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Distributions and Operating Systems: Winux QNX, and Debian
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Linuxiac ☛ Winux Tries to Mimic backdoored Windows While Staying Fully Linux
Ubuntu-based Winux joins the GNU/Linux ecosystem by mimicking the backdoored Windows experience, but is imitation the best path?
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Linuxiac ☛ QNX Introduces a Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
QNX, a real-time operating system for embedded systems, has released the initial version of its Self-Hosted Developer Desktop, introducing a native development environment that runs directly on QNX 8.0. The new setup is designed to eliminate the long-standing reliance on cross-compilation by enabling developers to build and test software entirely within QNX.
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University of Toronto ☛ Why Debian and RPM (source) packages are complicated
A commentator on my early notes on dgit mentioned that they found packaging in Debian overly complicated (and I think perhaps RPMs as well) and would rather build and ship a container. On the one hand, this is in a way fair; my impression is that the process of specifying and building a container is rather easier than for source packages. On the other hand, Debian and RPM source packages are complicated for good reasons.