Amongst other things, the amount of work Ubuntu does providing kernels is something that many distros want to take advantage of.

Discover has long had integrated Deb, snap, and flatpak integration. Oh, and fwupd too.

Lalalala LAAA laa

Kubuntu 26.04 coming along so well!

Fwiw while I mostly agree with you, the G in GPL stands for General.

Gotta find something else to grate your cheese.

Try putting it on the speaker’s nose and jiggling.

Most of Canonical’s software, including things like multipass and lxd are GPL or AGPL licensed. Even their corporate website is LGPL’d.

Meanwhile at work I’m dealing with the on-device differences between MBR and GPT partition schemes… 🫩

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while…

Right now Asahi increases the value of ARM based Macs slightly since there’s another market of people who will buy them.

Once Asahi means that people can keep end-of-life ARM based Macs running, the calculation for Apple will change.

Open source, mainline PowerVR drivers are a huge step forward for practical RISC-V machines.

This was always the case. Main and restricted were guaranteed by Canonical, universe and multiverse fully owned by the community. A bunch of paying customers were unhappy with not getting updates to universe packages, so Canonical made a separate repository that would do that for Ubuntu Pro. Community members with access to the universe repository can still upload fixes there.

It’s not that iOS is unsupported. It’s just that they prohibit browsers from implementing the features my webapp needs.

Snaps are more comparable to nix, really. They can provide system services and even your kernel. Flatpaks and AppImages are only really about distributing desktop apps, but the rest of the system still needs to be provided another way.

Neither Flatpaks nor AppImages can provide those.

Flatpaks are only “competing” with a small portion of what snaps do.

What is a good js framework?

It’s not a Red Hat derivative. It’s upstream of Red Hat.

In a way Fedora is like interim Ubuntu releases, CentOS Stream is like LTS Ubuntu releases, and RHEL is like Ubuntu Pro. So if you want to stay away from a US company, Fedora isn’t a great idea.