You could try Guix (either standalone or Guix system). You can have a immutable profile, an immutable home environment with centralized configuration and much more!

The ability of having immutable environment and dotfile configurations is amazing.

reboot is linked (aliased) to your init program. In the case you are using systemd then it’s equivalent to systemctl reboot.

reboot is generic and calls whatever init program you use.

There are more than one init. Like for example GNU Shepherd.

Free Software*

Vscode is malware

Shepard? Do you mean Shepherd?

You should probably check out Guile.

Damn who imagined that gaming would be the topic that made the FOSS OSes relevant. I don’t agree on all that steam does but, they really nail it with the Steam deck and Steam Os.

A lot of people have steam deck and it helps realize that GNU/Linux is an amazing OS.

On the other hand Microsoft and Apple are doing their best to try to give more reasons to switch.

Lunix kernel? That’s new.

BSD licence allowed to work with the AT&T licence which at the end generated all the drama. Unix wars.

Again BSD is great if you don’t care about what will happen with your code.

Yeah the Android point doesn’t have any sense, that’s right.

Apple shares the code of the parts they want. Since it’s not a copyleft licence, then they can still ship you a version of Darwin + privative code as your macOs without sharing the entire code. So you end running kind of Frankenstein program with parts you don’t know what they do.

AOSP is not a great licence because it allows Google benefit from contributions, but then it has tons of privative software on top. So basically contributing to the AOSP means that you improve the code that later it’s used in combination with privative one.

My point is that libre source code should enforce that derivations of it stay libre. Otherwise you are working for free for companies that don’t care about the users.

Hey for companies is a good point. The best system for them is open source. It makes sense for them to use it. And open source is much better than just privative.

From the point of view of the individual user and developer is not that great. It kind of hooks you in because it has open source parts, but you are probably unaware of all the closed source stuff that runs in combination with it.

I get the open source point, but I don’t find it fair at the long term for the individual developer and user.

Over the years I’ve become convinced that the BSD license is great for code you don’t care about. I’ll use it myself. If there’s a library routine that I just want to say ‘hey, this is useful to anybody and I’m not going to maintain this,’ I’ll put it under the BSD license.

Linus Torvals at LinuxCon 2016

GNU Hurd didn’t take a good path of development following MACH design. But I still think GNU Hurd is the kernel of the future. Probably the Next generation Hurd. Just because GNU MACH and Hurd present very convoluted designs.

A kernel that performs most of their activities in user space and that it is truly modular looks very promising for the kind of systems we have nowadays and in the future.

Someone has to make the change, or we will stagnate in cumbersome and up featured systems.

Clang and the LLVM with BSD like licences so we can get the 80’s suing experience of UNIX yet again.

It’s impressive how many people in the FOSS community hate GNU. Even to the point of creating OSes without GNU in it. Working for free for companies just to get their contributions stolen or expunged.

Apple loves Open Source, they can stole it as they like, like they did with Darwin (a derivation of XNU). Everything is open until we no longer want to, and you don’t have any right to desist such actions. This sounds like a dream for them.

Google loves Open Source, they can build an spyware, ad vending machine, DRM platform that is hosted in almost any IOT machine. This is Android.

The community has to realize that if you care about your software you have to ENFORCE the freedom of it.

The are entire projects just to liberate android from google. That’s is all fault of the open source licence.

There are quite a lot of projects which exist to liberate software projects that have been taken hostage. This is no sense.

Most of the IOT devices are presenting paywall features thanks to Android: cars, fridges, TVs, etc. What is next?

No Guix System gang?

Yeah AGPLv3 is the best if it’s going to be hosted as a service. Which a lot of web services do. Good point.

Ladybird is licences under BSD-clause 2. Which allows privatization of the code.

IMO a web browser should be GPLv3, specially to not allow DRM bullshit in the browser.

Yeah not a good licence at all for an independent browser. Idk if Servo MPL is a good license either. Do you know of any web browser that is GPL?

Coreboot does not remove IME. Libreboot (a coreboot distro) does. Or neuter it.

Oh is it happening again? FFS. What war? Who are fighting in this war? Empress vs. ?

Unix_surrealism is joining with the systemd story!!! No fucking way!

Guix is amazing.

I love one of the clauses of gplv3 where if a user does not follow the gpl you may deny them their ability to use it forever.

Would be funny to strike Nintendo with that. Or any other company that likes suing people work.