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"Rust in the core of NetSD is probably a non-starter," says long-time NetBSD developer. "Keeping Rust working is quite a bit of work."The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-lifetime-subscriptionMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Connor McLaughlin, the developer of Duckstation, a popular Playstation emulator, calls NixOS and Arch Linux "hostile package environments", and blocks building for those Linux distributions.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Steven Sinofsky, Richard Branson, and Steve Ballmer. All in the Epstein Files... but for different reasons. Plus: The BASH manual. Seriously. X Thread with Screenshots: More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Keynote for FOSDEM 2026, the largest Open Source Conference, declared they are "becoming more political, for obvious reasons," & "the time to be nice about a few things is finally over."More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

From June of 2025, hackers working with the Chinese government utilized the Notepad++ update system to run code on users computers.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

ReactOS, the open source attempt to build a Windows 2000 compatible system, turns 30. Which, coincidentally, his how many times it crashed on me in the last hour.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The XCE Desktop Environment plans to spend most of their donated funds to throw out their well tested X11 backend, in favor of a non-existent Wayland compositor written in Rust. Leftists cheer.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The core developer of one of the most critical components of Bazzite has been banned for secret "Code of Conduct violations" following a mob campaign accusing him of "transphobic slurs".More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

It only took a third of century, but the Linux Kernel finally has a continuity plan for if / when Linus Torvalds goes away.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The massive, 70%+ off Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscriptions deal ends after January 31st. With no plans to offer this deal again. So. You know. Get to the choppah!$89 Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscriptions:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/89-lifetime-lunduke-journal-subscriptions-c1bMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

gnomed - verb - When installing one piece of software results in the forced install of an entire Desktop Environment.Example: "I installed a text editor, then my whole system got GNOMED!"More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

GhostBSD Lead says, "We will release the next release of GhostBSD with XLibre due to the upcoming Xorg rebase."More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The KDE project has removed code to support FreeBSD in their login manager saying, "We rely on systemd/logind, so FreeBSD is not supported."More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Xorg, which has a stated goal of killing itself, plans to re-base on 2 year old code in order to avoid code from XLibre developer. Plus: Moving from "Master" to "Main" branch naming.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

A 61 year old white man was fired from IBM, yet "a black woman with identical territory, quota, and performance" was not. Plus: IBM & Red Hat are settling lawsuits behind the scenes.The IBM / Red Hat Leaks: What we've learned so far:https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5515346/the-ibm-red-hat-leaks-what-weve-learned-so-far$89 Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscriptions all January:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/89-lifetime-lunduke-journal-subscriptions-c1bMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe