This latest Linux drama is why I run illumos
It's almost like by virtue of being unpopular it doesn't devolve into the Jerry Springer show

@PurpCat What latest Linux drama?

@xianc78 Linus Torvalds and pals having a melty over Russian devs and is calling anyone who thinks he's having a normal one Russian trolls

Basically the second round of his meltdown at a poastie
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

@PurpCat @xianc78 >UPDATE: When asked whether Linus Torvalds was under any sort of NDA around this, he responded:

>"No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them."

it's over

@nach @PurpCat
>it's over
No, it's not. Linux is still usable and you don't have to give the Linux Foundation any money. I think there would be enough people to maintain a stable fork if worse comes to worst.

None of the other options (BSD, illumos, etc) can realistically run on anything other than the exact old ThinkPad model that the contributors use.

@xianc78 @nach illumos is more "if it's a server it works if it's a desktop good luck"

@PurpCat @nach I want an actual desktop operating system, not some server or mainframe OS pretending to be one. Haiku seems like the perfect choice for me, but it needs more supported hardware and software for me to use it as a daily driver.