminal have put that same information on the device if they knew it wasn't as secure as advertised, maybe not.

This is a hill of maybes, and a dangerous one that that, it's the motivations and actions that potentially are speaking volumes.

No seriously. Does Jack really USE twitter? I don't think so. I've been on twitter a long time and this drivel looks like he misses the entire point of what makes twitter useful and why numerous people are more than a little annoyed that obvious improvements aren't being done.

1) Generally nothing has been about harassment. Those that report and include everything from death threats to flat our racist remarks get told "nothing can be done."
2) Steering the platform towards seeing "content' that interests you is rather crazy when much of the appeal is not only connecting with those you know but being able to 'hang out' and in some cases actually interact with various authors, stars, scientists is what makes it cool. Take a look at what NaNoWriMo does. Take look at the spread of news, or more out of the way things like archeology, the scientific community.

If you look at one of the major ills of Facebook, it's the content. The propaganda that gets circulated around that then incites flame wars doesn't in any way help humanity and frankly has done much to break up friendships and worse. How is this in any way good?

3) 3rd party clients have been treated horribly on twitter yet these are the clients that have made for the best experience and typically been the source for innovation on the platform. Sure says a lot when the best things about the platform came from elsewhere, including Ollie.

I could go on.

I use a positively ancient Apple Extended II for many of exactly the same reasons. I could agree more that these positively old keyboards are in so many ways completely superior to current keyboard technology.

Solid well built devices that are a joy to use, who knew that such things matter....

This article is pretty much click bait, Samsung hasn't actually reported official numbers so it's speculation as far as what the profit numbers actually are, much less Galaxy sales.

First I'd setup a game store, lots of tables, make it a great community place to discover and play.

Second, I'd be writing open source software, kinda like I do now but picking my own projects. Hacking ART or the soon to be released source for swift on Linux.