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The time has come for another rethink of where the effort is
getting directed. I closed down the Quirky project as the effort was
becoming too dispersed. The same thing is happening with the port of
OpenEmbedded perhaps.
And then there is the forum. I haven't been reading it. If I can't do
it justice to be regularly reading it and responding to posts, then it
should not continue. So it hasn't, this is now read-only:
This thread in the Puppy Forum continues:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109958
Regarding the OE port, yeah it is nice to have control of the entire
cycle, from compiling source packages to deploying a final distro,
however, a lot of work went into the Thud upgrade, and I am not happy
with the result.
So, the OE port might get sidelined. Continue with the "Pyro" series
of the OE port, probably for another couple of years. But the next step
might be to return to building EASYOS from Slackware binary packages.
Slackware is one of the few distros that meets my criteria, such as
no systemd, minimal messing around with the original package (directory
layout, package splitting, config files, etc.) -- basically, Slackware
is plain-vanilla-Linux, conservative in every respect.
Unfortunately, Patrick, the main guy developing Slackware, has had his
own share of issues the last couple of years, and the next release of
Slackware is slipping away.
Talking about slipping away, the SeaMonkey developers are having
problems also. The Firefox developers are obviously on a trip,
introducing new requirements for compiling, such as Rust and LLVM, and
other architectural changes. There were even rumblings about forking SM,
but that won't happen, as their developer numbers can't maintain such a
fork, most likely anyway.
For me, it is going to become increasingly difficult to compile Firefox, and SM if it goes down the same route.
I don't want to get started on Rust... they claim that it is a
systems development language. Ha ha, what a laugh. There are those of us
who know what a systems development language really is, it is called C,
or even ASM.
What these Rust-lovers really love, is the conveniences that rust
brings, such as automatic cleaning up of open streams, and handling of
concurrency, things that you have to do manually in C.
For a bit of coding convenience, they are embracing a monster.
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