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- linux@lemmy.ml
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I wish people would get in the habit of posting the original source of the news instead of an article about the original source. This article doesn’t add any useful commentary or insight beyond what is already stated in the original post.
If I was the tyrant king of Lemmy I would force all communities to do this
Tbf, the article author links the original source right at the start lol
One thing you’ll learn on Lemmy is that they don’t want to give low effort articles the clicks.
I so so love open source. “We are all in competition with each other. Let’s pool our resources and share knowledge to make us all better.”
Right? Can you imagine this headline except it says MS, Google, and Apple are going to move toward a common kernel?
This is excellent news! I know that Nobara and PikaOS were already code sharing for some stuff like the driver manager, so I’m happy to see them deepen that bond and bring others aboard.
OGC?
I thought we settled that it’s not a good acronym…
They knew what they were doing 😏
£14,000 to find a way to sneak it in.
Instead of each distro maintaining separate patches and fragmented hardware support, improvements can now be shared across the entire ecosystem
Pardon my ignorance but why is a “collective” necessary for this? Is this not something they could have already been doing unofficially?
I think the main difference is before they would go
kernel patch -> own repo -> (own distro and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros
now they’re gonna go
kernel patch -> OGC repo -> (OGC distros and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros
and that means there will be way more code reviewers and testers (and more automated testing?) happening before release
and these things being merged together earlier also makes it easier, especially since I imagine the mainline Linux is pretty slow to accept gaming-related patches
Yes, but this formalizes things, possibly putting in place policies and SOPs and uniformly agreed upon structures
Not to mention, depending on the legal structure, tax benefits and cash pooling and other financial benefits
Yes, but now they can use it to dodge taxes while doing so /s
