You mean things like cloud-init, juju, a ton of work they do directly upstream on openstack, hardware certifications (which include things like getting vendors to upstream their drivers into the mainline kernel — something even Google has struggled with for Android), and making it more feasible for more companies to run Linux by providing the sort of long-term support that the community just doesn’t prioritise?

Red Hat charge for access to the RHEL binaries. That’s literally why CentOS came into existence.

Everything that’s in main gets released to everyone with the security fixes. Canonical’s security team works on those.

The stuff in the universe repo is owned by the Ubuntu community (not by Canonical), so anyone can submit those fixes, but it depends on the Masters of the Universe, who are all volunteers, to get it upstreamed.

The extra Ubuntu Pro updates for the universe repo come from when someone who’s paying for Ubuntu Pro asks Canonical to make a patch. The source is still available to anyone, so someone could take that patch and then submit it to the community who maintains the universe repo.

Once the 5 years of standard support ends, then the only way to get additional fixes is through Ubuntu Pro, but if Canonical writes those fixes they also submit them back upstream (as opposed to if they grab a specific patch from upstream — and even then it’s still available on Launchpad regardless.

The reason nobody’s made a CentOS but for Ubuntu Pro is that it’s way easier to submit the patches through the community (and become part of that community who approves packages) than it is to spin up all the infrastructure that would be needed.

As someone who owns several RISC-V devices the primary thing preventing usable (low end) RISC-V laptops is the GPUs. Most RISC-V silicon has Imagination GPUs, and the current state of the drivers there is “proprietary drivers stuck on an old LTS kernel.”

If someone makes an RVA23 compliant chip with open mainstreamable drivers and a BXS-4-64 GPU (or, better yet, somehow manages to license a GPU from Intel or AMD for it), that’ll be a cash cow.

So this is the thing… Universe is ready for a continuation basically whenever. Here’s how:

Eli got the last pod working and they went into stasis. However, due to the age of the ship, the stasis didn’t keep them from aging. Unfortunately, some of the crew (whose actors didn’t want to come back) died or are stuck in stasis. A side effect of what Eli did to get the last stasis chamber working also used a ton of energy, so the ship had to conserve power getting to the new galaxy (hence the extra time taken). As they’re starting up the ship again in a new galaxy, they discover that it’s been looted. Everything inconvenient to the production (such as the ancient communication stones) has been taken.

If the production wants, Earth has the power now to dial up the Destiny, but since Destiny can’t dial back, any trip is one-way. This way they can get modern tech and stuff (and have video calls with Earth while the Stargate is open), but they’re still decently cut off. (Also, food and stuff are no longer an issue as the SGC can simply send packages through whenever the dial the gate.) This does also allow some new cast members as long as the have a sufficiently compelling “go on a one way trip” story. Maybe one of them even got special dispensation to bring their cat.

If by “WRECK” you mean “improve” yes.

Meanwhile I’m here on Wayland because it does things that x11 doesn’t.

My OS came with an officially packed (by Mozilla) non LTS version of Firefox that gets regular version upgrades.

They don’t in general, but things that do heavily detailed graphics work (like your compositor or browser) or lots of cryptography work on the CPU can get a bit more out of those newer instructions than many other programs.

Very approximately, things that Gentoo offers prebuilt versions of because compiling them is so resource intensive are often the things that can get the best benefit out of your architecture variant. (Not singling out Gentoo here as an example of “doing it badly” - they do the sensible thing by providing these prebuilt binaries, but in some ways it defeats the purpose of optimised source distributions.)

It’s a Hard Problem™ to solve.

Let’s not make people get up before sunrise.

Services I know that have both HTTPS and SSH access have seen all sorts of weird stuff seemingly related to LLM bot scraping over the past few months. Enough to bring down some git servers.

If you’re doing this intentionally or if your dialect has this different I’d love to know (I love learning about different dialects of English), but as far as i’m aware I think you mean “slippers.”

In my dialect at least…

Sleepers:

Slippers:

I solved this by using Linux anyway and being way more productive than other folks.

Look I don’t have heat in the winter so I compile Firefox for various processors to keep my bedroom warm okay?

The irony is that big things like Firefox can get the most advantages from building for your specific CPU variant, especially if you use them frequently.

Maybe something like OpenStack?

Everything on the system, including the desktop, kernel, and CUPS, can be installed by snap.

Oh look at these people who don’t even have butter bells!

Turns out hosting a bunch of files is very cheap.

Yummy!