MIT - only good for tiny weekend projects like Xorg, Wayland, Mesa, Godot, Jenkins, MUSL, Node.js, Angular, Vue.js, React, Rust, Julia, F#, Rails, PyPy, Redox, and the Haiku Operating System.
AGPL - good for serious projects that you want to be super successful. Widely used software that started off as AGPL includes……….
uhh……..wait…….ummm…….
lemmy and Mastadon I guess?
Tar is not a package manager, it is just a packaging format. AppImage has the same problem.
Flatpak is a bit of a crappy package manager but at least it is one. And, due to its use of container technology, it allows the same packages to run on any Linux kernel (any Linux distro). That is pretty useful.
Of the other package managers, apk 3 is my favourite but the only distro that uses it is Chimera Linux. Pacman is good. dnf / RPM is ok. apt / deb is in last place for me. The recent Ubuntu 25.04 launch snafu illustrates some of the problems with apt. The first Linus Tech Tips Linux challenge really highlighted the dangers of apt.
I only used snap briefly but instantly hated it. Fstab was a mess. It was slow. It was proprietary. I fled before I could form an educated opinion.
Flatpak is a common way to install something newer than you can get in your repo. If you are using apt in Debian Stable, Flatpak is a miracle. This is even the reason Ubuntu installs Firefox as a snap (their version of Flatpak).
The comment “Canada has no felons” likely refers to the fact that a “felony” is a US concept. In Canada, the equivalent to a felony is indictable offence and a Canadian “felon” is an indicted criminal.
Amazing! Thank you for diagnosing this issue for the rest of us.
This is exactly why Open Source works and why even huge companies cannot keep up with Open Source software once it has taken hold. The users drive it forward in a way that money alone cannot match.
Seems pretty clear that we are heading into an alliance between the Liberals and the Bloc. They align pretty well on issues outside of Quebec.
If the Liberals allow their Quebec ridings to support Quebec issues that the Bloc cares about, the Bloc will probably continue to support the Liberals more generally.
Unless the Bloc joins a non-confidence against the Liberals, the Liberals can effectively govern as if they had a majority.
And it will take 3 parties to gang up on the libs to force non-confidence. That means BOTH the NDP and the Bloc joining with the Conservatives. How likely does that seem? Even the Conservatives and Bloc together do not have the votes. The NDP sure doesn’t.
As of now, the Liberals only need 3 votes from outside the party on any given issue. On most issues, they should have little trouble overcoming the Conservative opposition.
The NDP cannot force anything. They are not even an official party.
Even if the NDP and Conservatives Team up, they cannot force non-confidence without support from the Bloc.
The liberals and the Bloc are the two parties with power right now. What the liberals have to do is act like the liberals in Quebec are pseudo Bloc MPs. That will keep the Bloc on their side and effectively allow them to act like they have a majority otherwise.
The NVIDIA problems are almost entirely legacy at this point. Unless you are using something that ships ancient packages (looking at you Debian Stable), you should be fine.
MIT - only good for tiny weekend projects like Xorg, Wayland, Mesa, Godot, Jenkins, MUSL, Node.js, Angular, Vue.js, React, Rust, Julia, F#, Rails, PyPy, Redox, and the Haiku Operating System.
AGPL - good for serious projects that you want to be super successful. Widely used software that started off as AGPL includes………. uhh……..wait…….ummm……. lemmy and Mastadon I guess?