This is a thread about slow uptake by programs of Wayland.
X works for me.
This is a thread about slow uptake by programs of Wayland.
X works for me.
This is a thread about slow uptake by programs of Wayland.
X works for me.
What is there to explain?
Please explain.
you think the distros have to implement their own version of Wayland?
Nope. They do have to test their own removed.
Why make a change when one can just not?
But why would the distros do that? It takes effort and has real costs for them.
It is not enough to make a better product.
It is not enough to create all tooling and libraries to seamlessly migrate to the new product, but it helps.
There also needs to be a great big positive reason to make the change. Paying developers, huge user base, the only hardware support, great visuals, etc.
Until I cannot run software on X11, I won’t switch over knowingly.
Thank you for pulling the image out.
This talk surprised me at the time. I was starting the eye opening experience of design hardware. Linux more orchestrates the hardware than controlling it.
To avoid convo in multiple places, it is in reply to message you replied to.
USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It’s Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich
At 19:22
RISC-V is better for Linux due to driver support. Vendors making hardware are more likely to use RISK-V for their controllers due to the costs. Modern computers are putting more functions under control of kernels that run on proprietary compute. (There exists a chart showing how little the Linux kernel directly controls.) As more of those devices run RISC-V, they will become more discoverable.
Also, those that can design or program tge devices will have more transferrable skills. Leading to the best designs spreading, and all designs improving.
Places in a computer with compute (non-exhaustive, not all candidates for RISC-V):
BMC
Soundcard (or subsystem on mainboard)
Video card (GPU and the controller for the GPU)
Storage drives
Networking
Drive interface controlling card
Mainboard (not BMC)
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor
UPS
Printer
Will it be perfect? Nope.
A lot of the vendors will lock things up as well.
The only people I have known with certs didn’t have educations. Generally, the fewer degrees, the more certs. There are exceptions.
If you have a PhD or Masters, then certifications are unlikely worth it.
If you don’t have a Bachelors, then certs are critical. Many jobs will just reject you.
A Bachelors is where certs seem to do the most good.
All of this in my part of the USA (Midwest and West) and speciality (HPC). I have been involved in hiring in several organizations.
The Linux community has never been of one mind on anything. We have always been against, and for, everything.
Some distro or project will integrate AI, or not, and it will be forked. And then forked again.
Many AI models are run on Linux. Linux won’t be left behind in any real sense. Linux won’t lose market share over this.
Linux developers paid by AI firms will integrate it into products. Those that volunteer will make their own decisions.
Bit horrifying they put that much in the air.
No. It can be localized (for large scales of localized).
Also, we are finding through putting solar farms on crop fields, sun light is not the limiter on photosynthesis for many plants. Many plants get too hot, loose moisture, and photosynthesis less.
There already is no alternative. The amount of CO2 released is going to stay high for a long time (centuries?). People are dying from the current weather.
For the expected response: We need to also stop making things worse. Humanity can do two things at once.
USA is huge and education is largely decentralized. Results are ALL over the place.
If there is sufficient RAM on the laptop, Linux will cache a lot of metadata in other cache layers without NFS-Cache.
NFS-Cache is a specific cache for NFS, and does not represent all caching that can be done of files over NFS. “Direct I/O” is also a specific thing, and should not be generalized in the meanings of “direct” and “I/O”.
Let’s skip those entirely for now as I cannot simply explain either. I doubt either will matter in your use case, but look back if performance lags.
One laptop accessing one NFS share will have good performance on a quite local network.
NFS is an old protocol that is robust and used frequently. NFSv3 is not encrypted. NFSv4 has support for encryption. (ZeroTier can handle the encryption.)
SSHFS is a pseudo file system layered over SSH. SSH handles encryption. SSHFS is maybe 15 years old and is aimed at convenience. SSH is largely aimed at moving streams of text between two points securely. Maybe it is faster now than it was.
ZeroTier allows for a mobile, LAN-like experience. If the laptop is at a café, the files can be accessed as if at home, within network performance limits.
Will Ellison and government officials volunteer to be observed for next 5 years to prove software?
(No.)