Comrade Rain

Marxist-Leninist (relatively novice) with an umbrella ☔

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  • Apparently they have just been removed from the MAINTAINERS file for now but it is not yet known if this will have any implications for their ability to send patches for inclusion in the kernel. If the latter proves to be the case, some of the drivers might end up unmaintained until another person gains enough trust to become a maintainer. This will surely affect support for the Russian BAIKAL processors, for example.

    Apparently the removed contributors can return only if they provide some sort of “documentation” (not specified which though). They can still work on the kernel, but now they are not able to directly merge changes into the codebase, they can only send patches which may or may not be accepted. Or they could organise and create an independent Linux kernel fork which they would have to keep up to date by merging code from the upstream.

    This much I understood from the news and comments.


  • This is the list of contributors that got removed according to a popular russian Linux web community.

    • Abylay Ospan *@netup.ru, drivers for DVB-systems NETUP PCI, HELENE, ASCOT2E, HORUS3A, LNBH25 & CXD2841ER
    • Alexander Shiyan *@mail.ru, port for ARM/CIRRUS LOGIC CLPS711X
    • Dmitry Kozlov *@mail.ru, PPTP and GRE DEMULTIPLEXER drivers
    • Dmitry Rokosov *@sberdevices.ru, EMSENSING MICROSYSTEMS MSA311 driver
    • Evgeniy Dushistov *@mail.ru, UFS file system
    • Ivan Kokshaysky *@jurassic.park.msu.ru, Alpha architecture loty
    • Nikita Travkin *@trvn.ru, ACER ASPIRE 1 controller drivrer
    • Serge Semin *@gmail.com, BAIKAL-T1 platform, base drivers for MIPS systems, drivers for BAIKAL-T1 PVT, DESIGNWARE EDMA CORE IP, LIBATA SATA AHCI SYNOPSYS DWC CONTROLLER, NTB IDT, SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE APB GPIO, SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE APB SSI
    • Sergey Kozlov *@netup.ru, drivers for DVB-systems NETUP PCI, ASCOT2E, HORUS3A, LNBH25 и& CXD2841ER
    • Sergey Shtylyov *@omp.ru, drivers for LIBATA PATA, RENESAS R-CAR SATA, RENESAS SUPERH ETHERNET & RENESAS ETHERNET AVB
    • Vladimir Georgiev *@metrotek.ru, MICROCHIP POLARFIRE FPGA driver

  • I second on KDE but don’t really know about GNOME since it is has a radically different paradigm and is also hard to customize (extensions, tweaks, etc.). Not saying that in a bad way though.

    Never used an immutable district but sounds like a good recommendation if you have disk space to spare.

    I will also be happy to assist!



  • Comrade RaintoXfce@lemmy.mlXfce first impressions
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    30 days ago

    In general Ubuntu or Linux Mint is frankly a better choice for someone migrating from Windows because they are much more polished with the ordinary non-power-user in mind. Such rough edges as you describe stem from certain design choices (or lack of) on the part of distributions.

    I could especially recommend Kubuntu because KDE is arguably the most user-friendly and featureful desktop out there. It would be a less frustrating switch than an Arch based system with Xfce. Puppy Linux and Q4OS are also nice choices for older machines.



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    1 month ago

    9/11/2001

    “What? The twin towers have already been destroyed? Is it November the 9th? Oh, it must be one of those pesky european time maschines that got month and day backwards.”












  • Comrade Raintotechnology@hexbear.netNoScript is revelatory
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    I thought Umatrix was unmaintained?

    Anyway, I used to use it till a few years ago. It’s a really powerful extension, but it breaks some sites with the default settings and it can get tedious reenabling scripts one by one to find the bare working minimum. I have since switched to uBlock of the same developer and it seems to me an adequate compromise between privacy, better performance and working sites.

    Unfortunately the modern web has turned into tihs so you can’t even browse without an ad blocker anymore.