The Lunduke Journal

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@sagivo Just the Intel Dell XPS 13’s. No Snapdragon support (yet).

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LCOS 1.0.1 is live!

You can grab the ISO from https://t.co/BV6A0Qh2YR, and existing LCOS 1.0 installations can simply do an upgrade.

- More hardware support, including: the latest Dell XPS 13 laptops, MSI/Galaxy Book laptops, and more.

- A new version of the Lunduke Linux Kernel, to sync with changes in Linux 7.2.15 (without Rust components)... plus updated to XLibre 25.1.11.

Full release notes can be found here:
https://t.co/cpxJJavjbj

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Haiku, the Open Source BeOS clone, appears to now be refusing AI generated code:

“While we don’t accept any LLM-generated code, we don’t reject issues discovered with the aid of LLMs out of hand, either.”

This according to the most recent Haiku monthly report, published Tuesday evening:

https://t.co/TRXraCxZwd

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Has GNOME Gone Insane?

A "Code of Conduct Violation Backlog", a full on civil war with screams of "Trans Rights!" and "Free Palestine!", and their worst financial year since pre-Shaman.

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Considering the fact that GNOME is a critical component (the desktop and a huge percentage of the software suite) of nearly every major enterprise Linux distribution (IBM/Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, Oracle, etc.), it should be rolling in dough.

The fact that GNOME is struggling is bizarre.

What’s even *more* bizarre is how several Billion dollar companies feel comfortable shipping GNOME software… considering the wildly erratic, angry, and (quite frankly) insane antics of GNOME.

[probono @probonopd]

@LundukeJournal "only" $435,000. What?
This project has almost half a million?

[Greg Gauthier @gmgauthier1967]

The state of Open Source right now:

Thanks, Bryan.

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@gmgauthier1967 Absolutely.

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The LCOS 1.0.1 update is on the way!

Updated Kernel, Updated XLibre, more hardware support... just a fantastic update across the board.

If the tests continue passing (so far around 80% of the over 7,000 tests in the Comp Test Suite have finished without problems) we could see the 1.0.1 release as soon as later today.

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The writers behind @FOSSForce say they have been temporarily suspended from posting to Facebook because, according to them, they posted a link invoking the "Lunduke" name.

"[Lunduke] does have a way of making us liberal woke snowflake types feel both unrespected and unwelcome" and unsafe if "we start shouting lefty slogans at a Lunduke rally".

https://t.co/BoUZBFDlQx

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The GNOME Foundation appears set to have it's worst year since 2022, financially -- projecting only $435,000 in total revenue.

To put this in perspective:

- In 2024 the GNOME Foundation laid off 33% of their staff... while seeing significantly higher total revenue than the current year.

- In 2023 GNOME infamously hired a "Professional Shaman" (who sold Shaman water, and "Become a Pro Shaman" courses, on YouTube).

This current fiscal year (2025 - 2026), according to GNOMES Communication Specialist, is set to be worse than either of those years.

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Did the "USA Vote Against AI Data Centers"?

The narrative is that America "revolted" against AI data centers in the recent midterm election. But is that really what happened?

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What is the GNOME Foundation doing instead of making software?

They are “wading through the [Code of Conduct report] backlog”.

Apparently GNOME has received so many “Code of Conduct” violation reports that they have an entire team dedicated to dealing with them (unsuccessfully).

Open Source organizations who operate like this are fundamentally broken.

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The fighting within GNOME continues to escalate… and it is, miraculously, becoming even more nonsensical.

“Bigoted dog whistles”
“Trans rights”
“Free Palestine”
“Privilegesplain”

Multiple people have had “temporary suspensions” (one week) due to “Code of Conduct violations”. Which has prompted even more yelling for “Trans Rights” and “Free Palestine”.

What does any of that have to do with a Linux Desktop Environment? Your guess is as good as mine.

They’re also bringing back their hatred of the Framework computer company, once again calling them “Nazis”.

To be clear: A significant amount of this yelling is coming from long-time, prominent GNOME contributors (including the people who draft press releases and handle public relations).

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“Real men manage their own memory.”
- Elon Musk

“Memory safety is for the weak.”
- Lunduke

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Owl_of_Atena @cradrrat Real men manage their own memory

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This might warrant checking out.

Anyone with experience with Ember?

[Kevin Rose @kevinrose]

Want your own Slack for $0? I open-sourced Ember. It deploys to @Cloudflare’s free tier in about a minute, works with Slack-compatible payloads, and includes an AI assistant and media attachments.

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Both the GNOME and Debian projects are in utter meltdown right now.

Wild, and erratic fighting over AI/LLM policies are threatening to split both organizations apart.

And GNOME is also having this weird, nonsensical, ongoing fight about who-knows-what… where currently they are battling it out over whether or not a “Trans” dude should be exempt from their Codes of Conduct.

Because they are “endangered”. Or something.

None of it makes a lick of sense.

Are these people on drugs?

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Asahi Linux Drops MIT License for GPL to Spite Omarchy

Even more bizarre: Asahi accuses "bad faith actors" of "exploiting" the open source code... by "lifting" it (read: stealing).

Apparently modifying open source code, in a way consistent with the license, is theft. 🤪

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The Chief Architect of OpenLDAP says that “AI-generated contributions MUST always be rejected.”

Part of the growing rift between “Pro-AI” and “Anti-AI” Open Source projects.

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Gregory raises a critical point about the whole “Asahi re-licenses from MIT to GPL” story…

This sort of licensing change requires the consent of every copyright holder (aka developer) on every component which Asahi wishes to re-license. Asahi specifically states that “you retain all copyright ownership of any code you write”.

Which means potentially hundreds of different developers.

Did Asahi leadership get approval from all copyright holders before announcing the sweeping licensing change?

[Gregory M. Kurtzer @gmkurtzer]

@LundukeJournal How can they change the license without written approvals from every contributor?!?

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From what I’ve seen:

- Asahi is unhappy that Omarchy is basing work on some of Asahi’s Open Souce code.

- Based purely on statements from Asahi developers, and those close to them, this reaction is based on Asahi’s dislike of both AI and any politics other than extreme Leftist politics.

- This prompted a bizarre response from Asahi. They appear to be trying to get some type of revenge on Omarchy — or to stop Omarchy in some way? — but it just made Asahi look like they don’t understand Open Source licenses in general.

- The official response from DHH and Omarchy was, paraphrasing, “Ok, weird. But it doesn’t really change anything for us.”

Strong, emotional reaction from Asahi. Bemusement from Omarchy.

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

I don't understand why Omarchy crowd is upset and angry with Asahi Linux opting for GPL instead of MIT license.

How does it impact Omarchy negatively?

Why so much hatred against Asahi and towards GPL, the OG open source license?